The Presbyterian Women’s College of Education Aburi, has partnered Sabre the innovative Teacher Education programme in Ghana for an amazing cause.  This is to deliver high quality pre-service education to student teachers in the Early Childhood Education programme thereby helping to improve the quality of Kindergarten Education in Ghana.

This great partnership was initiated in 2019, during the tenure of the former Principal of the College Dr. Harriet Naki Amui.  However due to lack of space for a new edifice, the programme stalled till 2023 when the current Principal Mrs Cynthia Anim decided to release the College’s Demonstration Kindergarten to be refurbished.

 

Interventions by Sabre

They provided:

• Some children’s reading materials to the College
• Set up the College Resource Centre
• Organized a number of knowledge sharing workshops for College tutors who handle ECE courses

The Resource Centre

The following interventions were done to set up the Resource centre:

• The floor was tiled.
• New cupboards were procured and the ceiling was fixed.
• The room was painted
• Teaching Learning Rsources like a TV and a bulletin were provided.
• A printer and Wifi were also provided.

The College premises was also used for organizing most of Sabre’s Training of Trainers Workshops for the Akuapem South District that gave the opportunity for the District officials especially the District ECE coordinator and School Improvement and Support Officers (SISO) to monitor and coach the Demonstration Kindergarten teachers on good practices.

Impact of Sabre’s partnership on the Early Childhood Students

• The resourced Demonstration Kindergarten classrooms teaches students how a model Kindergarten classroom should look like.
• They also received coaching from mentors during STS

ECE students learned the following:

• How to set up Learning Centres.
• Labelling of items in both L1 and L2 during STS.
• Skills for modifying a Kindergarten classroom setting.

The provision of the Resource Centre for the College will expose ECE students to the following:

• Skills for the preparation of Teaching Learning Resources, Peer teaching and demonstration lessons.
• Digital literacy with the use of the TV.
• Use of Wifi to access the internet for research.
• Reading materials and resources that are developmentally appropriate for Kg children.

PWCE looks forward to a great partnership with Sabre.