About 190 primary school teacher undergo training in library management

Mamponteng (Ash), Aug 17, GNA - A total of 190 primary school teachers in the Kwabre district have undergone six-day training in library management under a primary school library project initiated by the Ghana Book Trust (GBT) at Mamponteng.

The training programme, held under the joint auspices of the GBT and the Canadian Organisation for Development through Education (CODE), was to enable teachers to facilitate the effective handling and utilisation of books donated by the two bodies and other agencies aimed at improving the reading and writing skills of primary school pupils. Participants were taken through functions of libraries, cataloguing and classification, theory of knowledge and classification among others.

Mr Robert Kwadwo Amoako, Executive Director of GBT, addressing the training programme, said his outfit in collaboration with other overseas partners namely, Book Aid International, Book for Africa and Sabre Foundation will donate books to build and stock primary school libraries to enhance effective teaching and learning.

He said the GBT launched the first phase of the project in 1999 in the Sekyere East and extended it to Bosomtwe-Atwima-Kwanwoma the following year and then further to Adansi South and Ahafo-Ano South in 2001.

Mr Amoako said the extension of the project to Kwabre this year constituted the second phase which would end in 2008 and it is anticipated that by the time the project ends, another 169 teachers both from private and public schools with a total enrolment population of 3,386 would have been trained.

He therefore, appealed to beneficiary communities and the schools to provide the requisite inputs like chairs, tables and shelves to establish the libraries.

Mr James Osei Yeboah, Deputy Director of Education for Kwabre, commended the two agencies for the project and called for the assistance of the communities to ensure its success.