The Pro Vice-Chancellor (Pro VC) of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Professor Ellis Owusu-Dabo, has stressed the need to adopt a problem-solving-based curriculum for secondary and tertiary institutions in Ghana.
He averred that the use of the curriculum will help condition students for the country’s sustainable growth and development, realising how stagnated the country has become recently.
“Current national situations were clear indications that problem-solving-based curriculum for particularly secondary and tertiary education was needed to meet holistic development demands,” said the Pro VC in a report filed by GNA.
Prof Owusu-Dabo made the call during a four-day retreat and advanced teaching and learning organized for Senior Members of the Colleges of Health Sciences of the University.
According to the educationist, the practical and case-based curriculum will help churn out good and innovative students, well-equipped for problems solving.
He explained that the motive behind the curriculum is to help the faculties to teach in an interactive manner that “engages and stimulates students” to be more active in learning and improve teaching and learning processes among others.
About the retreat
The event held on Monday, October 3, 2022, was on the theme “Quality Education: Implementing Integrated and Case-based Learning”.
It or organised to empower the college to develop and implement an integrated and case-based learning approach in the curriculum within and across its respective schools.
The programme was also meant to help the faculties to integrate content within and across their disciplines as well as create examinations that would challenge their students not only in terms of recall of factual knowledge but also in applying critical thinking skills.
The retreat will have an interactive session that will include how to write high-quality multiple-choice questions, especially using clinical cases, laboratory scenarios or world scenarios for both clinical and non-clinical courses.
The faculties will “practice the concepts learned in the sessions and receive feedback provided by their peers and the facilitators.”
