In addition to the accredited CPD Service Providers, there shall be accredited and certified facilitators who shall register with an identified service provider or the National Teaching Council.
The duties of these facilitators shall be mainly to lead discussions as well as the transfer of skills and knowledge during CPD programme. There shall be Category “A” facilitators (Associate facilitators AF)and Category “B” referred to as; and Independent Facilitator (IF)
Associate facilitator
An Associate facilitator is the kind of facilitator who is registered by Service Providers to solely assist such an attached accredited service provider. The A2F shall render service(s) to only the attached Service Provider that sought accreditation for the said facilitator.
Requirements:
The service provider on behalf of any person who wishes to be registered as an associate facilitator shall provide the following requirements for accreditation and certification:
i. Full name of the proposed facilitator ii.Valid address iii. Academic and professional qualifications iv. Valid certificates. v. Evidence of not less than 5 years of working experience. vi.Evidence of Training History of training vii. Brief report on facilitation competences with relevant certificates viii.Proficiency in Microsoft office suit.
An Independent Facilitator is the kind of facilitator who is registered directly with the National Teaching Council (NTC) and renders services to any service provider that needs the expertise of such a facilitator.
Requirements:
Full name of the proposed facilitator
Valid address
Academic and professional qualifications
Valid certificates.
Evidence of not less than 5 years of working experience.
Facilitators will be required to pay 50% of their registration fee as an annual subscription fee to renew their status. Failure to renew the accreditation status within three months of expiration is considered as fresh registration and shall attract payment of registration fee at that time.
Training
There shall be a mandatory orientation workshop for AF and A2F every six months.
These workshops would be delivered through the interpersonal interface or virtual mode. The training contents shall base on reports compiled from monitoring and evaluation reports of accredited PD programme organized within a six (6) month period.
Participants will be required to register as paid participants for the training and failure to comply attracts withdrawal of accreditation.
In addition to this mandatory training, the National Teaching Council shall, from time to time advertise to the general public for interested persons to register and be trained as CPD programs facilitators.
Illegalities
It is an offence for:
An organization to engage the services of a non-accredited facilitator
An organization to engage the services of persons with an invalid facilitator status
An individual to facilitate at PD sessions without accreditation
An individual to facilitate with an invalid accreditation status
Publicity
Persons certified by NTC as accredited facilitators shall have their names published on NTC portal. Teachers who attain facilitators’ status shall have additional points recorded on the portal for any training they facilitate.
