To bridge the gap created by the loss of teachers during the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno and other states of the North-East, where the terrorists killed some teachers while others fled to different parts of the country, the North East Development Commission ( NEDC ) has begun the training of 100,000 teachers from the six states of the North-East.
Speaking on Tuesday at the beginning of the two-day training of trainers for consultants on the training of teachers in school Management and Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Agriculture (STEMA ), the head of scholarship training and capacity building at NEDC, Khalifa Lawan, said the first phase involves training 200 teachers in each of the six states of the North East.
He said that about 18 consultants are training the 200 teachers, each from the 18 senatorial districts of the Northeast, in the first phase, adding that the programme will take more phases.
He said that the Teachers‘ Upgrade, in collaboration with the National Teachers Institute (NTI), will conduct another phase, comprising 12000 each, for the teachers in the region.
We have an overall target of 100,000 people in the northeast. The 100,000 is split into phases. We are just doing the first phase of training 200 teachers in each of the 18 senatorial districts in six States of the region.
What we are doing here is training the trainers. We want to have the consultants who are supposed to take the training to the senatorial districts and the facilitators who can develop the teaching manual and the state coordination offices we have around the northeast,“ Lawan said.
In her remarks, Prof Alice Musa, a lead consultant in the Department of Social Sciences Education, University of Maiduguri, said the training is for consultants to train teachers in the northeast on how to teach basic science, basic technology, Agriculture, Engineering, and Mathematics.
We have two different models. One is effective teaching of science, basic technology, Agriculture, Engineering and Mathematics. The other is classroom management, guidance and counselling, English language and quality assurance,“ she said.
