Wednesday, 20 January 2016

A'IBOM GOVERNMENT SHARPEN TEACHERS’ SKILL WITH CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP



The relevance of education cannot be over emphasized. In fact, no country would succeed without educating its people. No country in the world can harness the full potentials of its people without committing them to standard education that is capable of making them educated to that extent.

Education is the most potent vehicle for the development and empowerment of an individual, economic, political, social development, national growth and enthronement of peace. Societies of the world heavily rely on their human resources for the development in most of the spheres of human endeavour.

In Akwa Ibom State, the government is investing heavily in the education of its citizens. Worthy of note is the just concluded Capacity Building Workshop for Principals and Teachers of Public Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State.

The workshop, jointly organized by the Ministry of Education and the Office of Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on the Education Monitoring, with funding from Akwa Ibom State Government, was aimed at revitalizing the capacity of practicing teachers in the Public School System for effective educational delivery to our children in Secondary Schools.

It was carefully planned to cover eight important areas in the school curriculum including effective classroom communication, feedback and assessment methodologies, modern teaching methods, understanding the structures of the new curriculum, lesson preparation and delivery plan, as well as classroom management and teachers effectiveness. There was also a session to address work ethics and productivity in the public service.

In her address of welcome, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Education Monitoring, Mrs. Idongesit Etiebet commended the State Government’s very sensitive, ever-ready response towards addressing problems in the Education Sector.

She also commended the efforts of Rt. Hon. (Elder) Aniekan Akpan, who as the Honorable Commissioner saddled to oversee the affairs of Education has been able to strengthen and re-position the Education Sector for the benefit of the Akwa Ibom people.

She noted that education is the topmost priority of the Udom Emmanuel-led administration and that teachers are dearest to the Governor’s heart and he believes that once the capacity of our teachers are built, the lives of pupils and the entire Akwa Ibom people will be improved.

She however implored stakeholders in the educational sector to reciprocate the Governor’s kind gesture by showing him that they also believe in him.

Highpoint of the event was the pledge by the teachers to cooperate with the State Government to provide Qualitative Education as enunciated in the on-going Free and Compulsory Education Programme.

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