NEDC Trains 1800 Teachers To Boost North East Academic Status

The North East Development Commission, (NEDC), on Tuesday began the training of 1,800 primary and junior secondary school teachers in the six states of Taraba, Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Borno to help upgrade academic standards in the North East Region of Nigeria.

Chief David Kente, Chairman of the NEDC’s Education Endowment Fund, (EEF), while speaking at the opening ceremony of the five days capacity building training for 300 teachers in Jalingo expressed that, the training was aimed at opening up teachers in the region to new methods of transforming students abilities for learning and ensuring the best out of their classroom experience.

The chairman who was represented by his Special Technical Adviser, Joshua Sangari, explained that the devastation perpetrated by Boko-Haram in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states has mounted pressure on Bauchi, Taraba and Gombe states due to displaced persons, including school children fleeing danger.

He noted that the initiative was borne out of a needs assessments done in the six states of the region as part of ways to tackle insecurity and ignorance among the citizens

Chief Kente also explained that (150) teachers each, were selected from the Primary and Junior secondary school cadre respectively.

“They would be trained in seven modules which include psychosocial support for students as well as technological innovation in facilitating learning.

“The trained teachers would also go further to step down the training to their colleagues in their respective localities.”

Kente also disclosed that the EEF would also build and equip three classroom blocks in each of the 112 local government areas of the six North-East states.

Mrs. Hassan Amen, the lead consultant, told the gathering at the event that the training would lead to better skill development and improved classroom management.