Education Minister tasks teachers on performance
The Minister of Education Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’I has challenged the performance of both primary and Junior Secondary School Teachers urging them to give their best in the ongoing nationwide capacity building workshops for primary and junior secondary school teachers.
The Minister said this at the opening ceremony of the Capacity Building Workshops for Primary and Secondary School Teachers at the Event Centre in Lagos.
Rufai said, “I want to urge the participants to see this workshop as an opportunity to better their teaching career. The programme will help the participants to know more about the modern day teaching and learning which will help our teachers to impact knowledge to our children in the classroom.”
She noted that the Federal Government has pledged to ensure improvement of quality teaching and learning at all levels of education.
Earlier, the Federal Ministry of Education in conjunction with the National Teacher’s Institute, NTI, Kaduna, have discreetly selected teachers from Nigerian universities and Teacher training institute to train 40,000 primary and secondary school teachers on current strategies and techniques of teaching.
The primary school teachers will be trained on language Communication Skills, Effective Classroom Management Skills, Basic Teaching Methods and Information and Communication Technology while their junior secondary school counterpart will be trained on the four core subjects such as English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Basic Science and Basic Technology.
Commenting, Lagos state Commissioner for Education, Mrs Olayinka Oladunjoye assured that Lagos state government will give all necessary assistance to the state teachers to excel in their chosen career.
