The Emmanuel Ivorgba Center is pleased to announce the formalization of a partnership agreement with the Plateau State Ministry of Education to enhance professional development opportunities for public secondary school teachers in Plateau State. Through this partnership, a total of 180 public secondary school teachers will be trained. Thirty (30) teachers selected from the 3 senatorial zones of Plateau State (10 teachers from each zone), will be trained at the initial 3-day TOT Workshop. This will then be followed by the training of 150 teachers (50 teachers per zone).
This Teacher Training program aims to empower teachers in public secondary schools in Plateau State with advanced teaching methodologies, modern pedagogical skills, and essential knowledge to improve overall educational outcomes. This comprehensive training initiative will target both novice and experienced teachers, fostering a community of continuous professional development and skill enhancement.
Objectives of the Teacher Training Program include:
1. Enhance Teaching Skills: Provide teachers with modern teaching techniques and tools to improve classroom effectiveness.
2. Promote Technology Integration: Equip teachers with skills to integrate technology into teaching practices.
3. Develop Pedagogical Strategies: Foster the adoption of innovative teaching strategies to cater to diverse learning needs.
4. Continuous Professional Development: Encourage a culture of ongoing learning and professional growth among teachers.
5. Improve Student Outcomes: Ultimately aim to improve student engagement, learning experiences, and academic achievements.
As the nation’s attention is increasingly focused on the outcomes of education, policymakers have undertaken a wide range of reforms to improve schools, ranging from new standards and tests to redesigned schools, new curricula, and new instructional strategies. One important lesson from these efforts has been the recurrent finding that teachers are the fulcrum that determines whether any school initiative tips toward success or failure. Every aspect of school reform -- the creation of more challenging curriculum, the use of ambitious assessments, the implementation of decentralized management, the invention of new model schools and programs -- depends on highly-skilled teachers.
Reformers have learned that successful programs or curricula cannot be transported from one school to another where teachers do not know how to use them well. Raising graduation requirements has proved to be of little use where there are not enough qualified teachers prepared to teach more advanced subjects well. Mandates for more math and science courses are badly implemented when there are chronic shortages of teachers prepared to teach these subjects. Course content is diluted and more students fail when teachers are not adequately prepared for the new courses and students they must teach. In the final analysis, there are no policies that can improve schools if the people in them are not armed with the knowledge and skills they need.
The Emmanuel Ivorgba Center is an international nonprofit with special consultative status with the United Nations ECOSOC, and dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and hunger, inequality and injustice through investments in education, leadership and youth capacity development. We believe that education is the key to unlocking opportunities and creating a brighter future for generations to come.
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