The Ivorgba Center Partners Plateau State Ministry of Education

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 360 public secondary school teachers will be trained. Thirty (90) teachers selected from the 3 senatorial zones of Plateau State (30 teachers from each zone), will be trained at the initial 2-day TOT Workshop.

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.

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.

RootedChange helps schools and communities design learning around the real issues they care about and then turn that learning into visible action. We work alongside teachers, students, families, elders, and local leaders to connect classroom learning to food, water, health, climate resilience, safety, and economic opportunity. Instead of arriving with a prepackaged program, we bring a repeatable approach that helps each community name what matters, build learning experiences rooted in local knowledge, and sustain projects that strengthen the community long after a unit ends.