Ekiti SUBEB trains 12,600 teachers in six months

By Ayo Fadimu

Ekiti  State Universal Basic Education Board  (SUBEB) has trained over 12,600 teachers, head teachers and other personnel of the board in  the last quarter of 2020 and the  first quarter of  this year(2021).

The Executive Chairman, Ekiti  SUBEB, Prof Femi Akinwumi  who made this known in Ado-Ekiti while declaring open  a 5- Day training programme  for Early Childhood Education Caregivers  in the state explained that personnel trained on modern teaching methodology and other ways of improving service delivery in public schools in the state  during the period include  10,762 teachers of public primary and secondary schools, 700 newly recruited teachers, 908 Head teachers,   202 Quality Assurance & School Support Officers and 28  members  of the SUBEB Management.

According to  him, “Teachers and other personnel critical to quality service delivery in the Basic Education sector in the State were exposed to  trainings on a wide range  of  topics  including; 21st century teaching methodologies, school safety,  Digital Literacy,  Jolly Phonics, School Based Model Training  as well as Leadership and Strategic Management in the COVID-19 Era.”

While stressing that the training was a manifestation of the harmonious working relationship between  Ekiti SUBEB and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC),  Akinwumi  commended the Administration of Governor Kayode Fayemi for paying all outstanding UBEC Counterpart funds for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020  totaling over N7.3 billion, adding that this  has paved  way for  the ongoing transformation in the basic education sector particularly in the areas of infrastructure and capacity development of staff.

He added that reputable Educational Institutions including the  Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti; Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-ife; Federal University Oye-Ekiti; and the National Institute for Educational Planning and Admistration (NIEPA), Ondo  were involved in the training programmes

The SUBEB Boss urged participants at the training programme to pay rapt attention to the resource persons so that the  programme would have the required multiplier effect  when they get to  their various schools.

Also speaking at the event, the UBEC State Coordinator, Mr Joshua Arema  stressed the importance of training and retraining of teachers in achieving  efficiency   in basic education sector  noting that the present administration in the  State was taking full advantage of UBEC intervention programmes to reposition  basic education in the state.

In a Keynote Address, the Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor of the Bamidele Olumilua University of Education, Science and Technology, Dr O. A. Makinde  stressed the importance of  Pre Primary Education in the educational development of pupils

According to her, as the foundation level of education, the Pre-Primary Classes are quite important to what a pupil grows up to become in life.

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