The UK Department for International Development on Wednesday in Abuja
said it would re-train 66,000 primary and junior secondary school
teachers through its Teacher Development Programme Project.
The DFID Programme Director, John Shatton, said this when he paid a
visit to the Registrar of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria,
Prof. Addison Mark-Wokocha.
Shatton said the programme would run for a period of six years.
He said: “This new project is aimed at supporting the Federal
Government of Nigeria in at least six states to improve the skills of
teachers in core curriculum subjects.
“These are in Mathematics, Science and Technology and English using a
combination of both pre-service and in-service interventions.”
Shatton, who led a team of four to TRCN, noted that the new project
would build on and support all admirable works on teachers’ training
already under way.
He said that the programme would also reinforce and bring in new
innovative training methods which had been proved reliable in other
countries.
Shatton added that the intended impact of the programme was to improve
student’s learning.
“This can only be achieved through the outcome of creating more
effective teachers,” he noted.
In his response, Wokocha commended the UK DFID for its partnership on
teachers’ training programme.
He assured UK DFID that TRCN would partner with it on the new ‘Teacher
Development Project.’
He said: “Students’ achievement is the predictor of teachers’ quality.
“Instead of quarrelling with students over mass failures in major
exams in the country, the teachers should be taken up on this.”
The registrar, however, charged DFID to join in the call on employers
of teachers to ensure that teachers participated in the Continuing
Development Programmes being organised by TRCN and other relevant
agencies.
He said that partnership with relevant agencies was necessary in
accordance with TRCN’s major aim of restoring the lost glory of the
nation’s education system.
The registrar said that could be achieved through enhanced teacher quality.
Wokocha added that the council’s primary area of concern was to do
everything within its capacity to ensure that teachers got both
pedagogical and ICT skills.
“This is in the interest of the teachers themselves, the students and
the nation at large,” he said.
Wokocha said the council had championed series of Continuing
Development Programmes for the nation’s teachers with the aim of
exposing them to the rudiments of teachers’ education.
He said: “Our mission is to ensure teacher excellence and
professionalism at all levels of the nation’s education system through
effective registration and licencing of teachers.
“So TRCN is the right point of call when it comes to Teachers’
Development Programme.”
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