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The principal consultant, Tutelage Educational Consultant Services, Lanre Badru has disclosed that the target of the organisation is to train nothing less than 1million teachers in Nigeria, in line with the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of 2030.
Badru made this disclosure on Thursday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital while speaking with journalists during the ‘2nd More Than Educational International Summit’, a two day summit for training of teacher in both private and public schools.
According to him, ‘Our target is to expose teachers to the global perspectives of education, and to what is done all over the world between the year 2017 that we started to year 2030 in line with the Sustainable Development Goal of the United Nation.
Badru noted that his NGO have trained close to 100,000 teachers so far, and he is optimistic that they might reach the target of training 1million teachers by the year 2025.
“We have decided to make Nigeria our based in order to fulfil the mandate and make sure that the nation education become a global standard education by educating our teachers, Nigerian teachers are still practicing the traditional teaching method and traditional education system is when teachers do not know education process and education business to be channel.”
“Much More Than Just Educational Training is a mandate to exposed many teacher to know, we have chosen to make the difference, and the difference is for our teachers to know more, because when they know more, they will be able to perform better and this will make a difference in our nation.”
He however called on the state governments to embrace and collaborate with the program, saying that this will make difference in educational system of Nigeria as a country.
In his remark, the chairman of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Ibadan North Local Government, Pastor Oladejo Richard, noted that governments are not doing enough when it comes to the issue of training of teachers, adding that NAPPS partnered with the program to ensure that teachers were exposed to knowledge.
“Many teachers nowaday do not know the right thing to do, but we believe that if we can train them, it will enhance learning of our students, training teachers means training our future, because teacher will assist us to train our children who are the leaders of tomorrow, so training them means preparing a better future of our children.”
“It is necessary to do up to date training for teachers, we need to update them and the best way teachers can be updated is by training them regularly because teaching in class is changing everyday, that is why teachers need to change the way they teach in classrooms to a global world.”
One of the participant at the program, Sheriff Apanpa, an administrator from Peace Land Preparatory, Moniya, Ibadan, noted that the program is a right step in the right direction, adding that if the program has been coming up long time ago before now, it would have reduce incompetency in teachers performance thereby increases transmission of knowledge to students in schools across the country.
“Education program is not something you can reap dividence immediately you planted it, government should collaborate because this training will help them to know the actually numbers of teachers to be trained, and it will also assist to boost the performance of students in their academics.”
