TESCOM trains 3,000 N-Power teachers in Ogun

Over 3000 N-Power Teachers in Ogun State have been trained on basic rudiment of teaching methodology needed to sustain the standard of effective teaching and learning in line with the standard of education in the State.

This was disclosed by the state Chairman, Teaching Service Commission, TESCOM, Mrs Olabosipo Ogunsan, at the opening of a 2-day training workshop with the theme: “Integrating Professionalism into Classrooms in Ogun State Public Secondary Schools”, held at the Lisabi Grammar School, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.

The TESCOM boss said the training became imperative in order to integrate the new set of intended classroom teachers to the basic knowledge, skills and values set out to impart and align them with teaching professionalism for better results.

She said, “Permit me to state that teaching is a highly rated profession and the practitioners should be well equipped strategically.

Intending teachers should always have it at the back of their mind that the profession is not for the dregs and the mission of the State Government is to ensure a pragmatic approach to teaching and learning process, which has indeed underscored professional development that includes high-quality content tailored to the needs of students as well as to build the capacity of our teachers.”

Ogunsan underscored the essence of the training that covered the cognitive, affective and the psychomotor domains of learning so as to achieve effective classroom management, psychology of learning and child development, ethics and values as well as language and reading.

She added that the N- Power Teachers were employed and posted to Public Scondary Schools in the state under the Federal Government employment generation programme tagged “N-POWER TEACH”, saying that the programme aimed at bridging the gap of unemployment among our teeming youths.

“I must used this opportunity to appreciate the President Mohammed Buhari-led administration for the conceptualization of this programme which is aimed at bridging the gap of unemployment among our teeming youths in the country,” she said further.

In their separate remarks, President, All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools, ANCOPSS, Ebenezer Ogundele and his counterpart from Academic Staff Union of Senior Secondary Schools, ASUSS, Mr Akeem Lasisi said it behoves on teachers to give back to the society by imparting good and purposeful knowledge to the students, urging the N-Power Teachers to see the exercise as an integral purpose of relating ethical, methodological and classroom control over the students.