Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) with the support of the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), is set to train 45,000 teachers across 24 states in Nigeria on digital literacy and remote learning.
The Registrar/Chief Executive, TRCN, Josiah Ajiboye, who disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday, said the aim of the training is to bridge the gap created by the outbreak of the pandemic that “severely affected the education system of the country.”
Ajiboye added that the training will empower teachers and school leaders in emergency preparedness and response to provide safe school practice including COVID-19 and build resilience in teaching -learning process against future shocks.
He said, “The training is also aimed at providing capacity development opportunities to teachers and school leaders in deployment of technology in classrooms, distance learning methods using both online and offline to continue learning.”
The Registrar said 30,000 teachers will be trained in the first batch across 16 focal states to include: Benue, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kebbi, Katsina, Plateau, Taraba and Zamfara. Others are Benue, Enugu, Kaduna and Sokoto States.
The training, according to him, is designed to take place in four segments between February 21 and 26, 2022 with each segment of the training involving 7,500 teachers.
Ajiboye further disclosed that at the completion of the circle of 16 focal States, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has extended the training to additional 15, 000 teachers who will be trained in eight focal States namely, Bayelsa, Delta, Edo, Ekiti, Lagos, Osun, Oyo and Rivers. He added that the additional States will be the 4th phase of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) teacher training programme.
