The National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) has organised a training programme for teachers in the two core subjects in Ilorin, Kwara State.
The 116 participants at the training programme were drawn from the north- central states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
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Kwara State governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq who was represented by the commissioner for education and human capital development, Hajiya Saadatu Modibbo- Kawu declared the training programme open.
In his welcome address, the executive secretary of NSSEC, Prof Benjamin Abakpa, said the commission was kicking off the first edition of reskilling of teachers after pilot testing of the manuals on difficult concepts in English Language and Mathematics with teachers from selected public and private schools in FCT.
“This workshop becomes imperative because of the poor performance of learners, most especially in the two core subjects. The essence of the workshop is to identify the difficult concept in English Language and Mathematics and proffer possible pedagogical skills to tackle the menace facing the learners and take them from not knowing to solving equations and putting tenses together correctly,” he said.
In her goodwill message, the chairman of NSSEC, Ambassador Nimota Akanbi, noted that the performance of students in English Language and Mathematics in the external examinations has been consistently poor.
She charged the resource persons at the training programme to simplify the teaching methods of the two core subjects for the teachers who will in turn do the same for their students.
Akanbi praised Governor AbdulRazaq for his commitment to training and retraining of teachers in the state.
Declaring the programme open, Governor AbdulRazaq thanked the commission for choosing Kwara as the host of the training programme.
He said the state had invested a lot of resources on the education sector in the state, especially on training and retraining of teachers.
The governor noted that the novel KwaraLEARN scheme has impacted greatly on teaching and learning in schools in the state.