IN continuation of its drive to enhance the quality of education in schools, the Girls Education Mission International (GEM), has embarked on six day training for schools coordinators and supervisors in Plateau State starting from Monday 22, 2023.
This took place at the Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board (PSUBEB) Model School Shele, Little Rayfield, Jos, the state capital. Facilitators and participants were drawn from the seventeen local government areas.
Declaring the occasion open, the Executive Chairman of the Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board (PSUBEB), Professor Mathew Sule, commended GEM on the wonderful work it has been doing on the Plateau in the area of education and promised to continue to partner technically with the organisation.
Represented by the PSUBEB Permanent Member 1, Chief (Mrs) Sarah Ramadan, the Chairman thanked the TY Danjuma Foundation for supporting this project and called on the participants to have passion and a sense of achievement in the teaching profession for the development of our country.
On his part, the Education Coordinator/ Monitoring and Evaluation Officer of TY Danjuma Foundation, Mr. Terssor Akula, commended GEM for their consistency in ensuring that the programme succeed and disclosed that his organisation has extended its support to GEM to other states in the North Eastern States.
Earlier, the Director Special Education Programme of PSUBEB, Mrs. Martha Mark Tyengong, said, the training was apt considering the unfortunate inability of some teachers these days to use Scheme of Work and prepare Lesson Notes. She commended GEM for taking the bull by the horn to see that lost glory of education was restored.
Also, the representative of the National Universal Basic Education Board, Esther Tella, described education as the bedrock of every society. She thanked GEM and PSUBEB for organising this programme saying, “Education is everybody’s responsibility and I want to advise you to take advantage of this training and replicate it in your respective schools.
Meanwhile, the Executive Director of Girls Education Mission International (GEM), Mrs. Keturah Shammah, thanked TY Danjuma Foundation for the consistent support given to them to be able to achieve this much in the last four years. She described education as a covenant no society could play with because it is the strength of any country.
She disclosed that the Foundation has again given a grant of five years for GEM to extend its project to four Northeast states which will involve Bauchi, Gombe, Yobe and Borno States.
“We are really prepared and always ready to do the work. Well, we are supposed to have started in other states but for the elections knowing that some Commissioners and Appointees will be changed”.
THE NIGERIA STANDARD reports that the “Supervisor’s Capacity Building Workshop” has the theme: “Enhancing Access to Quality Education for Lifelong Learning (QELL)” which is about unpacking of ECCDE and Primary One (1) to six (6) Curriculum into Schemes of Work and Lesson Plans of the Four Care Subjects: (Mathematics, English Studies, Basic Sciences and Social Sciences) respectively.
