Seven thousand one hundred and sixty nine (7,169) primary and junior secondary schools teachers in Borno State have been trained by the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, following a request by Governor Kashim Shettima.
The Shettima administration is engaged in massive building of modern schools and remodeling of existing across Borno State.
Many of the school projects have been completed while others which are ongoing have reached an advanced stage.
The intervention by USAID came through the Agency’s Education Crisis Response Project (ECR) led by the Project’s Director, Ayo Oladini.
Oladini yesterday visited Governor Shettima to give update on successes recorded by his team in complementing the efforts of the State Government.
The Governor met the USAID team in his office at the Government House in Maiduguri, capital of Borno State.
In attendance was Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) deputy chairman as well as Commissioner for Education, Musa Inuwa Kubo and other state officials who monitored the implementation.
Shettima was informed that the USAID-Education Crisis Response project has concluded the training of 7,169 primary school teachers on healing classroom and pupils-centered teaching methodologies in five project local government areas – Biu, Jere, Kaga, Konduga and Maiduguri metropolitan council.
“The USAID project in Borno State has so far enrolled 15,197 out of school IDPs children/youth accessing basic education in 304 project-supported non-formal learning centres, trained 7,169 primary school teachers in the five focal on providing education in conflict and crisis environment”, the visiting officials told Shettima.
“So also, the project engaged 30 Local Government education authority officials as mentor teachers to improve the quality of infrastructural delivery through coaching and mentoring of the teachers (learning facilitators), trained, and deployed 130 monitoring facilitators to use CreativeMapper for data collection and management of 304 learning centres.”
In his remark, Governor Shettima thanked USAID and expressed happiness that his request was implemented.
“I look forward to more partnership in the area developing the capacity of teachers to correspond with my administration’s visible massive infrastructures on basic education”, he said.
Meanwhile, Borno State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) is adopting some aspects in USAID’s training manual in order to cover more primary school teachers in conflict locations.
The Education Crisis Response project, a 3-year USAID-funded project implemented in Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe and Yobe States and currently providing basic literacy program for 47,722 children and youths across Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe and Yobe states began on October 4, 2016.
The figure comprises of 37,069 children/youth enrolled in 731 non-formal learning centers and 10,653 learners in formal schools in the project states.
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