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Experts harp on acquisition of digital skills for teachers

Nigerian teachers have been challenged on the need to equip themselves with the right digital skills and relevant knowledge to enable them to prepare learners for the future of work.

This was the major thrust of the just concluded October edition of Ed-Tech Mondays, an initiative of the Mastercard Foundation in partnership with ccHub Limited.

The October edition of the programme, which attracted experts and professionals in the education and technology subsector, reiterated the need for teachers to acquire Information Technology (IT) skills for the future of work, saying such skills had become imperative at this computer age in order to teach well and impart relevant knowledge to their learners.

The virtual session, which was moderated by Joyce Daniel, a social engineering practitioner, also had educators and experts including Mrs. Victoria Abiola, a Microsoft certified educator and secondary school teacher; Philip Ewuoso, a professional teacher and CISCO certified network administrator; Oluwaseun Kayode, Founder of Schoolinka.

Leading the discussion with the theme: “Enabling Teachers to Lead and Innovate,” Kayode reaffirmed that teachers must begin to see digital skills as an enabler that would assist them in meeting the demands of the 21st century learners, as well as improving the quality of teaching in the country.

 

Founder of Schoolinka, who led the team that leverages on technology to create an ecosystem of highly skilled teachers for schools in Africa, explained further that lack of access to professional development and incentives for training have remained major stumbling blocks to the quality of teaching and outputs in today’s competitive world.

 

“There are teachers, who do not have access to training programmes while some have access but lack the right incentives. If you ask some teachers why they are not trained, the response you get is that how has that affected salary review or promotion.

So, I would say that there is no career structure to professional development in Nigeria,” he said.

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