By Hillary Asemota
With firm commitment to setting pace in the country on the crest of ICT to drive its education sector, the Executive Chairman, Edo Universal Basic Education Board (Edo-SUBEB), Mrs. Ozavize Salami, has charged the 2000 Junior School Teachers on the implementation of its well-intended ICT and digital pedagogy for knowledge transformation and delivery.
Salami, made the disclosure on Monday while addressing the teachers after the 10-day Information Communication Technology (ICT) hands training designed within the framework of the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation (EdoBest).
As part of the state’s human capital development for its MEGA transformation project, she urged the teachers to be dedicated and committed to their duties toward ensuring the implementation of all they have learned during the training programme.
She said: “This is the beginning of the implementation and on-boarding of junior secondary schools into the EdoBEST programme, I therefore urge you to go back to your schools and implement all the things that you learnt here.
While tasking the teachers on positive outlook within the space of a changing environment, the SUBEB boss, added: “Governor Godwin Obaseki is committed to making you all the best among your peers. What is important for us is that as you go back, you are leaving here as an ambassador of SUBEB.”
On downscaling the state investment in its education sector, she said: “We would constantly in touch and communicating with you through your principals, education managers and every other available channel.
“The state will be monitoring and rendering support to you in your schools.
“We are not sending you back alone to implement all that you have learnt here by yourself: People will come to your schools, stay with you in your classrooms and give the necessary support you need to deliver on the mandate that you have been given.”
Earlier, Special Adviser to the Governor on Strategy, Policy, Projects and Performance Management, Mrs. Sarah Esangbedo Ajose-Adeogun, said the training programme for the teachers will help engender the desired change in the state’s education sector.
Ajose-Adeogun noted, “You are the ones molding the future of our great state and we do not take what you are doing for granted. The Edo of our dream will not become a reality without every one of you here.”
“As you go back to your classroom, put the new methods of teaching that you have learnt here into practice to impact on the children. Don’t go back to continue in the old ways; go back and make a difference,” she charged.
