BY MAGNUS EMUJI
DELTA State Commissioner for Primary Education, Dr. Kingsley Ashibogwu, has reiterated the state government commitment towards strengthening the capacity of teachers in the area of curriculum innovations for effective service delivery.
Ashibogwu stated this in Asaba while declaring open a One-day capacity building workshop for Primary School Head Teachers, Local Education Secretaries and Chief Inspectors of Education in Delta North Senatorial District on the theme: Preparing Teachers for Recent Innovations in Primary Schools’ Curriculum.
The commissioner, who was represented at the workshop by the Permanent Secretary in charge of Ministries of Primary and Secondary Education, Mr. Augustine Oghoro, said that the education stakeholders in Delta Central and Delta South Senatorial Districts would also be trained.
He explained that the theme of workshop was apt in underscoring the importance Rt. Hon Sheriff Oborevwori’s led administration places on training and retraining of teachers who were in charge of molding young minds to properly fit into the state’s development.
In a lecture presentation, the lead resource person, Dr. Godwin Edozie stated the report of a Presidential Advisory Committee on curriculum development headed by Emeritus Professor PAI Obanya highlighted fundamental dysfunctions in the educational system and curriculum development.
Dr. Edozie listed such dysfunctions to include curriculum overload and non vocationalisation of the school curriculum, proliferation of subjects and courses and dearth of official curriculum in schools and the inability of some States to enrich the curriculum.
On his part, the Head of Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Federal College of Education (Technical), Asaba, Dr. Adewunmi Ayo-Vaughan said that it was the responsibility of the teacher to develop daily lesson plan , adding that it was wrong to write down a lesson plan that could spam a week or more .
