The National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) Kaduna is set to train 925 teachers nationwide as part of its 2020 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) capacity building workshops, the institute has said.
According to a statement on Sunday signed by NTI deputy-director, Public Relations, Malam Muhammad S. Abdullahi, NTI SDGs Desk Officer and Director Field Operations and Students’ Services, Mr Israel Akinola Durodola, said 25 primary and junior secondary schools teachers in each state and FCT would be trained between Monday, January 4 and Friday, January 8, 2021 in line with Covid-19 protocols.
“The training, which is expected to be interactive and learner-centred among the participants and their facilitators would focus on four thematic areas that include: Effective Classroom Management; ICT; Language Communications Skills and Basic Classroom Teaching Methods.
“Under the SDGs project, the Institute has so far trained 14, 230 teachers between 2016 and 2019. The Institute had between 2006 and 2015, trained a total of 754,296 teachers under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which was later succeeded by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
“The Institute, which is the implementing partner of the MDGs and later SDGs, has already deployed 204 of its staff as centre managers and support staff to all the 37 centres nationwide.
“Prof. Garba Dahuwa Azare, the Institute’s Director-General and Chief Executive had during staff briefing urged them to be committed and positive in the process of discharging this exercise,” the statement said.
