CITAD Trains Bauchi Teachers On ICT Teaching

By Khalid Idris Doya

The Centre for Information and Development (CITAD) has begun training for 15 selected teachers in ten public schools in Bauchi to equip them with the necessary techniques and skills required from ICT teaching in the digital age.

Speaking to newsmen at the venue of the training, Anguwar Borno Primary School on Tuesday, a senior programme officer of CITAD, Mallam Isa Garba, said the training is aimed at imbibing in the teachers, skills that would enable them to scale up productivity and quality delivery of instructions in Bauchi State public schools.

Isa Garbage affirmed that it is only quality education that guarantees a better future for the next generation.

According to him, education is the solution to some of the challenges in the country and therefore, what will upscale its quality must be encouraged.

He insisted that the nation’s social challenges including terrorism, and banditry can best be remedied through the classroom by shaping the learner’s characters and impacting the right knowledge so that the children can become useful to themselves and the country at large.

The programme officer maintained that improving the standard of education in the country is the responsibility of everyone hence the need to embrace ICT from Basic Education to improve the quality of teaching.

On his part, the state CITAD programme Officer, Mujahid Ibrahim, noted they have introduced ICT training for kites aimed at catching them young and realised the important to extend same to teachers for its future sustenance.

In his remark, on the activities of the centre for Information Technology and Development, the Bauchi local government Education Secretary, Nuru Abdullahi, sought the sustenance of the partnership and commended CITAD deep passion and professionalism in executing its task of providing ICT knowledge to the public particularly teachers of SUBEB in the state.

Some of the participants who spoke expressed appreciation to the organisers of the ICT training to them and assured their readiness to step down the knowledge gained to achieve the set goals.