Institute trains 18,000 teachers on e-facilitation – Director
By Moses Kolo/Bashir Rabe Mani
Prof. Musa Garba-Maitafsir, the Director, National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) Kaduna, said on Tuesday that the institute has trained more than 18,000 primary school teachers in Adamawa, Yobe and Borno on e-facilitation.
Garba-Maitafsir made this known on Tuesday in Kaduna at the opening of the 1st NTI Annual National Conference 2023.
The theme of the conference is: “Re-directing the Focus of Education Stakeholders Towards Modern Process of Producing Competent, Dedicated and Professional Teachers in Nigeria”.
He said that the objective of the training was to make the teachers be in tune with the extant global digital trends and enhance their efficiency.
“It is no longer tenable to spend billions of naira on producing books and other educational materials, while the world has gone almost paperless,” he said.
Garba-Maitfasir urged Nigerian teachers to urgently overcome the phobia of computers and embrace digitisation.
He said that the fear was uncalled for as nobody would be eased out even with the use of computers.
The director said a lot had changed since he assumed duty over two years ago.
“The institute was not more than a mere Post Office when I was appointed to head it but I have transformed it into one of the leading teachers training institutions in the world in the last two years.
“It is now an academic institute of repute, boasting of over 100 PhD holders. All the stakeholders should do the right thing to get the desired change.
“If all of us do so, there will be a change in the next decade or more. If I leave this place without bringing the desired change, I will be doing an injustice to myself,” he said.
Garba-Maitfasir, therefore, advocated enhanced funding for the education sector, just as funds were provided for other sectors.
“We have to change what is wrong in the education system to secure the future of our children,” Garba-Maitafsir added. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
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