By Chigozie Uzosike
The Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA) Imo state chapter has called on the government and education stakeholders at the state to make Education a priority by providing the needed funding allocation and release to the sector to have a transformative Education.
The coalition made the call through her activities to commemorate the Global Action Week on Education 2024, with the theme: Beat the drum for “Transformative Education”. The activities included Advocacy Visits, interactive sessions with Heads of teachers and supervisors, airing of Beat the drum jingles, radio interactive programme, among others.
At an interactive session with Heads of teachers in Mbaitoli LGA, the Imo State Coordinator of CSACEFA, Elder Kenneth Amogu, reminded the teacher of their professional slogan that says “teachers are great, no controversy “, he charged them to beat the drum for transformative Education by being passionate in delivering healthy and quality teaching, ensuring that learning takes place for a transformed learner. He encouraged them to be diligent in their duties, improve their skills regularly through trainings to ensure that they deliver quality teaching, that will enable learning to take place and learners transformed for a better society.
“We must through quality teaching reduce the various vices found among our young people, like drug abuse, rape, kidnapping, early marriage, teenage pregnancy, among others. “We must have transformative Education to attain SDG 4 and make our society a better place”, he said.
In her remark during the interactive session, the Director UNICEF and other NGO desk IMSUBEB, Dr. Mrs Chinwe Adim encouraged the teachers to continue to improve their skills, and take participation in training opportunities provided by government and partners very serious, as that will help and position them well for transformative Education.
In her contribution, Mrs Juliet Okeiyi, the State Secretary CSACEFA Imo State, encouraged the teachers to always strive to work as professionals, building their capacities in some special areas as ICT, use of Smart School Learning materials, and taking every available opportunity for training serious to enable them to be rightly positioned to deliver transformative Education, as the sector continues to embrace digital training and learning.
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The teachers agreed that they need trainings on modern teaching skills to improve on their capacity to deliver quality teaching.
At the Global Action Week for Education (GAWE 2024) Radio discussion held at Orient FM owerri, Elder Kenneth Amogu applauded the government and her education stakeholders for the attention the sector is receiving at the state. He requested for more support to the sector, to enable the state achieve transformative Education sector.
He made case for more funding for Education projects, as well as timely release of the allocations for implementation. He stressed on the need to make Education at the state healthy and transformative, adding that most of the primary schools in the state, do not have perimeter fence, desks and tables for learners and teachers, water and sanitary facilities for use, especially by the girl child during her monthly periods. He said providing this facilities in our schools will make learning and transformation to take place faster.
In her own contributions, Mrs Juliet Okeiyi also appreciated the Government and her partners for their support to Education, and requested for a special attention on teachers training, as many of them need to be retrained, and have their capacities built to enable them deliver quality teaching.
The coalition also embarked on Advocacy visit as part of the GAWE 2024 celebrations.
