TEACHER TRAINING OUGHT TO BE ALIGNED TO NEW REALITIES

Three thousand teachers are reported to have completed the first English teaching course and have acquired teaching skills in the language that was recently adopted as the medium of instruction in all schools in the country. The 3000 are drawn from primary and secondary school teachers and will thereafter be required to pass on the skills to fellow educationists. Such is a major development in the right direction. The training which is ideally going to be continuous and cover many other teachers will henceforth be a strong basis for the success of the transformation to the new medium of instruction. As we transit to this new era in our education system, it ought to be held in mind by the stakeholders in the education sector that this should also be a starting point for reforming the education sector to suit the needs of the time.