PHOTO: Beneficiaries of the Teachers capacity building program
By Charles Gbayor, maorethason1997@gmail.com
HARPER, Liberia- As the new academic school year, over one hundred teachers here in the southeastern Maryland County have benefited from a 3-day capacity building program sponsored by Street Child Liberia.
The exercise saw the teachers in Harper Maryland County impacted with 21st-century teaching skills.
The beneficiaries, who are about 113 and they come from Harper and Pleebo Educational School Districts, were trained in effective virtual classroom pedagogy, best practices in curriculum development, lesson planning, and innovative 21st-century student-centered teaching methods.
Speaking to www.newspublictrust.com at the Jacksonville Youth Building in Harper, Street Child Liberia Learning Support officer of Maryland County, Annie Sleweon said the initiative also aims to strengthen the literacy skills of the participating teachers to enable them utilize digital tools and platforms more effectively in both classroom and virtual learning environments.
”Today as implementing Education partner to the Ministry of Education, we have brought over one hundred thirteen public school teachers to refresh their minds in some basic classroom management and presentation,” said, Annie Sleweon.
She named participating schools as Agnes Thompson Public school, Nathan Barnes Elementary School, E. Othello Gongar Public SCHOOL, Big Town Public School, S.E. Gibson, Pedebo, Cavalla, Wetchoken, Wahde Nyema, Pleebo Demonstration, and Old Lady Public school.
”All of these schools’ named are under the Street Child Liberia, Liberia Education Advancement Program, LEAP.”. she added.
The Street Child focal person in Maryland County stated that at the end of the training street child is expected to see a big change in the presentation of public schools teachers.
Annie Sleweon, Street Child Liberia official
Annie Sleweon reiterated her institution’s commitment to supporting a more educated population by increasing and strengthening the capacity of Liberian teachers through teacher training workshops and exchange programs.
” We have come to support the Ministry, as such we will do everything as an institution to empower them where necessary until Liberia’s education system can be improved,“ she concluded.
Also speaking at the end of the three-day teacher refresher training workshop in Harper was Gyedaye G. Griffith, Teacher at the Cavalla Pubic School and a participant who praised streets Child for the training.
According to him, the three days exercise has refreshed their mines on some bias classroom management and techniques.
Gyedaye G. Griffith, a Teacher who benefitted from the training
”My brother, you will not understand how happy I am today to see myself in this training learning from my fellow teachers, this gathering means a lot to my profession as an educator, I have learned a lot of new things from my fellow colleagues and this is going to change my style of classroom presentation,” one of the proud teachers told this Reporter.
Like Gyeday Griffith, several Participants who spoke with Fortune TV Liberia also expressed gratitude to the organizers and facilitators for their high level of presentation and knowledge shared, which they noted will help them greatly in their various classes as the new academic school year has already begun.