The Centre for Learning and Educational
Development Advocacy Africa, says 68 percent of primary and secondary
school teachers in Nigeria are “accidental teachers”.
CLEDA-Africa’s Executive Director, Mr.
Daniels Akpan, in Kaduna on Wednesday that the development was hampering
delivery of quality education.
He said, “Over 68 per cent of teachers
in primary and secondary schools in the country are teachers not because
they want to be teachers but they are teachers because they cannot find
any other job.
“The easiest opportunity they found was
teaching and consequently, they are teaching without passion, without
motivation and with no interest.”
Akpan said that there was the need, therefore, to help such persons improve on their quality of service.
He said, “This is because a nation
cannot be better than the quality of its graduates, and the graduates
cannot be better than the teachers that taught them.
“If you improve on the quality of the teachers, you are in invariably improving the quality of graduates.”
He explained that CLEDA-Africa, in
collaboration with National Association of Proprietors of Private
Schools, had trained 177 teachers in Kaduna, Kano and Zamfara states on
effective classroom management.
According to him, the effort is part of measures to address the problem.
He said CLEDA-Africa was a non
governmental organisation working to help youths discover themselves and
exploit their potentials.
The director commended Kaduna State
Government for its efforts to provide access to education to all school
aged children in the state.
He urged the government to provide the needed facilities for effective service delivery.
He said, “It is not about the number of children in school, but about quality education delivery that will produce result.”
Akpan congratulated teachers for marking
the 2016 World Teachers’ Day and urged them to be committed and
passionate about their profession to build an educated and enlightened
nation.
SOURCE: NAN
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