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Katsina: The Katsina State Universal Basic Education (SUBEB) is collaborating with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) to strengthen the state’s capacity for teacher development and school support.
The six-day training commenced in Katsina on Monday and is organised under the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) funded Transforming Education System at State Level (TESS) initiative.
At the event, Mr Aleshin Olumayowa, the National Programme Coordinator of Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA), said 85 state master trainers of school support officers would benefit.
According to him, such a crucial training programme for designated project officers and School Support Officers (SSOs), embarked on by the UBEC boss, Aisha Garba, aimed to reform the basic education sub-sector.
Olumayowa added that the exercise aimed to enhance teachers’ quality and support systems in the Oyo, Adamawa, and Katsina (OAK) states.
” This initiative is a key component of the TESS programme, an Additional Financing (AF) provided by the GPE to build upon the successes of the BESDA programme in these states.
“The TESS programme focuses on three critical result areas: reducing the number of out-of-school children, improving teachers’ teaching practices, and enhancing teacher deployment and education expenditure transparency.
” This current training directly addresses the second result area, Disbursement Linked Indicator Area 2 (DLI-2), by equipping key education stakeholders with the knowledge and skills to effectively support teachers through structured pedagogy methods and digital resources.
” The training programme is designed to familiarise participants with digitised teachers’ content, the school support officer’s platform, and the framework for supporting DLI 2,” he said.
In her keynote address, the state’s Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Hajiya Zainab Musa-Musawa, said the training was crucial and timely.
According to her, the training is not just another workshop but a strategic step in the collective journey toward achieving Result Area two DLIs of the TESS Project.
Musa-Musawa, represented by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Hajiya Ummukhair Bawa, explained that the project focused squarely on enhancing literacy outcomes as a cornerstone for all other forms of learning.
” As you all know, literacy is the bedrock of education. Without the ability to read, comprehend, and express, our learners will remain trapped in cycles of underachievement.
“This intervention is vital for fulfilling project indicators and transforming lives, schools, and communities across Katsina State.
” The training of 85 State Master Trainers is a deliberate investment in building a pool of professional educators who will cascade best practices in literacy instruction to thousands of teachers across the state,” she said.
Meanwhile, Hajiya Binta Abdulmuminu, the state project Coordinator at TESS, said that the objectives of the training include exposure to digitised content and a thorough understanding of the digitised self-study content across four core subjects.
Abdulmuminu said that other objectives include equipping officers with knowledge of the monitoring and evaluation framework for participants and the Education Management Information System (EMIS) platform for data collation.
She added that one of the objectives was to develop the skills necessary to effectively support the benefiting states in implementing the curated teacher content and SSO applications.