Orientation programme for 2,000 newly engaged Senior Secondary School teachers in Kwara State will hold between Wednesday, October 27th and Thursday, October 28th, 2021, a statement issued on Saturday by the Press Secretary of the state’s Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Mr. Peter Amogbojaiye, said.
The programme, organised by the commission and the state’s chapter of the All Nigeria Federation of Principals of Secondary Schools(ANCOPSS), is aimed at training the new teachers on teaching techniques among others.
The training will be flagged off at the Queen Elizabeth College, Ilorin on Wednesday, October 27, 2021, by the Chairman, Teaching Service Commission, Mallam Bello Tauheed.
The statement further indicated that the training session for teachers from Kwara Central Senatorial District will also hold at Government Secondary School Ilorin while teachers in Kwara South Senatorial District will have their training at Government Secondary School, Omu-Aran and Offa Grammar School, Offa, immediately after the flag-Off ceremony.
It added that the training session for teachers from Kwara North Senatorial District would be held simultaneously at Government Unity Secondary School, Kaiama, Baptist Grammar School, Okuta, and Lafiagi Secondary School, Lafiagi on Thursday, October 28, 2021.
The Commission directed the newly employed teachers to attend the training promptly for them to be exposed to the teaching techniques, job demands and the government’s expectations of them from experts.