No fewer than 30,000 registered teachers will be participating in an online capacity building conference.
The training to be organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN, is in collaboration with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO.
The Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, Prof. Segun Ajiboye, who made the disclosure on Friday, said the conference which is the second organised by the council would hold between Monday, 22nd and Tuesday, 23rd August, 2022.
It would be recalled that the first edition of the conference was held between January 26th and 27th, 2021.
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Ajiboye who gave the theme of the conference as “Strengthening Teacher Capacity for more resilient, transformative and inclusive education system,” assured that the council would continue to seek ways of improving the capacity of registered teachers towards qualitative delivery of their mandates.
According to him, “The 2022 annual conference of registered teachers is the 2nd edition of the conference and over 30,000 participants have registered online, while about 9, 000 followers are expected to follow on our social media handles such as Facebook streaming live.
“Similarly, over 10,000 others will view the programme live on UNESCO social media handles. The conference parades arrays of speakers from the academia, development partners and active practitioners.
“A couple of others will be viewing the programme in set up viewing centres across three states namely Jigawa, Kano and Kaduna.”
Ajiboye added that the online conference is one of the already institutionalised mechanisms put in place to fulfil the mandates of the Council.
He said the conference which will be declared opened by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, was also being supported by PLANE and Save-the-Children-International, SCI, with support from sister agencies such as NCCE and NTI.
The TRCN boss however noted that the council would not rest on its oars towards getting registered teachers update their knowledge and imparting sound knowledge capable of transforming the country.
