Teachers undergo skills training

A TRAINING of trainers (TOT) targeting literacy and numeracy in early childhood education is currently underway in Lae to equip education officials and teachers to be more effective in early childhood teaching and learning.
World Vision’s teacher support officer and facilitator Beverly Ilagi said Nawaeb and Markham districts in Morobe were covered since 2018.
She said this year they had taken on board the Huon Gulf district.
“We are targeting to train 256 teachers from the three districts by the end of next week under the second phase of the project called Together for Education,” Ilagi said.
The project is funded by the Papua New Guinea and Australia partnership to enhance literacy and numeracy in early childhood education.
The training was timely as the Morobe government and the education division would implement the 3-6-6 education format this year as a pilot project in some schools.
Ilagi said two batches of teachers totalling 500 from Nawaeb and Markham were trained in the first phase of the project between 2018 and 2019.
She said there would be two TOT sessions this year for officials and three for teachers.
Morobe education acting adviser Keith Tangui said the workshop was important for teachers.
“This workshop will prepare early childhood teachers to take on early childhood teaching and learning,” Tangui said.
He said many students were not using the English language properly in schools because they were not taught well in their early years.