As part of preparatory guidelines for the reopening of schools, the Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board [LASUBEB], has expressed its readiness to resume classroom academic activities in compliance with the directive of the state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, which necessitated a two-day capacity building workshop on post-COVID-19 and classroom Management for its schools’ administrators.
According to the Executive Chairman, LASUBEB, Wahab Alawiye-king, while briefing the participants, revealed that the training programme was supported by the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC mainly for school Managers, Administrators, Guidance Counsellors and Teachers.
He said that the programme was designed to further reinforce COVID-19 guidelines and regulations, psychosocial support services and classroom management techniques, while also preparing teachers for the new phase in the educational sector.
Alawiye –King, who expressed satisfaction with the training programme, stated that it would help keep teachers abreast of global transformational teaching techniques in a post-COVID-19 era across the six education districts in the state.
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He implored the participants to reproduce the knowledge derived from the training at their various places of primary assignment in order to move education in the state to a greater height.
He said: ‘’I urge you to make school improvement the first and foremost responsibility in improving education standard. The reopening of schools is part of a wider plan by the government to ease the lockdown and gradually reopen schools.
‘’For Lagos State, schools are an important part of the equation. Teachers in public schools have been going through series of training at keeping them abreast with the new normal,’’ AlawiyeKing said.
The chairman assured parents and pupils that LASUBEB has prepared the teachers to adapt to the new reality and adopt relevant hygiene protocols for reopening, describing the COVID-19 era as ‘’a new normal, that we all must learn to live with, accept and be willing to overcome.’’
He, however, noted that the reopening of schools is a process with different stages, namely; pre-opening, reopening and post-re-opening stages that need to be adequately planned for.
The Board, he maintained is prepared for the resumption of academic activities having provided all necessary facilities and infrastructures needed to maintain and comply with COVID-19 safety protocols.
‘’LASUBEB is ready to enforce and ensure that both public and private schools maintain physical distancing as well as other safety guidelines.
In her remarks, SUBEB Board member in charge of curricular, Sherifat Abiodun Sanusi, thanked the executive chairman for approving the training programme and advised teachers to be alive to their duties and to complement government’s huge investment in the education sector by following the best practices in the post-COVID-19 education management. She enjoined the participants to make judicious use of the knowledge acquired through the training exercise to finetune their teaching techniques to ensure effective teaching and learning for the benefit of Lagos school children as they are the leaders-in-waiting.
The two-day training programme went simultaneously in the six education districts in the state with participants expressing satisfaction on qualities of facilitators at the event.
