The Lagos State Basic Education Board (LASUBEB) has conducted training sessions for its Basic Education Quality Assurance (BEQA) officers to strengthen their capacity in mentoring and monitoring of the state’s primary schools.
The board said the training represented the kick-off of a new system of bi-weekly capacity buildings for the school management officers.
The trainees were taken through the data-driven technology-based model of instruction and school management being implemented in EKOEXCEL and equipped with technical expertise in driving improvements in the key performance indices (KPIs) of a strong school,which include teacher and pupil attendance, lesson completion, data entry into the EKOEXCEL server, pupil enrollment, and learning outcomes.
The 8-day training exercise was conducted between Monday, November 7 and Wednesday, November 16 and involved 180 officials drawn from each Local Government Education Authority (LGEA).
The training exercise, which took place in four local government areas across the state, to ensure no BEQA official was disenfranchised due to logistics covered areas like Epe, Ifako Ijaiye, Maryland and Ojo.
According to LASUBEB, the trainees were fully ready to commence their responsibilities as School Management Officers, providing mentoring and monitoring support to headteachers and teachers in the public primary schools.
It added that it would not only empower and develop the BEQA field officers in their careers but also bring them up to speed with how knowledge is being impacted across other parts of the world by including technology in the basic education system.
Speaking at the closing of the training sessions, LASUBEB Permanent Board Member overseeing the EKOEXCEL programme, Bayo Adefuye charged the newly inducted officers to be passionate and driven with their new responsibilities and duties.
He said “this task ahead is a very very important task, I am sure there is no gain saying much, you already know your roles. You are the heart and soul of the EKOEXCEL programme now, because you are the field officers and that is where most of EKOEXCEL’s work is done.
“As you are the ones to keep the teachers on their toes, to keep them working, to mentor them.“There is something we are trying to achieve with EKOEXCEL, we are trying to achieve optimum performance, we are trying to achieve efficiency and a higher level of education.
“The Governor has invested a lot into this programme and we must maintain its success for the benefit of the children” he said.
He added that “all trainees across all four centres participated actively and enthusiastically as sessions were delivered, and each trainee had the opportunity to practise and receive feedback during scrimmages and after the micro-teaching assessment.
”Micro-teaching and quizzes were administered to trainees in the mentoring category through the capacity building programme to check for trainees’ understanding of sessions delivered and remediation was done across the centres based on areas where trainees had lowest scores in the assessment.”
Launched in 2019, EKOEXCEL has made laudable/noteworthy achievements since then. Over 90% of Lagos State public primary school headteachers and teachers have been moved from analogue to digital teaching, using tablets and updated curricula.
The education reform programme has also recorded remarkable gains in enhancing the teacher-pupil interaction experience through technology (eLearning) in Lagos State primary schools.
credit: PM News
