Educationist advocates political intervention to improve education system
He added that the conference was happening for the first time to recognise, honour and equip teachers and school leaders with the intellectual tools needed to push their students into amazing endeavours.
An educationist and career management expert, Dr Peter Ogudoro, has advocated for more political intervention to improve the country's education system.
Ogudoro made the assertion on Monday in Lagos at a two-day International Teachers Conference organised by Nigerian Teachers Community (NTC) and sponsored by Facebook.
He said that political interventions at different levels were necessary to move and improve education system in country.
"Education system is the best instrument to move any country forward.
"The essence of this conference today is to get solutions and way forward to all the challenges facing education sector in different states.
"As a teacher, we need to improve our focus in classroom for the pupils or students because they will be the solution provider in the future.
"Children has the brain to learn fast and solve some issues which makes them to be well recognised as resources in the process," Ogudoro said.
He added that the conference was happening for the first time to recognise, honour and equip teachers and school leaders with the intellectual tools needed to push their students into amazing endeavours.
Mrs Cat Scutt, Director of Education and Research, Chartered Academy of Teaching, United Kingdom, said that developing and supporting teachers across their careers makes them different in the teaching profession.
Scutt, who spoke virtually, said that teachers should be given time and professional development which were very important.
"Teachers get better when they practice and teach daily, staying within the school environment.
" We train teachers virtually on how they can get better and use research with what they are doing.
"Evidence based teaching should be introduced into different schools which helps to know the best way to teach for the students to learn.
"Training teachers to be the best and developing their skills is very important," she said.
Supreme reports that Nigerian Teachers Community started their online platform in 2016 with over 300,000 members and won an award of Facebook Community Acceleration Award in 2021.
The community is a platform where teachers, school owners and education stakeholders share free resources for teaching and networking to achieve quality education.