RoSF seeks improved learning standards for educators

As parts of efforts aimed astatine improving the modular and prime of acquisition being offered successful schools, the Rose of Sharon Foundation (RoSF), precocious held an intensive grooming programme for teachers and schoolhouse administrators of prime schools successful Lagos.

Focusing connected Whole School Evaluation (WSE), the facilitators noted that it is simply a relation backed by grade 16 of 1985 nether the Education National Minimum Standards and Establishment of Institutions Act.

Speaking further connected the WSE, Dr Oluwatomi Modupeola Alade of the section of acquisition foundations, University of Lagos (UNILAG), said it’s a operation of a school’s ain self-evaluation and an outer evaluation. She added that the self-evaluation is simply a continuous process, which requires schools to usage the prime assurance valuation schedules to justice the prime of what they are doing; portion the outer valuation is carried retired by accredited outer evaluators, focusing connected quality.

She added that the interior valuation indispensable person a school-based absorption committee (comprising a chairperson, PTA representative, Old Student representative, spiritual groups representatives, student’s representative, the main and authorities representative) and a schoolhouse improvement plan.”

Speaking connected the value of the continuous grooming for educators, she said, “This has been an eye-opener for them; they were funny successful what WSE entails and however to beryllium amended teachers. It has to bash with prime power and assurance, full prime absorption successful education. Without prime control, everyone volition bash what they similar and if educators are to beryllium evaluated- adjacent if they bash not recognize the process and instruments being used- determination is nary mode the strategy tin get meaningful feedback needed for betterment without evaluating wherever they basal currently.”

She added that the grooming volition payment everyone, the government, the country’s acquisition system, parents and children. “It gives feedback and accountability of the investments made. For the teachers, it helps with self-improvement arsenic their errors are pointed out. We get amended schools and a amended nine overall,” she said.

Country Manager, RoSF, Dr Ndudi Bowei, said 1 of their cardinal programmes astatine the foundation, is acquisition scholarships provided for widows who inactive privation to spell to school, their children arsenic good arsenic orphans. “For the children and orphans, we springiness scholarships from superior up to tertiary level. If they marque a archetypal class, we assistance them up to masters’ level. This engagement programme, for teachers and schoolhouse administrators shows we are passionate astir education, which goes beyond conscionable paying schoolhouse fees and giving scholarships. We privation to beryllium portion of improving the prime of acquisition our beneficiaries get and that is wherefore we are engaging antithetic schools to fto the teachers and schoolhouse owners cognize that determination is simply a request for standardised valuation with regards to the prime of learning and acquisition successful Nigeria. They request to beryllium alert that they are giving the champion acquisition imaginable particularly due to the fact that galore backstage schools are not adjacent alert of this; we indispensable each guarantee determination is simply a modular successful the prime of acquisition being fixed to pupils,” she said.

Another facilitator, Dr Ada Chinwe Nwagwu of the Yaba College of Technology, who besides doubles arsenic the HOD of Arts and sub-dean, schoolhouse of method education, spoke extensively connected trauma that young children contiguous look arsenic good arsenic however to place and supply enactment for them. She said trauma successful children is becoming much salient and often goes unidentified oregon ignored. “Many children are traumatised and portion immoderate teachers don’t care, immoderate others cannot place erstwhile a kid is undergoing trauma; others bash not render enactment adjacent erstwhile they know. This tends to impact their acquisition and this is wherefore I indispensable commend the RoSF, they not lone enactment these children but person gone the other mile to guarantee the caregivers are getting it right.”

She added that conscionable arsenic the instauration is doing, much educators and schoolhouse administrators request to beryllium retrained often by the ministry of education, connected emerging acquisition trends for children and however champion to supply holistic support. Pre-tests and post-tests were conducted connected the teachers and Dr Nwagwu said she was precise satisfied with the level attained by the teachers aft the post-tests.