Expert stresses importance of training

A professor of Guidance and Counseling at the Delta State University, Okobiah Otete, has called on the Federal Government to encourage teachers in public schools to undergo in-service training.

She said it would help to mould teachers’ attitude to work and enhance the development of the teaching profession in Nigeria.

Otete spoke at the 2015 Great Teachers Conference, organised by Jes’s Lord International Services Limited in Lagos recently.

The conference was held at the Home Science School, Lagos.

The professor said, “It will impact on teachers’ attitude, the students and the teaching profession. They will learn how to handle difficult subjects and issues of discipline, as an alternative to flogging children.

“They will learn what teachers need to do to become effective on the job.”

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Otete said the conference had availed participants the opportunity to identify areas of difficulties and the necessary initiatives to take to address them.

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