Abia teachers receive training to enhance learning, security in schools

With the ris­ing insecurity problems in the country teachers in Abia State primary schools are undergoing training on security in order to en­sure the safety of children in the primary school sys­tem in the state.

To this end, a non-gov­ernmental organisation, Precious Kids Education Empowerment (PKEE), which packaged the pro­gramme has flown in a team of experts for the training programme.

The President of the foundation, Mrs Vivian Peters, told journalists in Umuahia yesterday that her NGO has made it a point of duty to retrain Abia primary school teachers, upgrade their skills and keep them on alert on the security of children under their care.

 “We are very con­cerned about the security of the kids”, she said, add­ing that teachers would be put through on all the necessary areas that they would require to protect children while in schools.

She said that the train­ing programme was tailored towards the needs of Abia State and anchored on five sub­jects which also include classroom management, teacher-student relation­ship, first aid and security alert.

The PKEE President said that a total number of 120 teachers including the education secretaries carefully selected from across the three senatorial zones would be trained at a selected centre in each of the senatorial zones.