LAST BATCH OF 50 IN-SERVICE TEACHERS SCHEDULED FOR THIS ACADEMIC YEAR have BEEN TRAINED
The AIMS-MasterCard Foundation Mathematics Teacher Training Program (TTP) held its 3rd workshop of 50 IN-SERVICE Mathematics Teachers from the 12th to the 17th of March These fifty (50) teachers, (14) females and (36) males are of the Francophone sub-educational system and were trained on how to teach in a more engaging and practical way in a bid to ameliorate their pedagogy and increase secondary school students’ interest in mathematics.
This was the last training programmed for the academic year. It started off leaden-footed and worry kept creeping in if the training was going to run smoothly. But all is well that ends well.
All sessions in the workshop were facilitated by the TTP-trained Master Trainers, who began with sessions on leadership, values, and motivation that are foundational attitudes in the teaching profession. As Leaders, the teachers have a sense of duty towards their students and should respect and exude the ethics that tag the teaching profession.
With the tone set on being a good teacher, the next 3 training sessions touched on how to become excellent teachers and the tools to use to enrich their lessons in order to pique their students’ interest.
With all the knowledge gained during the first three days of the training, the fourth day was reserved for lesson delivery to their peers in preparation for an actual lesson delivery in a real classroom setting on the fifth day at the Government Bilingual Practicing High school, Yaoundé.
To close the training workshop, the teachers were presented AIMS-TTP training certificates signed by the Minister of Higher Education and the Minister of Secondary
Together with Geometrical Instruments to boost them up as agents of developmental growth in Cameroon ready for change.
This training is a reconfirmation of the AIMS-NEI mission to propel Africa’s brightest students to their ultimate potential by giving them top notch training in mathematics. We believe that equipping mathematics teachers with the appropriate tools will fine tune their pedagogy, thus making more students interested in mathematics at an early stage and grooming them into the much needed problem solvers of our continent.
