In honouring World Teachers’ Day, the Minister of Education emphasizes the need for educators to continue to receive training.
Nigeria marks ‘World Teachers’ Day’ as the education minister emphasizes the constant preparation of teachers.

As Nigerian joined the World on Thursday, 5th October 2023, to recognize the World Teachers’ Day event, the Educational Minister, Tahir Mammam, and Minister of State, Yusuf Sununu, have stressed the significance of persistent preparation and ability advancement for teachers in Nigeria.
The minister likewise informed the educators to be grateful for the endeavours of the Nigerian government to reposition their calling in the country.

They expressed this at the 2023 recognition of the Worldwide occasion in Abuja, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), as a component of the exercises to check the day set aside to respect educators for their essential jobs in improving humankind and society.

The theme for this year is: “The Teacher We Need for the Education We Want: The Global Trend to Reverse the Teacher Shortage.”

Mr. Mamman expressed a portion of the commitments made to educators by the public authority had been satisfied, noticing that they can now resign at either 65 years old or 40 years of administration, whichever is earlier.
He added that Teachers’ salaries are now on the first line of charge for timely payment.

He said, “Today, we have met up as people and as a worldwide community to commend our educators as the general public’s overlooked yet genuinely great individuals. World Teachers Day isn’t simply a yearly recognition but a demonstration of the extraordinary force of schooling and the devotion of the individuals who work with it.

“As we leave on this occasion with the current year’s subject, let us ponder the obstructions that educators experience while ingraining information, values, and trust.
We need to reexamine our way of dealing with educator preparation, enrollment, government assistance, and outfit educators with the abilities, assets, and the acknowledgment they have the right to fulfill the advancing needs of training in the 21st hundred years.”

Mammam further said it is central that while reaffirming the significance of educators’ important jobs in molding a more brilliant tomorrow each year, “there is a critical need to get the obstacles that forestall the ideal acknowledgment free from their jobs and targets,” he said.
He also said the struggle of instructing youthful personalities goes past the limits of the homeroom.

As he indicated, it is ceaseless work to rouse, persuade, and direct understudies toward their maximum capacity.
He said educators ought to note that their words reverberate profoundly with their understudies and students, consequently reaffirming the significance of the teacher’s job in sustaining imagination, cluelessness, interest, or unresponsiveness.

“We as a whole realize that education is more than bestowing information and includes ingraining a deep-rooted love for learning, character building, drafting uplifting outlook and general relationship with individuals outside the study hall,” he said,  “Every one of these is casually sent through the educators direct.”
“As we celebrate educators today, there is a need for instructors in Nigeria to be energetic about endeavours by the Federal Government to reposition the instructing calling.”

The State Minister for Education, Mr Sununu, commented that inadequate educators in the nation and different regions threaten such countries.
He said the time had come to ponder the primary job educator’s play by imparting information, values, and hunger for learning to their understudies to make them dependable residents.
He said: “On the off chance that all prepared educators are enthusiastic and ready to seek after greatness, the instructors we have in our schools can, by and large, alter the essential and optional training sub-areas.

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“In Nigeria, as in numerous nations worldwide, the lack of qualified educators and the ideal type of training represent a huge test.
“Progressing worldwide thoughts suggest changes that anchor on responsibility, associations, correspondence and imagination in the predominant conventional schooling philosophy.

“In this manner, schooling is at a fundamental crossroads, and educators in helping require consistent preparation and retraining to squeeze into the plan.
“The instructor we need will be an innovative, attentive person, connecting with, cooperative and sympathetic. He additionally should be versatile, centered around development, persistent, respectful, and ready to take part in long-lasting learning”.

Mr. Sununu added that the powerlessness of educators who might be proficient in computers yet need to be more fit to convey Information Communication Technology (ICT) in educating and learning influences training results and the capacity to accomplish public advancement objectives.

He said: “It is important that educators in Nigeria ought to exploit the Open Education Resources (OER), online and in-person learning to overhaul and turn into “the educators we need.”
“This is for us to guarantee that each youngster in Nigeria approaches quality training.”

The event saw a walk-past by educators across the 36 states, including the FCT and President Teachers and Schools awards.

Omolade Adeyemi, from the SUBEB Model Primary School, Ekiti State, was pronounced Nigeria’s best educator in the government school classifications. At the same time, St. Paul Academy Jos, Platue, was positioned as the best school in the private-based school categories.

Ijeoma Ekumankama of the Federal Government College, Nise, Anambra State, is the best principal; the best educator in the non-public school category was Ruth Oraekwu, while the best school director in the state public school category was Oladimeji Bello, among other awardees.