Horn of Africa Aid conducted Teacher Training Programme in Somalia
one of the photos of Horn Africa Aid (Haa) training sessions
Horn of Africa Aid has conducted a new teacher training programme in different regions in Somalia. The training has been organised for teachers and administrators in many schools to raise their professional competence, in a country, which suffers a shortage of scientific talent and skilled manpower. Each session was covering a specific topic from the topics of education that should be mastered by the teacher, in the previous year on the theme session of the training of teachers was the importance of knowing the student (learner) and his or her psyches so that the teacher will understand properly the personalities of the learners and their social reality.
This year’s session has been organized based on the data results of educational supervision and the need for new schools to provide teachers with the necessary competencies for lesson planning and implementation.
The lesson planning and implementation are the most important teaching skills necessary for the teacher in the modern school, as the lack of planning means planning for failure, which will reflect on and effect the student achievement in the school.
The training covered many topics which includes the educational connection, its importance and components, foundations of teaching and its principles and the difference between teaching and teaching and learning, and the difference between annual academic plan and daily lesson plan, and the general objectives and sources, and behavioural objectives, formulation, content and methods of selection and analysis, and ways and means, and educational activities, and teaching calendar. Session also included topics relevant to the subject, including classroom management, methods, sources of educational environment, and ways to take advantage of them, and the ethics of the teaching profession and others.
The main training took place in Mogadishu and started on Saturday 2nd of July 2011.Opening Ceremony has been attended by Mr. Hussein Abdi Adam; the head of education department of horn of Africa Aid and many educational leaders and representative of many organisations including Mr. Abdul Karim Hussein, Director General of the Association of Private Education formal in Somalia, the largest educational umbrella in the country. Muhammad Makran director of universities and scholarships in the Ministry of Education and Higher Education also gave speech in the ceremony and he affirmed the government’s enthusiasm to maintain the community based and none governmental education achievements civil achievement people maintained a presence during this critical period.
The training has come to end on 07.07.2011 AD, and speakers of the closing ceremony stressed the importance of the training and the need of the teachers implementing what they have just learned in the training in order to achieve the ultimate goal behind the training. The participants affirmed their thanks and gratitude to those funded and the organisers of the training. They also thanked the management of the Horn of Africa Aid.
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