OGUNLEARN PLATFORM HAS IMPROVED TEACHERS' COMPETENCE- ARIGBABU

 OGUNLEARN PLATFORM HAS IMPROVED TEACHERS' COMPETENCE- ARIGBABU

Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, has said that the introduction of Ogun Learning Enhancement and Academic Resource Network (OgunLEARN), has overtime increased the competence and delivery output of teachers across the State .

Prof. Arigbabu, revealed this during the presentation of awards to the 10 winners of the OgunLEARN Competition, organised by the Ministry, at the Cinema Hall of June 12 Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta, noting that learners' experience, exposure, linguistic abilities, environment, background, culture, even religion, were factors considered when building a particular method of teaching, hence, the reason why the Ministry adopted OgunLEARN, with the aim to digitally reposition the entire education sector.

The Commissioner explained that when the competition was announced, participants were instructed to put the video of their lessons using OgunLEARN platform on Ogun Edu Matters, the videos were scruitinised, after which the best 10 emerged, urging others to continue to navigate the digital platform so as to meet up with the next selection process.

"We can see the need for us to actually make sure that our teaching is customised to the experiences of the learners. That is part of the things that actually makes OgunLEARN to be different from others"

"You cannot appreciate the platform until you use it very well. The end result is to do away with the manual method of teaching and engage in virtual teaching," Arigbabu said.

He commended OgunLEARN Ambassadors for organising capacity building training for other teachers on how to navigate OgunLEARN platform for the efficiency of teaching and learning.

In his remarks, Chairman of Ogun State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Apostle Abiodun Sanyaolu, said the success story emerging from the implementation of OgunLEARN across the schools in the State were indeed encouraging, adding that since the adoption of the digital innovation with enthusiasm, there had been increased productivity, improved efficiency and impactful service delivery in the education sector.

On his part, Chairman of Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Evang. Olalekan Ifede, stated that there was no other way for the stakeholders to comply with the best policies in education today than to go digital, calling on all and sundry to adopt the use of technology for easy and desirable results.

Earlier in her welcome address, Permanent Secretary in the Education Ministry, Mrs. Oluwatosin Oloko, noted that the programme was to motivate other teachers that they could assuredly attain the feat their colleagues attained, appreciated the teachers for shaping the lives of learners and for making them excel at different competitions.

The Principal General of Yewa Division, Mr. Taoreed Bankole and leaders of the education related Associations and Unions, such as Association of Primary School Headteachers of Nigeria (AOPSHON), All Nigerian Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools (ASUSS) and Association of Primary School Teachers of Nigeria (APSTON), commended the present administration in the State for leveraging on technology to reposition the entire education system.

 

Ayoola Obadimu,

Information and Public Relations Officer, MOES&T