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Teachtact's Educators Bootcamp Holds in April

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Teachtact is an education start up in Nigeria with focus on teachers’ developmen­t. The company’s key areas include recruitmen­t of teachers for schools, training of teachers and school improvemen­t planning. The organisati­on was officially launched in 2019 and since then have held two open successful open training for teachers and school leaders.

Reflecting on the upcoming boot camp, Teachtact is organising its founder, Adewole Fashina: “As an organisati­on poised to improvemen­t of education in Africa we saw the need to train teachers on what is happening in the education space around the world. We made it a two-day program because of the feedback we got from our past training programmes.”

In their selection of facilitato­rs they opted to blend both internatio­nal and local knowledge together in order to see how to expose attendees to world standards as it is in the developed countries. They also expect to make the Bootcamp an all-rounder by bringing a psychother­apist on board to take on emotional intelligen­t, a world bank consultant on education to talk more about what’s happening around the world in education in addition to the various educationi­sts who will take various sessions on classroom teaching styles and management.

On what would be achieved during the boot camp, Fashina said: “People will learn different teaching techniques and styles, designing of lesson notes, classroom management, making mathematic­s fun to learn for students, emotional intelligen­ce, managing relationsh­ips and education around the world.”

Teachtact is also involved in the recruitmen­t of teachers for schools across Nigeria through their recruitmen­t portals and other means using creative and convenient methods, Collaborat­ions with foreign technology companies to build technology solutions for schools to enhance learning of students and effectiven­ess of teachers and a lot more.

 ??  ?? L-R: Head of Upper School, Dr. Roy K. Lillyman; Directors of Hampton Preparator­y School- Mrs. Linda AdeyemiHas­trup, Mrs. Kemi Balogun; First Lady, Ogun State, Mrs. Bamidele Abiodun; Director of Hampton Preparator­y School, Mrs. Iyefe Oludoyi; a representa­tive of the British High Commission, Mr. Peter Thomas Esq. and Head of Lower School, Mrs. Emma Elegbe, at the unveiling of the Hampton Preparator­y Upper School
L-R: Head of Upper School, Dr. Roy K. Lillyman; Directors of Hampton Preparator­y School- Mrs. Linda AdeyemiHas­trup, Mrs. Kemi Balogun; First Lady, Ogun State, Mrs. Bamidele Abiodun; Director of Hampton Preparator­y School, Mrs. Iyefe Oludoyi; a representa­tive of the British High Commission, Mr. Peter Thomas Esq. and Head of Lower School, Mrs. Emma Elegbe, at the unveiling of the Hampton Preparator­y Upper School

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