Basic Education : Pedagogues Seek Solution to Key Challenges

Educators have begun tackling key challenges facing Basic Education in Cameroon in view of coming up with practical tools and ways that will enhance evaluation, teacher training and practice of distance learning, all to guarantee the performances of learners and teachers on the field.
Speaking from a context of the ongoing socio-political and health crisis and evolution of pedagogy, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Basic Education, Oyono Adams Daniel, while opening workshop on the activities of pedagogic chain of his Ministry at the Vallée des Princes hotel in Douala on April 20, 2022, said they have to use distance education to reinforce what pedagogic practices have been doing the traditional way. 
 “We pedagogues, educators from the central body and regional teams are here to evaluate ourselves on how we’ve been teaching, how we’ve been accompany our teachers on the field on teacher training; evaluate our overall pedagogy activity and to enable ourselves meet up with the challenges of this time – distance education.” Those are the words of the Inspector General of Education in the Ministry of Basic Education, Prof. Atemajong Justina Njika, in an interview she granted the press shortly after the opening of the workshop. 
In the last mid-term evaluation, the Minister of Basic Education identified that there is a disjoint between end-of-course performances and international evaluations on learners. For example, there were no harmonised control documents such that some coverage rates of programmes did not reflect the reality since they were sometimes evaluated according to the annual quota and at other times according to the qua...