ICTs : Cameroonian Teachers Tap Finnish Experience

Over 100 teachers from 13 private schools and one public secondary school are currently reinforcing their skills on science-related subjects in the digital era. A two-day seminar on the Finland-Africa Collaboration for Private Secondary Teacher Training and Capacity-building in Central and West Africa opened in Yaounde yesterday, February 16, 2023.
Hosted by the Lady Bird Group of Schools in Yaounde, the project is an initiative of the Diaspora Academic Network for Africa (Diana RY) Finland. During the opening of the workshop which is in its first edition, on site at Ladybird High School and online with speakers in Finland, the head of the organising committee, Walters Mbotiji, said the workshop seeks to set a capacity-building and exchange platform between Finnish and African Teachers with focus on the private sector. Through the workshop, organisers are specifically conducting a need assessment to pilot the training and capacity-building of private secondary school teachers in Sub-Saharan Africa while laying a foundation for a teacher education capacity-building partnership between Central-West Africa and Finland and other leading education countries as well as the Diaspora teacher education experts.
In his virtual keynote, Professor Mohammadou M.O Kah, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Republic of Gambia to Switzerland and the United Nations, dwelled on digitalisation, new dynamics in STEM teaching and the role of teachers in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS), Agenda 2030.
Participants at the seminar are acquainting themselves with current dynamics of the teaching-learning processes, modern teaching methods and trends such as digitalisa...