eSyllabus for Africa, a Non-Governmental Organization operating in the African sub-region has organized a literacy training programme for selected schools in the Tamale metropolis.
The training programme dubbed: “Functional Literacy Improvement Programme”, is to improve the skills of teachers, librarians and educational workers on how to effectively inculcate good reading habits among children by adopting appropriate and modern methods in teaching literacy.
Over the years, educational researches have revealed that reading is a major challenge for children in most basic schools across the country.
To nib the canker in the bud, eSyllabus for Africa thought that it is necessary to roll out and design a pilot programme that will improve upon reading habits especially among basic school children through the capacity building of teachers and other necessary stakeholders in the literacy chain.
Mrs. Millicent Zeika, a member of the International Literacy Society, facilitating the training programme implored teachers to use waste materials such as tins, boxes and attractive materials such as pictures, posters, drawings to stimulate the children to learn.
According to her, children easily grasp things around them especially when they are pictorial and in nature and can stimulate their desire to learn.
Mrs. Millicent who is also a tutor at the St John Bosco College of Education, advised parents to inculcate the habit of reading and create a congenial environment in their homes to woo the interest of their children to read.
Northern Ghana Director of eSyllabus for Africa, Crispin Wura-Sey Zeikah, explained that eSyllabus for Africa will intensify and encourage functional literacy as well as build the capacity of teachers to enable them teach the children to have the grasp of the English language.
He said organization is determine to provided educational opportunities and facilities to school children and put in place programmes to facilitates effective literacy by intensifying and encouraging functional literacy as well as build the capacity of teachers to enable them teach the children effectively.
He declares the organization intension to upscale the programme to the rural areas.
Source: GhanaWeb
