A quality Assurance Officer, at the River State Universal Basic Education Board (RSUBEB), Dr Amina Fiberisima has called on teachers in the state to not solely depend on government to improve themselves educationally.
Dr Fiberesima, who stated this recently in a one-day workshop for Quality Assurance Officers of RSUBEB, said over dependence on government “usually make teachers not to attain educational levels they should have ordinarily attained.
“This is why when government, education authorities, or others organize such workshop as this one, it becomes a privileged and an avenue for teachers to be serious and ensure that they focus, learn and practice what they are taught”, he said.
He explained further that to be worth their salt, teachers should mostly embark on self-sponsorship to programmes that would improve them educationally in their field of competence or area of specialization.
“This means that if they must improve themselves teachers would need to deprive themselves of certain habit such as embarking on certain category of social activities.
“Reading is a selfish attitude that will require one to deny himself or her self certain engagements to be able to concentration and come out tops”, he said.
He, therefore, charged participants at the workshop to take whatever they have learned serious, if you really want to improve yourself.
Emphasizing on the need for teachers to be trained, chairman of the Rivers State Nigeria Union Teachers, Chief Godfrey Nwogu noted that include Information and Communication Technology (ICT).  In his paper titled “The Roles functions and Responsibilities of unions in Quality Assurance Delivery in Schools. The NUT Perspective, the NUT boss used the opportunity to advocate for ICT trainings for teachers in the state.
“As a stakeholders in education development of the society, NUT advocates for the improved training of teachers and students in ICT,” he said.