Teachers’ Day: NUT urges members to build capacity

As the Nigerian Union of Teachers, (NUT) join the rest of the world to mark the annual Teachers’ Day today, the union has advised its members to build their capacities to be able to meet up with the challenges of the new normal.

The theme of this year’s celebration is, ‘Teachers: Leading in Crisis, Reimagining the Future’.

The Secretary-General, NUT, Dr Mike Ike-Ene, hinted that COVID-19 had placed greater burdens on teachers, adding that they needed to be more creative, resilience and innovative.

According to Ike-Ene, this year’s theme clearly shows that the greater burdens of COVID-19 have been placed on teachers to build their capacity to be more resilience and creative, because teachers are the ones shaping society.

He posited that teachers have to lead in this COVID-19 period and harped on the need to show that they are professionals, so teachers need to be trained and retrained.

In his words “As a teacher, you should know more than the people you are leading.  We need to have quality education and promote long term learning. Teachers need to be provided with more opportunities for regular training.”