Stakeholders in education sector have emphasized the need to sustain innovative approaches that have continued to help in surmounting challenges presented to the sector by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This is coming amid the second wave of the pandemic, for which schools’ full resumption has been delayed in Anambra and other States.
Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, had in a Statewide broadcast, announced that schools in Anambra shall not reopen as earlier scheduled, to enable school principals and teachers prepare for the return of school children.
Anambra State Commissioner for Basic Education, Professor Kate Omenugha, who commended the state government for training teachers in the state on ICT, said with the support of education ambassadors, information officers in local government areas of the state, as well as community stakeholders, education in Anambra is on course.
Former Director of Otuocha Educational Zone, Mrs Imelda Emeka, who highlighted benefits of learning in a physical classroom, however suggested that online and various virtual means of teaching and learning should be sustained, to further close the gap occasioned by the pandemic, even as she called on school children to also keep themselves busy with acquiring skills.
Speaking to the ABS on preparedness of schools for full reopening, some school teachers at Community Secondary School, Omor, Nneamaka Secondary School, Ifitedunu, Community Secondary School, Abba, said government and individual efforts are needed to provide more COVID-19 test tools such as infrared light thermometer, buckets, water, sanitizer, sick bay, as well as establish functional COVID-19 taskforce in schools.
Parents and caregivers, including Mrs Ijeoma Obiekezie, Mr. Dominic Ezeoke and Anthony Onwuanyi, while regretting effects of the continued closure of schools on education, including rising cases of teenage pregnancies, expressed delight with steps taken by the Anambra state government in containing the spread of the virus, and creating alternative to learning in a physical classroom.
Some school children, including Miss Kosi Nnalue, Marycynthia Anaedo both from Community Secondary School, Omor, Ayamelum LGA, while expressing determination to overcome challenges presented to their education by the COVID-19 pandemic, called for more support in sustaining beyond the COVID-19 era, and making online teaching and learning, as well as ABS teaching on air more accessible to school children, in addition to attending extra moral lessons.
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