Mashav trains kindergarten teachers to be more effective

Ninety-three kindergarten educators selected from 12 districts in the Greater Accra Region have successfully completed a two weeks intensive training organised for them under the Early Childhood Development Programme.

The two -week’s intensive programme was sponsored by Mashav, Israel’s Agency for Development Cooperation.

The Early Childhood Education Programme, an initiative under Mashav, is a collaborative effort between the Embassy of Israel, Accra Metropolitan Assembly and the Ghana Education Service.

It aims to contribute to the grass-roots level human capacity building through knowledge sharing in areas in which Israel has accumulated expertise.

The workshop, fifth on the role, was held on the theme: Planning and Learning in an Integrative Learning Environment, to teach kindergarten educators on proper classroom activities.

Ms Tamar Dagan, Mashav Coordinator, said the training is to take teachers through the various classroom situations that would help them create a conducive learning environment for children whenever they leave home for school.

She said the educational training would build the capacity of the educators for them to share and transfer the knowledge gained through the training to other teachers to have the knowledge in pre-schooling enhanced through the sharing of ideas and knowledge.

Mr Eyal Lambert, Deputy Ambassador for Israel congratulated participants for attending the training adding that this would make teachers find ways to connect with the children in the classroom for proper upbringing.

Mr Lambert urged teachers to find joy in whatever they do since that is what brings out the creativity that would lead to the growth of not only children but the country at large.

He urged teachers to know that with every child they have in their care is a resource of future presidents and great leaders who would manage the affairs of the country and as such should be treated with much more importance.

Mr Lambert, therefore, appealed to the teachers to keep on working hard and believe in themselves to have passion and joy to nurture the most important resource that the Ghana has to offer.

Mrs Rosetta Addison Sackey, Accra Metro Director of Education thanked the Israel Government for sponsoring the training and selecting Accra metropolis to accord participant a unique opportunity to acquire the best practices to teach children for their development.

She urged participants to go back to their various schools to implement and improve on what they have acquired for the children’s well-being in other to gain confidence in the classroom before they get to class one.

Mrs Addison Sackey thanked the facilitators for their efforts to help teachers comprehend the topics they would need to the development of early childhood programme.

MASHAV, Israel’s Agency for International Development Cooperation, is responsible for the design, coordination and implementation of the State of Israel’s development cooperation programmes.

As one of the oldest international development agencies in the world, MASHAV is dedicated to providing developing countries with the best of Israel’s experience in development and planning.