Digicel Foundation helps in training Pom school teachers teachers

THIRTY-one elementary teachers are now better equipped with teaching skills after graduating from a 40-week course.
The teachers from the 16 community learning centres around Port Moresby graduated from the Digicel Foundation funded “Isi Learning” teacher programme.
Course facilitator Vincent Gene said a teacher was an architect to a child’s life so teacher training was crucial to the performance of children in the classroom.
Gene said the teachers were now equipped with phonics sound-write, an international teaching tool that bridges the gap for marginalised children and creates a pathway for them into formal learning in schools.
He said the teachers were assessed through in-service training assignments outcomes as well as the field supervision in community learning centre classrooms on time-tabling, lesson planning and teaching methods.
Pre-school teacher Gaume Tirimo said the programme had trained them to be more effective in terms of setting up their timetables, preparing lessons and carrying out other administrative functions in the school.
She thanked the Digicel Foundation for funding the programme.
The 40-week course cost K70,000 and included reading and writing, numeracy, social skills and health and hygiene.