Elementary teachers undergoing training

ELEMENTARY school teachers from Hiri, Central, are undergoing a Australian government-sponsored five-day teacher training conducted by ChildFund PNG.
ChildFund training quality coordinator Esther Yambukia told The National yesterday in Port Moresby that they were upskilling teachers on the age appropriate teaching technics for literacy.
She said the training was to impart teaching skills and the confidence to teach children between the ages of six to eight years appropriate teaching technics.
“We are basically showing them how to help children to read, that’s the bottom line of the project so children are literate and they are able to read at an early age,” she said.
“We are looking at letter knowledge, a child has to know the name of the letter, the sound phonics, they have to know the sound which the letters make and then when they put together to form words.”
Yambukia said the training started on Monday and would end tomorrow.
She said the second teaching training would be in June and the third in December.
Yambukia said teachers from Kairuku and Rigo who had missed the previous training took part.
She said the elementary teachers would be certified by the project for numeracy and literacy.