Eta Katundu is Director of Training and Skills Development. She directs, manages, cordinates and implements all training programmes for Baruthi Education Care and Support Network. These training programmes are tailored to build the capacity and build the competence levels of our target groups in order to enhance effective and efficient delivery of services to the end user. At Baruthi, the training programmes and activities include:
- Teacher training and professional development workshops aimed at empowering educators with sound and modern lesson delivery, classroom management, assessment and evaluation tools
- Learning Support strategies for Assistant Teachers
- Identification of learners with learning difficulties like Dyslexia, Dyscaculia, Dysgraphia, ADHD, and how to manage their learning process
- Bespoke methods in designing IEPs to cater for individual learning needs
- Community sensitisation programmes on Children’s right to education and participation in the promotion and protection of the child’s rights
- Community participation in school activities in their vicinities
TRAINING POLICY
In keeping with the current trends and needs in training, we make sure that our training is informed by international pronouncements on training needs in education. Recently on September 26th, 2012 when the UN Secretary General launched Education First, a five-year Global Initiative on Education, three priorities were spelt out as the focus for the initiative and these include (1) Putting every child in school (2) Improving the quality of learning and (3) Fostering Global Citizenship.
Therefore our training programmes are aimed at improving the quality of learning by equipping the teachers with skills and knowledge that will enable them to deliver quality lessons for quality learning. Only a quality teacher is better placed to produce quality learning among his or her learners. We recognise that a vast majority of children in schools today do not attain their best in the education system due to, in many instances, the non availability of well trained teachers. This impacts negatively on the learners who will later leave school without having achieved the skills, abilities and knowledge that should allow them to grow emotionally, creatively and intellectually as was demanded by the World Education Forum in 2000.
We shall tailor our training programmes to help teachers at pre-primary, primary and secondary levels to acquire skills that would help them develop an understanding of global issues and global challenges. Teachers need to develop skills to teach about non-discriminatory ideas so that they can adequately help them embrace excluded and marginalised communities and be able to build these positive ideas in their learners so that they too embrace excluded and marginalised communities as global citizens.
Hi etambuyu will u be providing pamphlets for future references and will u have internship available
Thank you for your question Annette. More information will be sent to you by Etambuyu through the email you provided.