LET’S EMBRACE THE AGE OF THE MOBILE AND AGILE CLASSROOM
Professor Nalova Lyonga encourages stakeholders in education to adopt the digitalisation of teaching so to advance with the modern times.
The 2022/2023 school year in the Ministry of Secondary Education (MINESEC) will be marked by the improvement of the training provision through a hybrid teaching model encompassing Distance Education and in-presence teaching.
This is the key message, Prof Nalova Lyonga, Minister of Secondary Education, delivered to the Education Community during the ceremony marking the solemn pedagogic resumption of the 2022/2023 school year. All high-ranking officials of the Ministry, including the Secretary-General, Prof Fabien Nkot, the Inspector General of Education (IGE), Jean Paul Marcellin Mebada, the Inspector General of Services (IGS), Akat Fidelis Etta, Directors, Regional Delegates and principals gathered around the Minister of Secondary Education at Government Bilingual High School Essos, on Monday, 29 August 2022.
The solemn pedagogic resumption of the 2022/2023 school year centred on the theme “Digitalisation of teaching: an effective and efficient determining factor for the provision of training at the Ministry of Secondary Education” provided MINESEC officials with an ideal platform to review the strides made so far with the Distance Education and to discuss the way forward for an increased use of digitalisation for teaching purposes.
In her keynote address, Professor Nalova Lyonga instructed teachers to embrace Distance Education and to articulate it with the in-presence teaching mode so as to help learners bridge the technology gap towards advanced countries and achieve greater and better results needed to live in the 21st century.
In the same vein, Jean Paul Marcellin Mebada highlighted the numerous advantages of digitalisation in the pedagogic follow-up of learners while Inspectors Coordinator-General, Jean Pierre Adjaba Biwoli, Philémon Ndi Sara and Fomboh Julius Fombutu, expounded respectively on the situation of Distance Education in Cameroon, how digitalisation is shaping classroom activities and evaluation. The Regional Delegate for the South-West, Mbuah Hannah Etonde, presented the contribution of digitalisation in building educational resilience in violence-prone areas.
All these presentations acknowledged that the digitalisation of teaching is ushering in the era of the mobile and agile classroom for which secondary school teachers should be prime movers, hence this urgent call made by the Minister of Secondary Education: “My colleagues, we have a task to be as good as the first. Well, we might not all get the goals at the same time, but we shall try; we shall try to do the best that we can. Digitalisation gives us the opportunity to be able to do things that people cannot do. We bring the machines to the fore to achieve as much as we can achieve. Welcome the machines and you will find that you are having almost the same results as those in the West”.
A. Ngidjol
Celcom/MINESEC