8 August 2008
The Ministry of Education has embarked on a two-day intensive refresher training of Trainers' workshop for writers. Over 30 writers are benefiting from the exercise, which kicked off yesterday at the Williams V.S Tubman High School on 12th Street in Monrovia.
Speaking to The Analyst yesterday, Deputy Minister of Education for Instruction, Mrs. Hester William Catakaw said the training was aimed at developing reading materials for elementary schools. She said selective topics include citizenship, patriotism, values, respect, hard work, discipline, among others.
Madam Catakaw further said the ministry had observed over the years that lack of readers (reading books) for elementary schools has been the problem for teachers in the classroom, and added that it is against this backdrop that the ministry deemed it expedient to conduct the exercise, to chart a new course in developing readers for elementary schools in the country.
The MOE official the MOE also conducted series of training workshops in this direction, but was quick to point out that this is the last refresher workshop. She indicated that at the end of the training, the selected writers and actors will present their manuscripts for evaluation.
She also said writers whose manuscripts will be accepted , will be paid by the Ministry of Education, and that their works will form the basis for developing instructional materials for readers and other visual aids for elementary school program.
Facilitators of the training include the President of the Stella Marie Polytechnic, Sis. Mary Laurene Browne, who will be lecturing on the importance of writers' writing, prominent historian and instructor at the Cuttington Graduate Program, Dr. Joseph Saye Guannu, is expected to lecture on tools used in writing and former head of the Council of State and University of Liberia English Professor, Dr. Wilton Sankawolo.
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