In a bid to enhance government Free Quality Education Programme in the country, Voluntary Service Overseas over the past one year has introduced the “Unlocking Talent through Technology Project” in Kailahun and Pujehun Districts.
The pilot Project which supports twenty schools in the two Districts is a development approach to improve early grade that blends improved teachers’ practice and child centered methodologies through technology learning.
The Project Manager, Unlocking Talent through Technology Project Voluntary Service Overseas Aisha Bangura- Turay said the project aims at improving literacy and numeracy skills of pupils in classes one and two by introducing them to early technology learning.
She said the introduction of tablets learning to primary schools in remote communities was to meet government’s free quality education standards through technology learning and that the tablets given to the twenty schools are installed with all the syllabuses and lesson notes for pupils and teachers.
The Field Manager and the Project Officer, Save the Children Pujehun District Afred Kargbo and Bobson Kamara respectively, said with the intervention of the Unlocking Talent through technology Project it will make learning easier for the pupils and teachers as the method of teaching in classes one to three has become a serious problem.
Both said the lack of quality teachers in the country, especially in primary schools is of a great challenge, noting the significance of the technology learning to teach their pupils by using tablets already loaded with the syllabus and lesson notes.
The Chairman Education Committee Kailahun District Council Councillor Awuni Moiwo Makieu lauded VSO for involving the council and pleaded for an extension of the project to other communities in the District.