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Pre-Service Teachers Training on Family Life and HIV Education for Colleges of Education

Since the approval of the National Family Life and HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) curriculum by National Council on Education, a lot of efforts have gone into capacity building of teachers at in-service level to enable effective delivery of FLHE topics in their various schools. In order to incorporate FLHE programme into a more structured and sustainable system, Action Health Incorporated (AHI) in collaboration with National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has begun to move beyond the current national focus on in-service training of FLHE teachers, into capacity building at the pre-service level as a strategy to scale up current efforts at training sexuality educators, as well as to ensure a steady supply of teachers who have the requisite technical competence to sustain implementation in educational system.

In view of this, a 2- week training was organized for 23 participants comprising lecturers from three Colleges of Education as well as NCCE officials. The three Colleges of Education include Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Federal College of Education, Abeokuta and Federal College of Education, Omoku representing three out of the six geopolitical zones in Nigeria.

The overall goal of this training is to assist College of Education lecturers/professionals in learning what will enhance their abilities to design and execute effective pre-service teacher training in Family Life and HIV Education.

The training was conducted for 11 (eleven) working days. During the first eight days participants learned the key concepts of the curriculum, the participatory methodology for knowledge and skills delivery, development of lesson plans and their sexuality comfort level was improved, while the last three days were devoted to practicum sessions, review of strategies employed during training and the closing ceremony.

Participatory techniques were employed all through the training to aid learning and the ABC training methodologies were used to address the affective, behavioural and cognitive learning domains.