The mothers and young people in who teach at the Goducate literacy centers in Sabah believe in the principle that learning is a process. This gives them the encouragement never to stop learning. Hence every time a training schedule is announced everyone, whether older teacher or new one, is ready and excited.
We have a waiting list of invitations from villages requesting us to open learning centers for them. They were asked to identify individuals in their community able and willing to be trained as teachers. This recent round of training conducted during the second and third week of December and the first week of January was attended by 54 people—-44 existing and 10 potential teachers. The training was facilitated by our head trainer and some of our pioneer teachers, as well as by the visiting trainer from the Goducate Training Center in Iloilo, Philippines, who has been coming every year to help with the training. For the training sessions, the teachers were broken up by their level of knowledge and experience.
Our visiting trainer commented on the big improvements she has seen in the performance of the teachers through the years. With the training of the new teachers, we will be opening a few more centers soon. These new teachers will be assisted by the more experienced teachers from other centers until such time as they are fit and confident to teach on their own.
Although this round of training has just been completed, all the teachers know that there will be more to come. Training sessions are held every quarter. Goducate believes that it is important to maintain the quality of the teachers’ performance through regular training.
