A total of 75,000 primary and secondary school teachers will be given training on English language teaching so that they can make their students competent in English language.
The government will provide the training under a project titled “English in Action” where high quality trainers will conduct the training programme.
A two and half day training will be given to each of those 75,000 teachers initially and there will also be a follow up training, Siddiqur Rahman, the project director, told the Dhaka Tribune.
He said the government had initiated the project considering the poor communication skills of the school children.
“Many students cannot communicate properly in English even after completing graduation. If the teaching is not good in the primary level, competency in any language is difficult. Without a proper teaching method it is impossible to make students competent in a language,” he said.
The teachers would be trained in modern mythology to ensure that they would provide quality teaching, Siddiqur said, and added that the UK government was assisting in the project which will be completed by 2017.
Sources said some 8,500 teachers had already been given training and the government was running the project worth Tk144 crore since 2009.
Siddiqur said they had visited some schools and already substantial changes were noticed in the schools where teachers were given the training. The students’ communication level would be improved to a great extent once the project was completed, he added.
