A two-day educational programme for Lagos State teachers began in Lagos on Monday with 360 participants drawn from the six educational districts of the State.

This was at the instance of the Lagos State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) and the STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Mathematics) Lagos Project.

The programme is a culmination of over 12months of back-end policy/framework coordinated by Dr. Adetola Salau, Senior Special Assistant on Education to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

Dr. Salau told newsmen during the first day of the programme that the STEAM Lagos Project is designed on four themes.

They are Curriculum Design and Integration, Teacher Engagement/Training, Setup of STEAM Laboratories s and Classrooms, and Student Engagement in curricular STEAM activities.

She added that the programme was designed as a tool to infuse the global STEAM pedagogy of learning into teaching and learning.

The two-day session will afford the participants and staff of TESCOM an opportunity to go through in-depth knowledge and value sharing in STEAM pedagogy, robotics and the internet of things, and soft skills.

“We are faced with a lot of problems in Nigeria; we want our children to be able to identify with these challenges and easily take them home to solve as assignments.

“We want our children to be able to measure up intellectually with other children in the developed world like the U.S, Britain, France, and Canada.

“We don’t want to continue to outsource solutions to our problems to people outside our shores so we want to get them ready with the necessary tools for solving problems,’’ Salau stressed.

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Mr. Adeleke Kara, who represented TESCOM’s boss Mrs. Elizabeth Ariyo, said that the ongoing exercise would go a long way to develop teachers in the right way.

“We cannot exclude technology from our present-day activities. A typical example was the adoption of online teaching and learning at the outset of COVID-19,’’ Kara said.