Partnership for Digitizing Teaching in Post-Covid Nigeria: TRCN Master Trainers’ Digital Literacy for Teachers and School Administrators

Aberration in teaching and learning caused by the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is still a stark reality. Efforts at ameliorating havoc in Nigeria necessitated the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Accelerated Fund to support state-driven interventions to address gaps in delivering Education in Emergencies (EiE) and inequalities existing within the education sector. GPE is supported Nigeria with a COVID-19 response programme entitled ‘Continuing learning through alternate home-based platforms’ in 16 states across Nigeria to develop capacities of teachers and school leaders on effective use and application of technology in teaching and learning. The programme included a teacher capacity development component to enable teachers to utilize flexible digital and remote/home-based learning resources. The programme hopes to enhance teachers’ and school leaders’ capacity to deploy technology in classrooms and improve online and offline distance learning methods. Training needs assessment was conducted to ensure digital training was designed to fit the identified digital skills gap of teachers in Nigeria. This paper scrutinized secondary data to discuss various processes of the intervention. It further discussed outcomes of the programme on teachers who were target beneficiaries of the program and education in Nigeria. It then concluded with a focus on benefits of partnerships between donor agencies and Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), the training goal, desired outcomes, methodology, challenges, the way forward, and implications for school administrators on teaching and learning in Nigeria.