Providing Learning Solutions In Our Community

Providing Learning Solutions In Our CommunityRCE-Minna Doing It Differently (RCE-Minna-Did) Model6TH AFRICAN REGIONAL CENTRE OF EXPERTISE CONFERENCENairobi-Kenya24th-26th August, 2016

Isah Ibn MohammedRCE MINNA, Nigeria

Presentation outline

About RCE Minna

Opening

DID Model; An Overview

Projects this Year Alone

Impact of the DID Model

Recommendations

Closing

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a dynamic concept that encompasses a new vision of education that seeks to empower people of all ages to assume responsibility for creating and enjoying a sustainable future. (UNU-IAS)

About RCE Minna

The Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Minna was acknowledged in November, 2011 by the UNU-IAS.

RCE Minna VisionA populace educated in the importance of Sustainable Development and how it can contribute to a sustainable and holistically wealthier society.

1. Opening Schools provide the foundation of good education, they also provide social-infrastructure to students to put them in tune with 21st Century-methods of learning revolving around core-curriculum while neglecting a very important aspect of learning; informal and non-formal education. And for this reason, learning becomes quite difficult for some students who ache for other forms of learning aside the rigour of the paper and pen.

We always try to stay within the safe-fence the conventional-syllabus; the convenient-classroom delivery which havent brought us great results in a variety of spheres. Without doing-things-differently in technology, communication, etc where would we be today?

2. Doing it Differently Model (DIDM) Doing-It-Differently Model adopted from Foundation for African Arts and Letters New York through IBBU Center for Learning Communities,; simply puts the student in the center-stage employing non-formal educational programs and creating learning environment outside the classroom to blend classroom work, hinging on the major thrust of ESDRCE Minna-DIDM will meet the needs of students in our community who ache for other forms of learning aside the rigor of the class room. This will help development the students knowledge on different subject matters by so doing, we deliver the ESD to people and support the realization of the four major thrusts of the ESD as identified in Chapter 36 of Agenda 21; we are;

The promotion and improvement of basic education

Reorienting existing education at all levels to address sustainable development

Developing public understanding and awareness of sustainability

Training and re-training

Major ThrustThe Regional Center of Expertise (RCE Minna) is founded to contribute to these efforts and to mobilize formal and non-formal sectors to deliver the ESD to the people in our community.

3.0 Projects this Year Alone;

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3.2 Leadership and capacity training program (LCTP)Himma International CollegeDECS NEW College

3.3 Green Fingers Garden Club & RCE Minna

3.4 Minna Children's Day Spelling Bee Champtheme: Safeguarding the Future of the Nigerian Child through Sustainable Development Goals

3.5 World Environment Day (WED) 2016

3.6 1st African Youth Virtual Conference Theme: Regional Perspective on Youth Empowerment and Vocational Training

3.7 RCE Minna High School Clubs

4.0 Impact of the DID ModelDeveloping understanding and awareness of high school students and young people as regards Education for sustainable development (ESD) and SDGs

Organize out-of-class activities that enhanced intellectual discourse and collective problem solving among high school students and young people in general.

Redistribution of students time and learning experiences and to initiate communities among students, among students and teachers.Enhancing the Value of Classroom Experiences

4.1 Impact of the DID Model (Cont..)Bringing RCE activities closer to high school students and young people general To arise high school students interest on environmental issues so that they can draw their curiosity and intelligence to enable them take independent initiatives towards sustainable environmental solutions within their own networks. One crucial benefit of DIDM is the creation of social network amongst students. Student from different schools within our community, with different background, different thinking and perception of life will be able to share knowledge, make new acquaintances, friendships and contacts within their community and forms active networks to take responsibility in their immediate environment.

5.0 RecommendationsStudies show that the way we learn doesnt always match up with the way we are taught. So, if we hope to give high school students another avenue to lifelong learning, there is the need to employ new forms of teaching and learning, such a model, the RCE Minna DIDM brings to fore inline with ESD and SDG goal 4, which stresses non formal education.RCEs across the continent must crowd source young people to play active role in institutionalizing ESD across local communities through enhanced and practical awareness creation on sustainable development.Going forward, we suggest that RCE Youth Networks across RCE Regions take queue from RCE Minna DIDM and initiative learning communities to enable high school students and young people in general learn and have fun.

6.0 Closing Our continents hope is blurred by citizens inheritances of fractured leadership in all spheres, particularly in education but one way we can stop our spirits from being continually amputated is to take on the eagle wings. Because the rains continue to threaten, we should in good counsel take our option of flight and soar above the clouds, rise past a looming drenched and dripping future. Lets go beyond our classrooms & our campuses. Lets be the change that we want. (Osita Aniemeka, 2010).

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