By Solister Mogha

Zomba, August 17, Mana: National Initiative for Civic Education (Nice) Trust in Zomba has urged secondary school teachers to be agents of change.

Speaking on Friday during a day-long orientation on mindset change, NICE District Civic Education Officer for Zomba, Kondwani Neba said teachers who are stakeholders have a crucial role of spreading messages that would assist in changing people’s mindset.

Neba said as the country is implementing various developmental programmes, it was important that issues of mindset change are popularized and adopted by the populace.

“The workshop is basically aimed at orientating teachers on various issues that would greatly promote mindset change.

“Our expectation is that after this training, teachers will establish civic education hubs in schools that will be responsible for the advancement and promotion of mindset change activities,” said Neba.

Some of the topics discussed during the workshop included corruption and integrity which were facilitated by officers from the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB).

Head teacher for Sadzi Community Day Secondary School, Rose Chizumeni commended NICE for the training, saying it was educative.  

Chizumemi concurred with Neba that mindset change is a big challenge in the country and promised to use students and other school sessions to spread messages that would add value and change people’s way of thinking.

“Apart from introducing civic education hubs, we will also conduct sessions with parents through parent-teacher association meetings and discuss issues that are of national importance,” she said.

Head teachers and their deputies from various schools within Zomba urban attended the training.