The Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo, has canvassed the need for public and private schools to  rethink what they teach pupils to ensure they inculcate in them the 21st Century skills.

Mrs. Adefisayo stated this yesterday at yearly Continuous Development Training for Educators by World Organisation for Early Childhood Education (OMEP), Lagos State Chapter.

The theme of this year training is: “Early Childhood Education in the 21st Century: Inspire, Explore and Create”.

The commissioner said such skills must be integrated in learning whether in nursery, primary or secondary school education.

She mentioned a few of them, including creating creative and critical thinking, collaboration and team-work, digital literacy, personal leadership and ability to tackle challenges.

She advised teachers to teach the pupils about climate change and environmental sustainability to enable them contribute solutions to global warming, flooding and refuse disposal.

The commissioner said the state government would collaborate with the association in the areas of training and best practices for quality education.

According to her, public school teachers were sponsored to the training to enable them benefit from the programme. She congratulated the organisation for concentrating on early child education for many years.

The commissioner said she loved their slogans, which is “Low cost, no cost” designed to make learning affordable and sustainable.