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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING


                                  


The aim of this course is to guide the students in personal development by providing worthy mentors for them. The course also aims to shift the minds of the students from a "consumer" citizen to a "producer" citizen. It seeks to help them see a bigger and brighter future in the corner of their school.

The course has been structured in a way that it will ignite the desire of the student to be self motivated to develop beyond what happens in class and also become someone that can push through the limitations they are currently experiencing. We are very optimistic that this training will help them to grow virtues that can eventually make them succeed.

PDC at the famous Bishop Philips Academy, Ibadan

Five modules have been highlighted and explained in the "Learn, Apply, Review" format recommended by Forbes. "Learn" refers to the explanation of a term. "Apply" is a classwork or an assignment to test if the students really understand what they learned and "Review" is the marking  and/or discussion of the classwork or assignment by the instructor.

We will have 12 contacts with 25 students in 5 schools. The first and last contact is for introduction and conclusion respectively. The remaining 10 contacts is shared equally by the 5 modules, so each module has 2 contacts. The first contact of a module will be used for Learn and Apply while the second contact for the module will be for Review which is mostly a one-on-one thing as specified in the curriculum.

I encourage you to open up as much as you can to them so that they can see you as an example that they can become. I believe that everyone is a story and your story is worth hearing and that is why your request to join us was granted.


Also, have faith in the students and encourage them to become all that they can become even in this period. Give them the widest possible playing ground. Share as many stories as you know that goes in line with the module. Students relate more with stories.

The modules were arranged sequentially and must be followed in the way it is written here. This curriculum has been structured in the most simple way for you to understand.
A-DRIVE

Academic excellence remains a highly priced trophy even at this time and students need enough inspiration and motivation to pursue it with all their might. We speak to the secondary school students,using stories to inspire and motivate them on the assembly ground towards academic excellence. So far, we have reached over 1,000 students with this project and hop to cover the entire country as we get more hands.



GraceLink

                                  
With GraceLink, we connect indigent students with willing sponsors so that the aspirations of everyone can be attained. We have been the Angel to many students and we are open to receiving more requests and sponsors.

Vice principals of CHS Kumapayi with leaders of FBN at the presentation of a wheel chair to a student.

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