About NCEF-New Creation Educational Foundation

ACTIVITIES OF NCEF MARCH 1998-DATE

A quick appraisal of developmental problems faced by children particularly in the area of learning, otherwise called learning difficulties has been a subject of neglect anytime the issue is brought to the surface. Incidentally academic failure associated with these problems results in fundamental adjustment and adaptive problems that eventually plague on our society.

We need to respond quickly even when we understand that parents who are direct victims of these problems are reluctant to discuss them because of stigmatization or other wrong or perceived misunderstanding of the problem.

The need for articulated remedies or approach to address issues of learning difficulties, poor reading culture, early childhood education, the gifted and talented education, mandatory professional development of teachers, availability of educational materials and resources etc. is the desire of New Creation Educational Foundation aimed at making learning easier for all.

ORIGIN OF THE ORGANIZATION:

New Creation Educational Foundation (NCEF) originated from Nigeria as New Creation Learning Clinic in March 1998. After fulfilment of certain requirements by the corporate affairs commission, it was transformed into a full-fledged educational foundation under the umbrella name NEW CREATION EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (NCEF) registered under COMPANIES AND ALLIED MATTERS DECREE NO.1, 1990 (PART C-INCORPORATED TRUSTEES) with IT/CERT. NO.16,627===

In Nigeria, NCEF is recognized for its exemplary activities of helping children and leaners overcome learning difficulties. In recognition of our activities, the federal ministry of education in February 2004, approved the registration and recognition of New Creation Educational Foundation as NGO in partnership with the ministry.

The New Creation Educational Foundation (NCEF) is in partnership with the federal ministry of education, Nigeria, to provide auxiliary educational support services to the education sector.

For Emphasis, see the following

“Special Education is a service not a place”

Special Education is not simply a place where children go. A special Education programme needs to be responsive to individual students and their family’s needs. In order to do this, we offer a range of flexible highly individualized programmes and services through the following means:

❖ Identification and diagnostic assessment of children in various subjects.
❖ School support service for children in mainstream school.
❖ Full-time remediation services for children with severe difficulties.
❖ After school-hours-service for children in regular schools.

Our Special Need Department is the bedrock of the organization known as New Creation Learning Clinic (NCLC). NCLC performs the function of consultancy, therapeutic functions and educational activities associated with learning disabilities or difficulties. It is however pertinent to state that we do not handle or deal with cases of mental retardation, but specifically, that of learning difficulties. Although they both have concomitant interrelatedness, learning difficulties here, refers to the problem that impedes learning in children, adolescents and adults, affecting their schooling and adjustment in society. These problems affect the three domains of learning.

❖ Cognitive
❖ Affective
❖ Psychomotor processes

Learning difficulties oftentimes manifest in such areas as oral motor skills (poor speech and language development skills), dyslexia and dysgraphia: resulting in poor reading ability, writing and spelling skills, mathematical calculation and mathematical reasoning failure, poor reasoning and thinking skills, slow learners. Others include poor motor skills, (handwriting) reading comprehension skills, listening and auditory skills, social and emotional difficulties to learning resulting in lack of confidence etc.

All these and other related cases may be classified as learning difficulties and therefore requires a special teacher, equipped with special needs materials and techniques, to correct the child.

The NEW CREATION LEARNING CLINIC cater for a variety of students with special needs including those with autism, stuttering and cluttering, learning disabilities, receptive and expressive language problems, social and emotional disorders, dyslexia and dysgraphia, attention deficit disorders / attention deficit hyperactive disorder (ADD&ADHD), mathematical calculation, mathematical reasoning and varying degrees of intellectual disabilities.

Education Support Services

Educational Support Services (ESS) provides a variety of free services for students to discover their individual academic skills and to become self-sufficient, independent, life-long learners. Giving parents the right tools to help their children learn.

Many of the services are offered in the Educational Support Center (ESC)

Supporting Education brings together services that support every aspect of a child’s journey through school and beyond. We build bright futures through expert support, inspiring staff and cutting-edge technology.

Special Needs Intervention Service

“Special Needs lessons are not for stupid people, but are in fact, for people that are special, talented and gifted in other areas of life and it's up to you to find out what those areas are”

Says Richard Branson. Founder of Virgin Atlantic.

When A CHILD Has Difficulties in

Mathematical Calculation.
Mathematical Reasoning.
Expressive and Receptive Language Skills.
Oral Expression.
Gross & Fine Motor skills.
Reading Skills
Writing Skills
Spelling skills.
Speech & Communication Skills etc.

What the Child need is A Special Educational Therapy for Correction.

IF YOU NEED HELP FOR YOUR CHILD, PLEASE CONTACT US.

NEW CREATION TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTE

The teacher institute is established for continuous capacity development and training of teachers. The programmes of the institute are characterized by intensive practical activities structured to handle teachers who already in the application stage. The teachers’ institute help to reengineer and reposition the educational development standards and quality to fill the present development and technological needs for the enhancement of Knowledge in the teaching profession.

OBJECTIVES OF THE TEACHER INSTITUTE

The Institute’s objective is to equip career teachers, education officers, administrators, policy makers and owners of schools, with the knowledge of how to administer and identify defective learning skills in children, as well as recommending and applying corrective measures.

Provide induction courses that would help afresh and resharpen professionals
Retrain Para-educational personnel, in contemporary methods to problem solving.
Create practical forum to express, explain, discuss and exchange experiences as it affects relationships between children, parents, teachers and the community.
Create avenue to learn to construct learning materials such as book production, educational games etc.

SOLVING READING PROBLEMS IN NIGERIA

Current researches have proved that the Nigerian child at pre-primary, primary, secondary and even to the tertiary level has reading problems. Nigerian school students are poor readers who have problems in comprehension of what they read. The present happenings in Nigeria and confirmation from researches and individual like Umon (1968) Omojuwa (1985) (Iheanacho 1998) (Don & Augustina Tawo 2005, 2007 & 2008) in the area of reading leads to the following factors which are responsible to the poor reading culture and failure among the vast majority of Nigerian children and youths. These factors are as follows:

Instructional factors (inadequate materials/facilities for teaching, reading)
Non-availability of teachers training in reading skills.
Problem of poor libraries or not at all.
Overcrowded classroom.
Problem of Adult readers as Models.
And many others.

It is possible to have a child who can pronounce words very well, without understanding what he is reading, we say such a child has reading disorder because he is unable to obtain meaning from printed language.

Researches have shown that most children with reading disorder fall into one of the following categories.

The child recites from the book without recognition or understanding of printed words.
The child call words from the book with correct pronunciation but without understanding.
The child can read easy books but not the level of books used in his class.
The child is in upper primary and has not learnt to read at all.

Libraries are the source of information; therefore, information to be obtained through reading is mostly from libraries. We all know that a library plays an important role in providing information.

One very glaring area of neglect in library development in Nigeria is the total absence of children’s libraries in many parts of the country especially at the local government level. A children library properly funded and equipped will encourage the child in his life to think for him or herself.

Children’s library would provide a lot of exciting materials, printed and audio-visual, to stimulate and inculcate the skills of independent inquiry which could influence them, irrespective of their levels of attainment.

International School Management Organization (ISMO)

School management means running the school along the desired educational policies. It takes into account all aspects of the school (policies, material and human resources, programmes, activities, equipment etc.) and integrates them into a fruitful whole. In simple words it means managing the affairs of a school.

We provide international school management support service to transform schools.

Funding Higher Education Projects & Research

Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty.

Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term.

In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills.

For Higher Education and Research to be at the forefront of teaching and science and provide the highest quality of education, they need to be able to generate sources beyond the traditional ones. These sources often come in the forms of grants and tenders coming from many bilateral and multinational donors and organizations. Due to globalization and the mobility, these funds have never been so large and accessible as they are today

At NCEF we help Institutions identify the most significant ones for their work, and enable them build their capabilities in the following areas

Identification of the Sources of Funding
Preparing a Good Grant Proposal
How to Implement the Project with the Received Funding

Our team will help you achieve the above goals, to avoid frustration, meet reporting requirements, improve grant management process, and avoid complications and penalties.

Conferences & Meetings

Conference planning, has been one of NCEF's core services for many years. Our success in devising and coordinating high-level conferences is essentially based on a concrete understanding of our role as professional conference organizers.

Decades of experience as a group have taught us a valuable lesson - event planning and conference organizing require having a flexible long-term vision. Conferences and events must address evolving academic needs and those needs expand over time. Therefore, our conference organizing services always reflect the current environment.

Organizing a congress, a seminar or any academic event for that matter requires special skills. Professionals really make the difference. You can count on NCEF for various aspects of your event - support of offers, development of a scientific program, processing of abstracts, logistics, administration, marketing and more.

Publications

Over 5,000,000 theses are written worldwide in the research industry, annually. In addition to this are the numerous research notes, articles, and the many creative concepts of professors, universities and institutions. At NCEF Publications, we make scientific information publicly available, and allow the rest of the academic audience to evaluate the quality of the research.

There are various types of publications like Scholarly Journals, Professionals or Trade Publications, Popular and General Interests Magazines.

Scientific publications have their own identity, place and necessity. The Academic publications have a peer review system which maintains novelty, applicability and advancement in a given field of knowledge.

There is fast online publication process to enhance the publication frequency and reduce the in-process time expenditure.

Scient metrics have developed which is the scientific measurement of the work of scientists, especially by way of analyzing their publications and the citations within them.

Citations of the references in the publications give credit to authors whose work they use and avoid plagiarism.

Impact factor is used for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed to be more important than those with lower ones.

Other related Indices are h-Index, I10-index etc. The review throws light on above discussed areas which will be helpful for budding researchers to get acquainted with of the publication related facts."

Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities

Research and experimental development (R&D) comprise creative and systematic work undertaken in order to increase the stock of knowledge – including knowledge of humankind, culture and society – and to devise new applications of available knowledge.

The methods use to collect data in experimental studies is experimental design.

Social Scientist often use experimental research design to study and test behaviors in humans and animals.

Visual Conferences

How Virtual Conferences Have Rescued the Academic Community

Academic conferences, seminars, lectures and the like, which are incredibly crucial to the growth and sustenance of innovation and learning within the academic community have been the worst hit by this COVID 19 pandemic OF 2020

A lot of students, research professionals, educators, scientists, scholars, academics and others have been adversely affected as a result of the nation and region-wide lockdowns that have been imposed in their respective locations.

All Our Academic Research Conferences also have the Virtual Conference Component attached to it.

NEW CREATION PUBLICATIONS

NCEF Engages in Research and Publications of Fun and Colourful Educational Materials for Problem -Solving Skills.

With the help of our partners since inception to date, we have published a number of text and workbooks, worksheets, assessment tools, journals, conference proceedings, catalogues, manuscripts etc.