- Target Improvement In The Welfare And Wellbeing Of The Nigerian Teacher….
By Cyber Era NG Staff
Evolving Trends In Teaching Profession came under scrutiny at the popular Nigerian Television Authority (NTA’s) Good Morning Nigeria, early today, and the panelists agreed that there is a fierce urgency for reforms in the educational sector, if the quality of learning for students and welfare and wellbeing of the teaching staff are to be sustained.
The Panelists comprising an Educationist, Dr. Philip John Hayab, Former Commissioner of Education, Kaduna State, North West, Nigeria, Dr. Shehu Usman Mohammed and the Deputy National President, Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria, Chief ‘Deolu Ogunbanjo were united the teaching environment, quality, quantity and remuneration of teachers, as well as quality of students needed a quick overhaul.
Among the areas touched by the trio of panelists include the need for the provision of Teachers’ Quarters to ensure that teachers are not encumbered by housing and transportation challenges that affect adversely teachers’ productivity and quality of students, in addition to training and retraining of teachers and the need for institutions’ curricular to emphasize hands-on experience as opposed to theoretical orientation of students.
Chief Ogunbanjo, who also doubles as the President of the National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS), specifically advised on the need for Nigeria to move with the rest of the world that has gone digital. According to Ogunbanjo, “our secondary schools, for instance, cannot just go about teaching students blindly…We need to come together as stakeholders in education to chart the way forward.”
Both Drs. Usman and Hayab advised on the need to integrate innovation in our educational curricular in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning and the removal of Education from the concurrent list and placing it on the exclusive list in order for it to be overseen by the federal government (that is believed to lead to more effective and efficient allocation of resources) , adding that this be run as a pilot for about 10 years subject to review.
