Journal of Emerging Trends in Educational Research and Policy Studies: Home

Abstract:
The teaching profession is going through trying times in Nigeria and its nobility is waning. Many people come into the profession out of frustration. However, professional competence vis-a-vis the provision of a common language of skills and knowledge across the various sectors of teaching and the preservation of the existing gains in standards and alignments form the focus of this paper. The purpose of the study therefore is to elucidate the level of competency and proffer solutions where there are shortcomings. The study is significant in the sense that it would sharpen the character and competence of contemporary teachers in Nigeria. It will boost the way teachers are able to respond to what happens in and out of the class, determines the degree to which he is appreciated and valued because that is the point where the line of success in teaching and learning is drawn and competence evolves. People who are sound in learning and character need to be encouraged and accorded the opportunity to train as teachers through generous bursary and scholarship awards. The Teachers' Registration Council (TRC), it is hoped, will provide a stage for the actualization of a world class training of professionally competent teachers. These new crop of teachers will be equipped and empowered to maximize the gains of western education for learners who are uniquely groomed in acceptable, moral and ethical values that will place Nigeria on the contemporary world map.

Keywords: teaching, professionalism, competence, culture, values

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