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Abstract:
This paper identifies that most science teachers are faced with a number problems, and that the rapid development of science and technology coupled with substantial socio-economic growth poses unprecedented challenges to Nigeria's science education programme. Such development it is argued ordains that science education define its contents more sharply with regard to environment, information and teaching strategies. Discovery approach, the use laboratory, interactive demonstrations and classroom control were examined as validated instructional design features that benefit diverse learners and in turn accommodate the full range of students' diversity that teachers are likely to routinely encounter. The central idea is that by adopting a framework based on the different approaches including those not even mentioned in this paper, science teachers would definitely transform to become very effective with focus on a result oriented science teaching and learning

Keywords: result-oriented, teaching innovations, scientific enterprise, scientific attitude, diverse learners, learning context, process skills

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