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

Abstract:
Education is the greatest hope of a nation, particularly for a developing country such as ours. Without any doubt Nigerian has for long realized its importance, teacher education should be basically related to every phase of development in Nigeria for wherever one turns, be it economic, political or social spheres of activities, one is faced with the ever recurring problem of trained manpower needs: but no adequate training can take place without competent teachers to handle the programmes. The paper highlights the perennial problems of teachers and teaching and the management of education in general to concretize education foundation most importantly laying the foundation on the quality of teachers emphasizing more on teacher's education, since no education system can rise above the quality of its teachers. Problems of education were discussed among which include lack of qualified teachers, few instructional input, shortage of classroom and a host of others, Finally some recommendations were proffered like government ensuring the implementation of national policy on primary education, agencies concerned with registration of teachers and regulating their training should evolve more vibrant methodologies for delivering on their mandate, adequate funding, employing only professionally trained, talented as well as screened teachers, and new salary structure for teachers to enhance job satisfaction for teachers which will leads to sustainable national development.

Keywords: Teacher Education, Teacher Quality, Capacity Building, Sustainable National Development

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