Malam Adamu Adamu, Minister of
Education, said on Tuesday decried the quality of teachers produced by teacher
education institutions and their classroom performance.
Adamu said this in his address at
a two-day Stakeholders retreat/workshop organised by the Teachers Registration
Council of Nigeria (TRCN) in Akwanga, Nasarawa.
Adamu, represented by Alhaji
Muhammed Karage, Director, Basic and Secondary Education, Ministry of
Education said government was already looking into the situation.
“It has been said times without
number that no educational system can rise above its teachers.
“Hence, teacher professionalism
issues have to be addressed now to save the profession from total collapse.
“Teacher education encompasees
both the first form of professional training that prospective teachers receive
and the continous professional development of serving teachers,” he said.
He said using students’
performance as a proxy measure of teacher quality, the results of the current
monitoring of learning achievement at which performance of pupils was below 50
per cent in literacy, numeracy and life skills, shows the poor quality of
teaching.
Adamu listed some of the
challenges facing teacher education in Nigeria to include low quality of
entrants into pre-service training; failure of the College and Faculties of
Education to match teacher supply with demand and inadequate funding of teacher
education.
He listed others to include bad
teaching practice and implementation; and non-implementaion of the national
teacher education policy; poor remuneration of teachers and non-implementation
of teachers salary.
Adamu said that the Ministry
would ensure that all the 151 Colleges of Education and 200 National Teachers
Institute study centres keyed into the teacher education reforms to enhance
professionalism.
He added that the ministry
through the TRCN would also ensure that the 29 NCE curricular are updated
regularly, and also ensure the launch of the National Teachers Education
Policy.
The minister explained that the
government would also ensure the improvement of the quality of teachers through
consistent teacher professional development.
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