CAPACITY BUILDING PROGRAMMES AND PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN METHOD OF TEACHING IN SOUTHWESTERN NIGERIA

Abstract

Primary education in Nigeria faces a lot of challenges especially in appropriating proper method of teaching. It appears teachers are not skilful enough in the usage of teaching methodology that will motivate learners. Research evidence showed that the major problem in the nursery and primary schools is the poor methods used by the teachers to impart knowledge. This study aimed at finding out the influence of capacity building programme on teacher effectiveness in method of teaching. The study raised a major research question and formulated one hypothesis. The study adopted descriptive survey design. The study population covered all teachers in the public primary schools in Southwestern Nigeria. A sample of 610 participants was made through multistage sampling technique. Two validated instruments titled four Point Likert Scale (Questionnaire), (0.78) and Teacher Observation Checklist {TOC}, (0.82) were used for data collection while descriptive statistics and linear regression were used for data analysis at 0.05 level of significance. The results revealed a weighted average mean of 3.71 which showed that most of the teachers observed were effective in the method of teaching employed during teaching-learning process while capacity building has influence on teacher effectiveness in teaching delivery/pedagogy and was significant at [F_(1,610)=65.621, p<0.05]. The study recommended that government should put in more effort in building primary school teachers capacity, given that primary education is the foundation of all other levels