Competencies of Nigerian Graduate Teachers: The Insiders' Perspectives

Autor/inn/en	Wodi, Iniye Irene; Oluwatayo, Gbenga Kayode; Onyima, Nonye Blessing
Titel	Competencies of Nigerian Graduate Teachers: The Insiders' Perspectives
Quelle	In: African Higher Education Review, 8 (2014) 1, S.11-21 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2141-1905
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Teacher Competencies; Teacher Education Programs; College Graduates; Graduate Surveys; College Outcomes Assessment; Questionnaires; Teacher Competency Testing; Technological Literacy; Teaching Skills; Teacher Attitudes; Administrator Attitudes; Communication Skills; Teacher Effectiveness; Administrator Effectiveness; Elementary School Teachers; Secondary School Teachers; College Faculty; Principals; Department Heads; Interpersonal Competence; Faculty Development; Evaluation; Leadership Effectiveness; Teacher Leadership; Hypothesis Testing; Comparative Analysis; Nigeria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehrkunst; Hochschulabsolvent; Hochschulabsolventin; Fragebogen; Technisches Wissen; Lehrbefähigung; Lehrkompetenz; Unterrichtsbefähigung; Lehrerverhalten; Kommunikationsstil; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Fakultät; Principal; Schulleiter; Interpersonale Kompetenz; Evaluierung; Führungseffizienz; Lehrerfunktionsstelle; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest
Abstract	The study was carried out to establish the competencies of graduate teachers who graduated from teacher education programs between the year 2005 and 2010. Multi-stage sampling was used in selecting 432 respondents comprising educational administrators and graduate teachers working in the three levels of education across two states of Southern Nigeria. A questionnaire titled Graduates Competency Questionnaire, which was constructed and validated by the researchers, was used in collecting data from the respondents. The result shows that the teachers possess low competence in ICT skills. The results indicated that there was no significant difference in the perceptions of graduate teachers and educational administrators (direct supervisors) on the competences of graduate teachers in areas of pedagogic (DF = 590, t = 1.75, a = 0.08), communication (Df = 590, t = 0.84, a = 0.40), and ICT (Df = 590, t = 1.93, a = 0.05) skills among other findings. It was therefore, recommended that the current curriculum of teacher education programs in Nigerian institutions of higher learning be improved upon in order to take care of areas of poor competence with regards to graduate teachers. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01