Influx of Unqualified Teachers in Teaching Biology in Secondary Schools in Sokoto Metropolis

ABSTRACT  

This study aimed at investigating the of unqualified teachers in teaching Biology in secondary school in Sokoto metropolis. With the view of finding solutions to improve the situation at stake.

Criteria used in selecting the schools were random selection techniques in which five schools were selected from each of the two (2) local government areas of the Sokoto metropolis, namely (Sokoto North and Sokoto South respectively), as a sample for this research.

The questionnaire was used as an for the collection of data with three different questions for schools’ principals’, teachers and students. All together twenty (20) teachers, five (5) principals, and two hundred and one (201) students were involved in the study.

Analysis of the data collected revealed that; there is an acute shortage of professionally trained teachers and lack of adequate supply of equipment and teaching facilities hampers the teaching and learning of the subject.

On the basis of the findings, it was recommended that; government should assists faculties and departments of education in the universities and colleges of education for the free – service,

in-service, and training of teachers for the benefit of the schools, also the student in the faculties and departments of education in the schools should be assisted by the government.

INTRODUCTION  

The claim by the Basic Commission (UBEC) that 80% percent of teachers employed in Sokoto state public schools lacked teaching qualification provided further insight into the profound nature of the crisis commonly confronting our educational sector.

The aim of is to provide that will integrate individuals and move them into more meaningful individuals in the society capable of solving their problems.

Qualified teachers have been seen as an effective instrument towards achieving this effective . It is pertinent to mention here that ineffective and poor teaching of as an important key science subject in the school curriculum,

has continued to cause some havoc by shattering the hope and aspiration of some students, especially the ambitious ones.

The National Policy on Education (2004) demands that the minimum acceptable qualification for teaching should be the National Certificate of Education (NCE).

Up from the previous of teacher’s certificate (Grade II), university graduates in disciplines other than education intending to make a career out of teaching are required to obtain a Post-graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE).

The knowledge of biology as a science teaching subject taught in secondary schools require students to give the basic foundation and inquiry which enable them to know the science of their immediate environment in relation to plants,

animals, agricultural activities, sanitation, and ecology, as well as to pursue it as a career in the fields of teaching and health services. 

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StudentsandScholarship Team.