PREPARING TODAY’S STUDENT-TEACHERS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING PRACTICE IN NIGERIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Teaching practice is one of the innovations in teacher Education Programme which is used as a professional developmental tool in pre-service teacher training programmes. Teaching practice is the culminating point where the relationship among the three major players, the aspiring teacher, university supervisor and the host teacher interface to determine the quality of experience the aspiring teacher will take away. It becomes the bedrock which students on teaching practice, once certified and employed build his/her professional identity. It is therefore necessary that student-teachers are paired with competent, knowledgeable and concern universities/colleges supervisors to help them assume the full range of duties of teacher during this hand - on training period. This paper ...