TRAINNING SKILLS REQUIRED BY BUSINESS EDUCATION LECTURERS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING OF BUSINESS COURSES IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

As a result of rapid increase of technological advancement and the complexity of human and societal nature, business education teachers’ need adequate and commensurate training and development programmes in modern classroom environment especially in the educational sector. The study was poised to assess training of business education teachers in selected tertiary institutions in Rivers Slate. Three research questions a well as three hypotheses were generated and used/or the study Survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study as made up of 47 male and female Business Education teachers that were drawn from three selected tertiary institution in Rivers State. Sample size was of the same population because the size was manageable. Mean and standard deviation was used to analysed the research questions and t-test was used to test the generated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. ft was revealed in the study that business education teachers rated all the items on the research question as needed. The management of tertiary institutions should redesign training programmes for business educators in their schools, professional body in business education should be allowed to design the training packages for universities; and the promotions of staff should not be made only with the criteria of years spent but also on the areas of skills/performance of business educators.

Keywords; Teaching Skills, and Business Education