TRAINING NEEDS IN BUSINESS TEACHER PREPARATION FOR IMPLEMENTING THE NEW SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL BUSINESS SUBJECTS CURRICULUM
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It is not an overstatement to say that preparation of a teacher is the main tool for achieving any academic program. Over the years, curriculums for Senior Secondary School (SSS) and others have undergone many reviews in terms of content and structure. The recent one for SSS was widened to include 35 trade subjects out of which business subjects are six Stenography, Data Processing, Storekeeping, Book-keeping, Marketing and Salesmanship. Others already grouped under Business Studies as a field of study include Stores Management, Accounting, Commerce, Office Practice and Insurance. The teachers or 'would be' ones are supposed to be exposed to new technologies, sensitized and supported for continuous capacity building, effective handling of both genders, develop listening and questioning skills, communicate their courses to the public for acceptance and support, imbibe entrepreneurship education and operate on ethical standards to be able to handle the new SSS curriculum. These will enable them overcome some of the problems in business education. Major recommendation was that needed infrastructures should be provided by stakeholders and teachers used to survey any proposed curriculum before the actual provisions and implementations are started.
Keywords: business, teacher preparation, curriculum.
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