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The Strategies For Effective Teaching Of Biology In The Secondary Schools
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Considering biology’s many branches and vast application in every field
of human endeavor as enunciated above the importance of biology in the
nations economic development cannot be over emphasized. It is therefore
becomes very necessary that effort are geared towards finding a last
solution to the students academic poor performances in the subject. To
this end several factors have been identified by researchers as been
responsible for the effective teaching and learning which definitely
lead to poor performances. These includes the following; lack of
qualified and experienced teachers, lack of educational instructional
materials like textbook, visual and audio visual aids, laboratories,
conducive learning environment, over loaded syllabuses, lack of interest
on the parts of the students, poor teaching method/interaction pattern
on the parts of the teachers, large class size/high teacher, family
background (Nwagbo, 2011).
Ncharam (2008) has established
that students inability to seat down and study, comprehend what the
curriculum talked about and this highly result to poor performances in
external examination. This also results to general backwardness in
technological and scientific advancement. Akpan (2009) rightly
documented that proper understanding of concept and concentration
science related subject and this contribute to no small measure to
better the academics achievement and performances of students. He went
further to say that, to such students there is therefore no nature of
manipulated questions that might be posed to them in that particular
concept that they cannot be able to provide solutions to, since they
have mastery and regular practice of the concept involved in the
question. This would give the students the opportunity to think
ethically, manage and use available resources within their environment
effectively to develop the Nation.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
The poor performance of the secondary school students in Biology
examinations (such as in SSCE and JAMB examinations had been a matter of
concern to both the government and the Nigerian society.
This
is because Biology is one of the most important science subjects since
it deals with life and living things. In addition, a sound knowledge of
Biology will prepare the student for degree programme on such vital
courses as medicine, pharmacy, microbiology, nursing and many others.
Despite all the efforts being made by the various ministries of
Education in the country to enhance students’ performance in Biology,
the problem still remains. Why do students perform poorly in biology
examination? What are the current methods of teaching biology in
secondary? What are the strategies for effective teaching of biology in
secondary schools? These questions present the problems that
necessitated this research.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose these researches are as follows:
i.. To highlight and discuss the relevance of well-equipped laboratory to the teaching of biology in the secondary schools.
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To identify the impact of regular test/assessments both practical tests
and problems — type tests on students’ proficiency in biology.
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To ascertain the effect of the use of professional biology teachers
(resources teachers) on the teaching of biology in secondary schools.
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