Title: COMPETENCIES REQUIRED BY TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING TEACHERS FOR INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY

Authors:
Nungse, Nuhu I., Ugwoke, Chinyere K., Tongshuwal, John M. & Lat, Juliana M.

Abstract: Abstract The study adopted a cross sectional survey design basically to determine the competencies required of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) teachers for improving TVET Instructional delivery in Nigeria. To achieve this basic objective, a structured questionnaire tagged competency questionnaire (CQ) was designed and administered to six curriculum experts and 15 lecturers from four tertiary Institutions offering TVET in Nigeria. The entire population was used for the study since the population size was small. The reliability of the instrument was established as 0.89 using cronbach‟s alpha coefficient. Findings of the study depicts that the respondents all agreed that the questionnaire items were required as the competencies for improving the quality of TVET Instructional delivery in Nigeria. The competencies were of three domains which included: facilitating competency, professional competency and communication competency all with their educational implications for TVET facilitators. The study recommended that TVET instructional delivery should be best performed through facilitating process of Socratic and social constructivist‟s method of learning where learners actively participate in discovering knowledge and solving problems. TVET Instructional delivery should not be strictly through teaching approach as in the case of traditional method were the teacher act as the knowledge conduit. Key words: Competency, TVET, Facilitator, Instructional Delivery

Publication Date: 2018-12-06