AVAILABILITY OF QUALIFIED HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS IN EFFECTIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF HOME ECONOMICS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background to the Study
Education and its benefits can never be over emphasized as the root of economic. Industrial, political scientific and technological and even religions development. all aspect of development is centered on education. Education is one of the vital instrument for development in any nation. Every education system at every level depends heavily on teacher for the execution of its programmes. Teachers are highly essential for successful operational of the education system and important for the educational development.
Teachers at all level of education play the decision role in pivoting the growth and the direction of education. It is an acceptable fact that teacher is the most important cog? In the educational machine and that teachers are highly instruction the access of any educational programme embarked upon by any government. This is because apart from being at the implementation level of any educational policy the realization of these progrmame also depend greatly on teacher dedication and commitment to their work (Adeniyi 1999).
Kaplan and Owings (2001) indicate that two brooded areas define teacher quality. Darling. Hammed (2000) states that the characteristics of teacher quality are verbal ability, subject matter knowledge,, knowledge of teaching and learning the ability to use a wide range of teaching strategies adapted to student needs