Teaching Practice in the Teacher Education Training Programme for Effective Implementation of the 9-Year Universal Basic Education (UBE) in Nigeria.

Abstract

The paper underscores the relevance of the teaching practice exercise of the teacher training education programme in Nigeria Universities and the other teacher training institutions. It is done with the purpose of preparing the universities in the production of teachers for the effective implementation of the 9-year UBE programme. The 9-year UBE programme is in response to the current reform in the country as illustrated in the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS) which has placed education at the core of its framework initiatives. Thus, the paper examines and critically indentified some of the factors accentuate the teaching practice exercise as a relevant process in the production of efficient teachers for the 9-year programme. Strategies are evolved in order to improve on the exercise.