Enhancing the Use of Instructional Facilities in Technical Colleges for Qualitative Skills Acquisition in Nigeria

Abstract

Teaching facilities when effectively utilized by competent teachers in the classrooms and workshops have positive results of enhancing skills acquisition and overall academic achievements among students. This paper focused on enhancing the use of instructional facilities in technical colleges for qualitative skill acquisition in Nigeria. The effective implementation of technical college curriculum can be realized through effective provision and utilization of teaching facilities such as tools, equipment, videos, television that could be utilized in teaching various technical trades on the technical colleges. The paper recommended among others that the teachers should be given intermittent  workshop training to enable them update their knowledge in effective utilization and improvisation of teaching facilities to enable them serve the students better in imparting saleable skills that would make them employable.

Keywords: Enhancing, instructional, facilities, technical colleges, skill acquisition