Effects of Teacher Preparation on Students Academic Achievements in SS2 Biology Practicals

Abstract

Teacher preparation is essential if the educational sector of any society wants to grow towards achieving its goals and meeting its teacher’s needs. If teachers are empowered properly through effective training, the task of teaching and learning will become a mirage. Teacher’s preparation is the training undertaken by prospective teachers before being employed in teaching (Gwany, 2005). Effective teacher preparation is a very vital instrument for the development and transformation of any nation. Good teacher preparation programmes will give birth to quality teachers who in turn will produce quality school leavers, quality school leavers will give quality manpower in all spheres of life that can support, sustain and trigger development. Therefore, any teacher education programme that is deficient calls for concern,  It is on this basis that the Federal Government of Nigeria prescribed the current curriculum content for teacher education programmes that can help produce quality teachers who will educate Nigerian citizens. Some of these teachers are to teach biology at the senior secondary level.