Achieving Quality Teacher Education Through Teaching Practice in Nigeria: Challenges and The Way Forward
Keywords:
Teacher Education, Teaching Practice, Quality Education, Challenges, NigeriaAbstract
A complete teacher training is supposed to include teaching practice, which is the essential component of quality teacher education. Teaching practice is an essential component of teacher training that is needed to expose trainee to the reality for the process of teaching. This paper discuss the concept of teaching practice, quality teacher education as well as the problems that are faced by student teacher and their experiences, recommendations and the way forward for inclusive teaching practice for quality teacher education were discussed.
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