TEACHERS’ CHARACTERISTICS AND PUPILS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study Teachers are essential in the entire educational system of any nation and are pivots on which education wheels revolve. Ashimole (2011) emphasized that teaching and learning depends largely on teachers, and that it is on teachers’ number, quality and devotion…
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study There is growing interest in the professional development of educators as the demands, ex-pectations, and requirements of teacher educa- tion increasingly come under scrutiny (Louhran 2014). What the teacher does, influences, the whole process of learning. Effective teacher produces better performing students (Akiri 2013). Van den Bergh…
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The teaching-learning process involves a vast array of interventional process at the center of which is the success of any educational programme. In spite of the technological breakthrough in audio-visual equipment, teacher has remained indispensable since they constitute the bulwark in which educational machines are made to…