MDGs and Basic Science and Technology Teachers Capacity Building: Rhetoric and Challenges for Nigeria Vision 20:20

Abstract

The nations overall educational development is extricable tied to effectiveness of teachers at all levels especially at primary school level. Unsatisfactory status of basic science and technology (BST) teachers in Nigeria at present necessitates a reappraisal of our BST teachers, preparations towards meeting the Nigerian vision 20:20. This paper takes a critical look at Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) retraining of BST teachers the rhetoric's of retraining BST teachers MDG workshops. Some of the rhetoric's include number of participant to be trained, period of the workshop and funding. In spite of the effort by the Nigerian government in trying to meet up with the rest of the world in the area of science and technology where basic education is the cradle, it is still faced with lot of challenges such as lack of science based basic schools, lack of qualified BST teachers, poor curriculum content and materials. To achieve development in the area of science and technology through Nigerian vision 20:20, it was recommended that science based basic school should be established and its curriculum content and material restructured.