Innovative Tools for Teaching Science and Technology Education: Beacons for Self-Reliance.

Abstract

Innovation is a product of creative and innovative skills learnt from the classroom. Innovation paves way to entrepreneurship that also leads to self-reliance. This paper focused on the innovative teaching tools that can be used by teachers in schools to enhance creativity and innovation among learners capable of making them to be self-reliant. It examines the weaknesse¢ of traditional method of teaching science and technology education that could be bridged by the innovative tools if properly utilized. It went further to suggest some ways teachers could follow in order to teach innovation in schools. It concluded that if innovative tools and the ways of teaching innovation are implemented by teachers in schools, students will become creative and innovative and eventually become entrepreneurs that could lead the nation to be self-reliant.