UTILIZATION OF INNOVATIVE SCIENCE TEACHING STRATEGIES BY BIOLOGY TECHEARS IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SOUTH WEST, NIGERIA

Abstract

Teachers have created a number of innovative teaching techniques that, when applied, have been shown to improve students' academic performance. Unfortunately, biology students continue to perform below expectations, which leads to the belief that teachers are not utilizing a variety of teaching strategies to address the challenges involved in teaching and learning the subject. This study looked into how senior biology teachers in South-West Nigerian schools used a few innovative teaching techniques. The study aimed to ascertain the extent to which biology classrooms employ innovative teaching practices. The objectives of the study was to determine the level of utilization of innovative teaching strategies in biology classrooms. A survey-style descriptive research design was employed. All senior secondary school science instructors in the southwest of Nigeria made up the population. Six hundred and Sixty-two (662) biology teachers from the southwest form the sample, while the target population consisted of all biology teachers in senior secondary schools in the southwest of Nigeria. A researcher-designed questionnaire with a reliability coefficient of 0.84 was used to collect the data. The Result indicated that there was little use of creative teaching techniques by biology instructors. This suggests that the advantages of using cutting-edge teaching techniques won't be available to the biology students. The study concluded among others, that encouraging the use of creative teaching techniques was a good idea.

Keywords: biology teachers, utilization, innovative strategies, senior schools