COLLABORATION TEACHING TECHNIQUE FOR BUSINESS EDUCATION IN POST COVID – 19 ERA: BENEFITS AND CHALLENGES

Abstract

 

The study is an opinion paper that examined collaborative teaching technique as it affects instruction delivery in business education programme at the college level. It focused majorly on the benefits accrued to and likely challenges that may confront and affect collaborative teaching method effectiveness in business education courses teaching. Some benefits of the teaching technique as identified by the study include; opportunity to identify the rate of assimilation of business education students, and improved capability of business education students for problems identification and evaluation. The identified problems as they are related to business education from the study include; that naturally, teaching skills will definitely differ from one business education lecturer to another. In view of this, a highly skillful and competent teacher with high level of subject matter mastery will surely prove his worth during instruction delivery. As such, the students might prefer his lesson to that of his counterpart who lacks teaching skill and without required level of subject matter mastery. This unhealthy situation will in no doubt result in psychological division of the class by the students, and cause inferiority complex, dejection, frustration, and academic imbalance on the part of the incompetent lecturer. The study recommended that business education courses should be allocated to lecturers based on their options and specialty so as to enhance a high level of subject matter mastery on the part of the paired teachers, it also recommended that paired business education lecturers for collaborative teaching should agree at the speed that the shared course outline should be going so that students’ level of assimilation will not be negatively affected.