Teachers Effectiveness in Teaching Economics: Implication for Secondary Education

Teachers, as the pillars of an education system are expected to be resourceful as a strategy for effecting teaching in Nigerian schools and colleges. This is because, meaningful and skillful learning outcome is only achieved when the educational goals and objectives are attained. To carry out this study therefore, structured questionnaire made up of 10 items were constructed and administered to 150 students and 10 teachers in 50 secondary schools in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State. Likert weighted mean average of 4 point rating scale was employed for the analysis of the data. The result shows that teacher’s strategies and methods of teaching economics in the secondary schools in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State are inadequate due to low educational qualification, lack of motivation in terms of remuneration and fringe benefit, lack of teacher’s recognition and cognitive experience. Base on the findings, recommandations such as employment of teachers especially  in economics should be based on assessment through written test and trial teaching to guide against the influx of quacks into teaching profession, and government agencies to ensure that right method of teaching is employed should supervise teachers regularly and make sure that right method /strategies are adopted in teaching/Learning process. I don’t care attitude should be removed from various bodies concerned with educational development and replaced with education consciousness were made.