Lagos – A science instructor, Mr Sylva Ifedigbo, on Friday advised science teachers to embrace the use of quality equipment for teaching and practical aspects of science subjects.
Ifedigbo, who is the Director of the Federal Science Equipment Centre (FSEC), Ijanikin, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
He stressed the need for teachers to be effective and conversant with handling of science equipment, especially during practical session, to enable students to comprehend easily.
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He said that the development would remove the teaching of science subjects and mathematics from their abstract forms.
The mandate of this equipment centre, which was started in 1971, was to help in developing the training and teaching of science.
“And among the activities, to brace up the mandate, is training teachers in the use of science equipment.
“And you can’t teach science effectively without practical and science equipment. That is what we are doing.
“Our work here is to help to develop science through making available science equipment.
“That’s, we re-skilled and retrain teachers in the use of science equipment.’’
The director said that the centre also trained teachers on how to use local equipment to teach mathematics and science subjects.
According to him, the training exposes the teachers to the best way to use local material to fabricate equipment to teach practical.
Ifedigbo appealed to the teachers to participate in the annual training of science and mathematics teachers on the uses of equipment.
NAN reports that FSEC, on Jan. 12, trained of no fewer than 500 teachers from federal and state owned schools in the South-West zone. (NAN)
