I came across a call to rename Unilorin as Sheikh Alimi University, and I felt it was time we had an honest conversation about this trend. Lately, we’ve seen similar moves…University of Abuja becoming Yakubu Gowon University, the University of Maiduguri renamed Muhammadu Buhari University… what exactly is going on?
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Press club in my secondary school (Nostalgia)
From the views generated by my previous article, I discovered many people (I guess teachers) are curious about secondary school press club. Thus, they search this online daily. Consequently, I decided to share a more beneficial post on this.
11 years ago, I joined my secondary school press club. That was a decision that would influence me a lot. We were just like any other high school students, but as a teacher now, I agree we did awesome things.
Basically, our activities were student-centred, and some of those beautiful activities includes:
- Weekly news report:
These were some paragraphs from notable newspapers read in front of the assembly by two students on a chosen day of a week, then it used to be Wednesdays. My school was a boarding school, and mobile phones were contraband. But thanks to the press, the students were as updated as any other citizen. We would make orders for newspaper every week, extract basic and relevant items to draft our “national news”. Then, the “local news” were reports of news worthy activities and policies in school. We would start with “Headlines for this week are….”.
- Press board (wall-gazette)
This was a glass covered board on which we attached news materials and interesting short articles. Continue reading “Press club in my secondary school (Nostalgia)”
Use the best… Do the best! (Copa-ticha episode 7)
Discussion method
The silence in every child cries out: “let me participate and be involved in my own learning and let me join in with other leaners to learn”. A way to deal with this plight is to employ the discussion method of teaching. In this method, the teacher put forward the subject matter to which students present their opinions and views. The teacher will therefore serve as the leader or the moderator of the talk, since he/she may or may not be part of the discussion.
Unlike the didactic method, teacher is not the sole performer instead it is a collaborative exchange of ideas. Continue reading “Use the best… Do the best! (Copa-ticha episode 7)”
State the Purpose (Copa-ticha episode 5)
The pilot announced: “at the end of this flight we should be landing at the Muritala Muhammad Intl Airport”. This is a relatively specific statement resulting from certain calculations. A similitude of this is the Behavioral objective. The Behavioural object refers to what the teacher expect the students to have acquire after a particular lesson and for every lesson, there should be objectives.
Objectives are very vital to lessons. They are the bases of selection of method and instructional material to be use in teaching. They make the teacher present carefully what is to be accomplished, so as to avoid talking out of turn, making repetitions and irrelevant points. In short, they make the teaching directed, focus and organised. Continue reading “State the Purpose (Copa-ticha episode 5)”
Don’t go in alone… (Copa-ticha episode 4)
A teacher began: “today, we will be discussing computer hardware…he continued…blah blah blah then ended with the habitual question ‘do you understand?’ the students accompanied it with a loud roar of ‘yeees’. A few weeks later, the students sat for a test on the same topic but 75% of them failed. That’s not weird, of course the students said they understood because a further explanation will make the lesson more complex and confusing. This is a problem that can be avoided with the use of an instructional material.
What is an instructional material?
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Ifeoluwa Siddiq Oyelami 