A University don, Professor Veronica Ebun Yonlonfoun, a Professor of Educational Management of Tai Solarin University of Education, has recommended that teachers are in the best position to lead Nigeria out of crisis.
Professor Veronica Ebun Yonlonfoun in her inaugural lecture at the university titled Educational Management: A Rescue To a Nation In Crisis, on Thursday 5th December, 2024 recommended that the teacher is in the best position to lead a person out of crisis, and by implication teachers are in the best position to take Nigeria out of crisis.
The lecture which was the second from the Human Resource Management Unit of the Department of Educational Management of the university centred on Educational Management: A Rescue To a Nation In Crisis, and posited that the teachers were in the best position to see Nigeria out of crisis because “the teacher is positioned in that segment of lives of the young where he has an easy access to their minds and can easily influence, reorient, refocus or reshape the mind.”
He explained further that the teacher in his position “can use correct knowledge to settle the restlessness in the hearts and actually retrain the mind in right thinking and right attitudes,” noting that “Because the heart of the young is still very fertile and receptive, he can easily install right and wholesome concepts in their impressionable minds.”
At the inaugural lecture that attracted dignitaries within and outside the university including the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwole Banjo, and was attended by many members of the academic community, family, friends, well-wishers, and the general public, Professor Yonfonloun made a number of suggestions which could help teachers in educational institutions to come to the rescue of the nation in crisis.
These according to her, are the following recommendations and suggestions made by the erudite scholar;
- Regular workshops, seminars and conferences should be organised for teachers and educational administrators in and outside their schools so as to update their knowledge and skill.
- School administrators and other stakeholders in education should be of assistance in the supervision of instructions and teachers.
- Federal and State Governments should increase budgetary allocation for the training and development of teachers at all levels in order to achieve the goals of the National Policy on Education.
- Government should put in place counseling clinics where teachers can be counseled whenever they experience crisis within. This will help teachers to perform their roles optimally.
- Scholarships should be given to students who choose to take teaching as a profession.
- A major educational reform that entails strategic evaluation is advocated in the teaching and learning process.
- The provision of essential facilities for the smooth running of the education process should be put in place by the stakeholders in the education industry.
- Teachers at all levels should be specially motivated and recognised by the government, institutions, and people that matter in the society.
- Teachers should celebrate themselves if no one is ready to do it for them.
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