Volume 30, Issue 2, May 2017, Pages 255–258
PASTOR PAUL NWAKPA1
1 Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria
Original language: English
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Curriculum implementation is the act of translating the curriculum document into action in the classroom by the teacher and so concluding any issue on curriculum implementation without mentioning the teacher will be like one going for cry and leaving his/her eyes behind, like an Igbo adage will say. This is to say that curriculum implementation is the arduous work of the teacher. The teacher's duty as a curriculum implementer cannot be over emphasized and so the paper on curriculum implementation and the teacher: challenges and way forward. The paper examines the concept of curriculum, the concept of curriculum implementation, curriculum implementation and the effective teacher, challenges of the teacher as a curriculum implementer which include: Non-involvement of teachers in curriculum planning and development processes, conducive school environment among others were highlighted and discussed. Based on the findings, possible way forward/ remedies were made which among others include: those teachers should be involved in curriculum planning; the school environment should be pupils/student-friendly.
Author Keywords: curriculum implementation, school administrators, teachers, Nigeria.
PASTOR PAUL NWAKPA1
1 Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria
Original language: English
Copyright © 2017 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Curriculum implementation is the act of translating the curriculum document into action in the classroom by the teacher and so concluding any issue on curriculum implementation without mentioning the teacher will be like one going for cry and leaving his/her eyes behind, like an Igbo adage will say. This is to say that curriculum implementation is the arduous work of the teacher. The teacher's duty as a curriculum implementer cannot be over emphasized and so the paper on curriculum implementation and the teacher: challenges and way forward. The paper examines the concept of curriculum, the concept of curriculum implementation, curriculum implementation and the effective teacher, challenges of the teacher as a curriculum implementer which include: Non-involvement of teachers in curriculum planning and development processes, conducive school environment among others were highlighted and discussed. Based on the findings, possible way forward/ remedies were made which among others include: those teachers should be involved in curriculum planning; the school environment should be pupils/student-friendly.
Author Keywords: curriculum implementation, school administrators, teachers, Nigeria.
How to Cite this Article
PASTOR PAUL NWAKPA, “CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION AND THE SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS/TEACHERS, CHALLENGES AND REMEDIES IN NIGERIA,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 255–258, May 2017.
