Teaching and Learning Innovations: Guest Teacher Innovation and Cooperative Learning for Enhanced Service Delivery in Public Secondary Schools in Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

Aim of the Study: This study investigated the teaching and learning innovations: guest teacher learning and cooperative learning for enhanced service delivery in public secondary schools in Rivers State, Nigeria. Two objectives, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study.

Methodology: The descriptive design was adopted. The population of this study consisted of the 78,609 teachers and students in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. The sample of this study was 792 teachers and students in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State, comprising 360 classroom teachers and 432 students. The multistage sampling technique was used to draw the sample. The instrument used to generate data was a self-structured questionnaire titled: Teaching and Learning Innovations for enhanced Service Delivery in Secondary Schools Questionnaire (TLISDSSQ). Cronbach Alpha was used to establish the reliability co-efficient of the instrument and a reliability index of 0.80 was obtained. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation, while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 significant level using the t-test.

Findings: The study revealed that guest teacher learning and cooperative learning is the teaching and learning innovations that are utilised for enhanced service delivery in public secondary schools in Rivers State. The study also showed that people with expert knowledge in various fields of endeavours visit schools to provide real life industrial teaching experience to students.

Conclusion: The study recommended that government should equip public schools with facilities and have qualified instructors to ensure seamless implementation of teaching and learning innovations to improve service delivery, that School principals and administrators should make use of teachers to instruct students in order to deepen their understanding and improve their teaching skills in public secondary schools in the state.