Classroom Management In Nigerian Colleges Of Education: Challenges And Recommended Solutions
Bashar, Sa’adu Isa, PhD, Bello Ibrahim, Sambo Zayyanu, Ph.D
Volume 4, Issue 2, December 2024
This paper posits that the goals of the Nigerian Colleges of Education could never be realised as is maximumly required without effective classroom management. This is because, effective classroom management has the potentials of enhancing students’ engagement, promoting effective learning, building positive teacher-students’ relationships, and also increases students’ achievement. It is the thrust of this paper therefore, to explore and delineate the crises or challenges that surround effective classroom management in the Nigerian Colleges of Education. Based on the review, it was found that the challenges affecting effective classroom management in the Nigerian Colleges of Education include among others, poor infrastructure, poor teacher quality, poor students’ motivation, poor funding and overcrowded classrooms. These resulted in to decrease in students’ engagements, decrease in students’ motivation, decrease in students’ learning, and low academic performance of the prospective teachers INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ARTS MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES E-ISSN: 2814-0389, ISSN: 2814-0370 VOL. 4, ISSUE 2, 2024 AVAILABLE ONLINE: www.ijamps.com 106 (students). To address these challenges for effective classroom management in the Nigerian Colleges of Education, it is recommended that the government should be providing regular training and professional development opportunities to lecturers so as to help them improve their pedagogical skills, lecturers should employ the use of technology in teaching larger classrooms, lecturers should be encouraging collaborative learning among students, lecturers should be adopting active learning strategies in the classrooms such as hands-on experiments, role-playing, and case studies, lecturers should adopt differentiated teaching methods that cater for individual students' strengths and preferences, and that College Authorities should reduce greediness and emphasise on smaller class sizes.