Departments

Pre-Service Programmes

Department of Pre-service Programmes is in charge of professional teacher preparation at the pre-NCE, NCE and Undergraduate levels. It is doing so by running all the Niger State Teacher Preparation Centres (Mararraban Dandaudu, Agaie and Nasarawa Kainji) and collaborating with College of Education, Minna and Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai. The key functions of the department are:

1. To engage in evidence based continuous review of the status and challenges of pre-service teacher development in Niger State with a view to identify weaknesses, proficiency gaps, and policy omissions so as to proffer and implement viable solutions to remediate them;
2. To invest in the development and sustainable review of Pre-NCE practical education curriculum for pre-service teacher professional development with a view to equip prospective teachers with 21st century pedagogical knowledge, skills and expert orientation;
3. To propose the establishment, run and productively manage pre-NCE Teacher Preparation Centres across the State with a view to produce intellectually, pedagogically and professionally equipped prospective teachers that will feed our NCE/Degree level Teacher Production Institutions with quality intakes thereby improving the overall professionalism (quality) and productivity of the State’s teacher graduates;
4. To produce quality pre-NCE prospective professional teachers with the knowledge, competencies and disposition to effectively serve as Teaching Facilitators with focus on English and Basic Mathematics in our Primary Schools especially in the Rural Areas where the dearth of teachers is threatening the survival of Basic Education in the State;
5. To liaise and partner with Teacher Regulatory bodies give the stamp of recognition to the products of its Teacher Preparation Centres as employable as Teaching Facilitators/Assistants or Tutors in Basic Education Schools with emphasis on the teaching English and Basic Mathematics;
6. To liaise and partner with Education Sector Agencies, Non-Governmental Organizations, Community Based Organizations and other Stakeholders to advocate for effective teacher preparation, official recognition for the graduates of its TPCs and the marketing of teaching as the pride and ‘mother of all professions’; and
7. To link up and collaborate with Teacher relevant International Organizations and other global players in advancing the cause of professional teacher preparation initiatives especially for the benefits of countries in the Southern Hemisphere contending with the challenge of the supply and quality of Basic Education teachers.