Production of teachers for Maths, Science and technology through the conventional mode is riddled with complexities which are difficult to overcome due to policies surrounding education systems, selection criteria and allocation of trainees to various jobs. Candidates opting for training in teaching these subjects have missed places in prestigious professions, such as medicine, engineering, architecture, graphic design and computer science. They conceptualise teaching as a low esteem profession, for low achievers in Science. Secondly, schools are ill equipped to teach these subjects. Many of them lack laboratories, and workshops required for science, home economics, and agriculture. Often, policy statements and curruculum requirements do not reflect classroom realities. Lack of appropriate learning materials,poor conditions and terms of service, inefficient, and ineffective teacher support services, limited incentives, over detailed curricular and examination requirements, and gender biases due to underdeveloped science culture leave the teacher highly demotivated. Teaching these subjects via distance mode presents serious challenges. Parity of standards must be maintained. Theoretical knowledge can be packaged via different media but, practical contact is necessary to develop scientific skills of classification, deduction, hypothesis, experimentation, interpretation, formulation and synthesis skills through sharing quality teaching materials, home experiment kits, intext activities, marked assignments, and face to face contact. This will enhance scientific background among teachers, elevate teaching to a prestigious profession, attract top applicants for training and as a result, counter the prevailing subtle attitudes among secondary school graduates that selecting a teaching career in science plunges you to a dead end. There is need for political. will and policy statements which define terms and conditions of service and recognises the status of these teachers and regulations which define under whch conditions these subjects are to be taught. |