• In-service education is not a new term in our educational system. The term has been used in many ways to refer to almost the same things in education. In this lecture we shall attempt to discuss what the term in-service education entails, its purposes and reasons why teachers choose to be involved in some forms of in-service education programmes commonly organized and known to teachers will be examined.
• A lot of confusion exists in the minds of many educators and the teaching profession in general, when the term in-service education is defined. There are two stages of teacher education are in practice at the present time.
i. First, is what we often refer to as pre- service education and takes place in residence in a college or University before a teacher is appointed to his first post or employed and registered by the Teachers Service Commission.
ii. Second is the in-service education and may be taken any time while the teacher is already trained and qualified who are also professionally employed. It may also be arranged for untrained teachers who have been recruited by T.S.C and registered to teach in public schools.
• The present growth of in-service education practice in the teaching profession is historical. First, is the fact that knowledge continues to expand in the present world at a much greater rate than before. Days when a teacher could be contented with a bank of knowledge which he would find adequate to sustain him throughout his teaching career have ended. Whatever knowledge a teacher acquires during his initial training may not still be satisfactory in ten or fifteen years later. New knowledge keeps coming up through research and technology. A teacher faces great challenges now than what was experienced before. It must be admitted in this lecture that in-service education is an essential element and condition for all members of the public employed to teach in schools. This condition should apply to both the pre-service or trained and the untrained teachers.
Wilfykil answered the question on March 2, 2019 at 07:30