ENTERPRENEURIAL SKILLS NEEDED BY BUILDING TECHNOLOGY TEACHERS FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN TECHNICAL COLLEGES OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study was designed to determine the entrepreneurial skills needed by building technology teachers for effective teaching at technical colleges and to determine the strategies for effective teaching and learning of entrepreneurial skills. Two research questions guided the study. A survey design was adopted for the study. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from the 68 respondents in all state and federal technical colleges in Niger state. The data collected was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research question. Findings on the study show that all the 21 suggested entrepreneurial skills were accepted by both the teacher and administrator. The strategies suggested for enhancing effective teaching were accepted by both teachers and administrators. Recommendation were made among which were the review of the technical education curriculum to include entrepreneurial skills needed by the teachers of technical colleges, teachers be given opportunity for in service training in the field area of entrepreneurial skills acquisition in order to update their knowledge and thus enable them perform well in their teaching.