Innovative Tools for Teaching science and Technology Education: Beacons for Self-reliance

Abstract

Innovation is a product of creative and innovative skills learnt from the classroom. Innovation paves way to entrepreneurship that also leads to self-reliance. This paper focused on innovative teaching tools that can be used for teachers in schools to enhance creativity and innovations among learners capable of making themselves self-reliant. It examines the weaknesses of traditional method of teaching Science and technology that could be bridge by innovative tools if properly utilized. It went further to suggest some ways teachers could follow in other to teach innovation in schools. It concluded that if innovative tools and the ways of teaching innovations are implemented by teachers in schools, students will become creative and innovative and eventually become entrepreneurs that could lead the nation to be self-reliant.