Experts chart new course for classroom learning

EXPERTS in the field of education have agreed on the need to chart a new course for classroom learning in modern times in order to achieve the implementation of innovative classroom practices for sustainable development in education.

This was the outcome of a conference on implementation of innovative classroom practices for sustainable development in education held in Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo recently.

This position was contained in a communiqué issued at the end of the 8th Annual Conference of the School of Education signed by the Chairman and the Secretary of the Conference Committee, Dr Olugbenga Ajere and Dr James Alabi Abidoye.

According to the organisers of the conference, the aim was “to bring to public domain unprecedented change mantra in classroom practices globally, to accommodate enormity of diverse learners’ needs and potentials for the generation of rational recipe for classroom creativity in a multicultural global human society.

They stated that the conference realised that teaching and learning platform had gone beyond knowledge and skill transmission by the teacher within the confines of classroom alone, where absolute knowledge and skills are disseminated for learners’ acquisition.

The conference posited that professionals and beneficiaries of education enterprise should blend with each other for the achievement of the ultimate goals in this era of massive generation of new ideas and orientation in all professional fields.

This was hinged on the transitory nature of education in the modern world reflecting diverse constant alterations in its structure and practices.

The professionals argued that “the position of education in the ever changing world is highly strategic and central in societal components producing manpower needs to drive other components in this time of social civilisation and transformation.”

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The educationists maintained that it has become imperative for stakeholders in the education industry to aggressively key into the innovative classroom practices for the “delivery of acceptable and useful tutelage and pedagogy for the production and supply of tested, qualified, employable and relevant manpower to the global market.”

The scholars affirmed that classroom practices in the contemporary learning enterprise desire creative ideas, insightful experiences, modern initiatives and application of technological gadgets and devices in teaching-learning processes.

They further stated that “the fast advancing world require deployment of technology in classroom practices to be in vogue with innovative practices all over the world.”

They concluded that the deployment of technology would serve as “transformative strategies to transform for teaching and learning processes beyond the four walls of the classroom in accordance innovative classroom practices for sustainable development in the Nigerian educational system.”

The conclusion was based on the fact that learners are to search for knowledge and skills themselves independently through enquiry and fieldwork using technology and other learning materials and devices.