Teachers’ Experience and Teachers’ Competency Needs in the multidisciplinary approach to implementation of environmental education curriculum in Cross River State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study was undertaken to determine teachers experience and their competence needs of teachers in the multidisciplinary approach to implementation of environmental education curriculum in Cross River State, Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The sample consisted of 737 teachers proportionally sampled from 67 public secondary schools in the three education zones of Cross River State. The teacher competence needs questionnaire in the implementation of environmental education curriculum containing competency needs items was used for data collection. The data were analyzed using means, standard deviation and t-test. Teachers’ experience (F=5.292; p<.05) significantly influenced their competence needs. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others under the multidisciplinary approach experience teachers should be well trained and retrain to be able implement EE curriculum.