Teaching Skills Required by Pre-Service Teachers for Enhancing Teaching and Learning of Basic Science and Technology in Bosso Local Government, Niger State

The study was carried out to determine teaching skills required by pre-service teachers to enhance teaching and learning of basic technology in Bosso local government Minna, Niger state. Two research questions guided the study while two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted survey research design. The population for the study was 40 pre-service teachers of basic science and technology. There was no sampling because of the manageable size of the population. The instrument used for data collection was structured questionnaire. Three experts validated the instrument. Mean and standard deviation were employed to analyze data for answering research questions while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study revealed that Selection instructional content of a lesson, Select available human and material resources need for planning a lesson, Construct a lesson plan, Select methods and techniques for teaching a lesson, are the Instructional planning skills required by technology education student to enhance teaching and learning of Basic Science and Technology subject. Provide safety poster in the laboratory to encourage correct safety habit in sequence and logical order, Arrange benches and machines properly to facilitate learning are the Teaching methodological skills required by pre-service teachers for enhancing the implementations of Basic Science and Technology subject. Evaluating students affective domain, Assessing students psychomotor performance, Construct reliable test to evaluate students progress, Assessing the effectiveness of the teaching strategy, Making record about students academic ability, Provide records about students moral character and personality are the Instructional evaluation skills required by pre-service teachers for enhancing the implementations of Basic Science and Technology subject. It was recommended that pre-service teachers of basic science and technology should be retrained based on areas of needs identified in the study and relevant facilities for effective implementation of the Basic Science and Technology should be provided by government and other enabling bodies among others.