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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY ACADEMICS (IJCA)
ISSN 2536-7110 © 2024 VOL. 9(1), Pp. 1 - 8, © OCTOBER 2024

Developing Online Resources for Primary School Teachers: A Necessary Support System During COVID-19 Era in Nigeria

Eniola Olutoyosi Akande Ph.D.
Department of Primary Education,
Faculty of Education,
Adeyemi Federal University of Education, Ondo
eniolaolutoyosi@yahoo.com

www.guildaa.org

ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic brought with it social, economic and educational changes which had a grave effect on the type and quality of teaching and learning process primary school pupils were exposed to during the lockdown. The basic form of delivery at this period was online teaching. Some pupils could benefit from these alternative modes of teaching put in place while others could not. Various barriers to benefiting range from lack of technological know-how and dearth of on-line teaching and learning resources, parental scaffolding and involvement, to lack of financial resources to access Android phones, data and electricity amongst others. The need for a decisive intervention and creation of certain support system becomes imperative. A necessary support system needed especially during COVID-19 era in Nigeria is the development of on-line resources. Having on-line resources would help primary school teachers in their day-to-day teaching and learning activities. Having on-line class remains a novel in Nigeria at the primary school level. It also poses a staggering problem to teachers who are not computer literate and who may not be able to develop the resources by themselves. This is indeed a major challenge. There is the need for higher levels of technological competency and proficiency on top of teachers’ regular academic workload to achieve the needed learning outcomes. This paper therefore calls for the attention of experts in the field of early childhood Education to see the need to develop ready-made sources and downloadable hand-on for effective online teaching at this period. It demands a cooperative effort with computer software experts to help in creating software and other resources to bridge the gap of lack of teaching and learning resources to make for effective learning experiences in the classroom. There must be a major collaborative effort if there would be appreciable form of solution to these developing problem at this level of education. This paper therefore explorers COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19 pandemic and primary education, teachers and online teaching, hindrances to online teaching and the support system needed.
Key words: Online Resources, Primary School Teachers, Support System COVID-19 Era


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