The Effect of Poor Teacher – Pupil Relationship on Academic Achievement of Biology Students in Enugu South Local Government
CHAPTER ONE
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The main purpose of this study is to find out the extent the effect of poor teacher – pupil relationship on the academic achievement of biology students in Enugu South Local Government. Specially, the study intends to find out.
- The extent to which biology teachers use praises on the pupils in their class.
- The extent to which biology teachers use leisure time to engage the pupil in a friendly chat.
- The extent to which biology teachers punish and react towards pupils in the class whenever their attention is needed by them.
- The extent to which biology teachers allow pupils freedom in the biology class.
- The extent to which biology students communicate with their biology teachers in the classroom.
- The extent to which their relationship with their biology teacher affect their performance in the subject.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This chapter is concerned with a review of some of the write up related to the topic under investigation that is the effect of poor teacher – pupil relationship on academic achievement of biology student. The literature is reviewed under the following headings:
- The concept of a teacher
- Improving academic achievement of the learner
- Factor affecting teacher pupil relationship in learning environment
- Implication of poor teacher pupil relationship in academic achievement
- Summary of review of related literature.
THE CONCEPT OF A TEAHER
Ozochi (2007) believes that the word “Teacher” covers all those persons in schools who are responsible for the education of pupils. He is the central process of quality and equality in education. In the researcher’s point of view, a teacher is described as a professional, who impact desirable skills, knowledge, information and attitude among other into the learner. He takes an important role in the learning process between him and the learners. He is the prime mover in creating optimum condition for learning. According to Ocho (2005) defined a teacher a person who instructs others in virtue and such teacher will receive the blessings of eternal life. Okafor (2003) define a teacher as those that help others to learn, to understand their world, and to see how things are done. Okeke (2004) opined that if we believed in the capacity of educational system to promote rapid and directed social and economic change, we should be concerned with teacher’s in Nigeria schools are because the most important quality of the teachers is the ability to make his listeners virtuous. Some of the qualities of a good teacher according to Chris (2011) include the following
- Understanding of the role of a school in a child’s life: High school is more than the sum of the classes the kids take. It is a time to grow, explore, and try on identities, and finds much more than the time they are in the physical classroom.
- Love of their subject: Great teachers are not only love their subject butt they love to share that joy with subjects.
- A willingness to change: This is being overlooked sometimes; we talk about how schools should be transformative for teachers. If your expect kids to changed by their interaction with you, it got be two – way street.
- A willingness to reflect: You have to be able to ask why things went the way they did both on the good and the bad days. You have to be able to admit when the reasons it went bad were because of what you did, not what the students did. Teaching requires a willingness to cast a critical eye on your practice, yourself and it can be brutal.
- Love of kid: Some teachers come in and talk about teaching and talk about how much they love their subject and know about their subject but they never mention the kids. Some teachers are known who actually know the subject matter but their classroom management style is always full of tears and intimidations. Not who I want teaching kids I care about.
- Understanding that being a “great teacher” is a constant struggle to always improve.
- A willingness to work collaboratively.
- Passion for teaching and enough humility to remember that it is not all about you.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH MOTHODOLOGY
This chapter discussed and concentrated mainly on the method and procedures of gathering, presenting and analyzing information to form a practical and realistic data into the earlier theoretical frame work. It covers designs of study, sample and sampling techniques, validation of the instrument for data collection, method of data analysis, decision rule.
DESIGN OF THE STUDY
This study is a ballot survey research designed to determine the effect of poor teacher-pupil relationship on academic achievement of biology students in Enugu South Local Government Area. A survey research design is a form of research in which data is collected by asking a set of reformulated questions in a predetermined sequence in a structured questionnaire to be a representative of a defined population.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIIS OF DATA
This chapter deals with the analysis of data collected through questionnaire. A total of sixty (60) questionnaires were distributed to the biology teachers and the students in the selected secondary school in Enugu South Local Government Area of Enugu State. The responses from the questionnaires are shown in the table below.
CHAPTER FIVE
DISCUSSION OF FINDING, CONCLUSION, RECOMMENDATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS.
This chapter discussed the finding of the study given clear insight to all the finding gathered in the previous chapters, Educational implication drawn from the findings, Summary of findings, recommendations, Suggestions and conclusion are also presented.
DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS
Evidences from the first research question, shows that biology teachers use praise on the pupils in the class. This result supports the view of Babaloba (2006), who noted that teacher must plan ahead to setup worth while learning situations and also should constantly strive to develop an appropriate climate for learning. The classroom should be a place where horizons are widened.
With respect to the second research question, it is shown that biology teachers use leisure time to engage the pupils in a friendly chat. This result is compatible with the statement of Fafunwa (2004), who pointed out that, for a successful academic performance to occur in the learners, the teacher must always try to create free – time that will encourage cordial relationship between him and his learners and the learners must be given the freedom to participate thereby expressing his/her views based on what he or she has learned or based on what they know. Evidence from the third research question, shows that biology teachers punish and react towards pupils in the class whenever their attention is needed. From the fourth research question, it is shown that biology teachers allow pupils freedom in the classroom. This finding is in line with the view of Okeke (2004); dominative attitude of the teacher tends to bring about resistance on the side of the pupils. He advised that teachers should bear in mind that pupils need to feel secure and they also need an atmosphere in which authority is exercised in democratic way.
EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS
Based on the result of finding in this study, the effect of poor teacher pupil relationship on academic achievement of biology students made students to see biology as a difficult subject to learn and if no teacher could detect or find out the problem and reform it, the objectives of National Policy on Education and the nation in general would automatically fall below average.
Also bad gangs can be created between and against the teacher due to poor relationship because the biology teacher does not have the opportunity to study the pupil very well. Some pupils could create a serious problem for the realization of educational objectives. Poor teacher-pupils relationship will give rise to the hatred of the biology teacher and the neglect of the subject taught by biology teacher.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Having identified some of the weakness and problem of the influence of poor teacher-pupil relationship on academic achievement of biology students in Enugu South Local Government Area, the researcher recommend that
- The government should try to provide the necessary educational facilities and equipment. Also biology teacher’s salaries should be increased and paid as at when due.
- Sounded minded biology teachers should be employed to do the job.
iii. Biology teachers should be far in their assessment of pupil’s academic achievement. This will help in creating confidence in the minds of the pupils and also help to retain their love and co-operation with their biology teacher.
- Unqualified biology teachers should be ask to go for in-service training.
- Any biology teacher that would be employed to teach biology students should posses the minimum qualification of Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE).
SUMMARY
The study evaluated the effect of poor teacher-pupil relationship on academic achievement of biology students in Enugu South Local Government Area.
The researcher formulated six (6) research questions to guide the study. Related literature were reviewed, data was collected through questionnaire from sample of sixty (60) respondents. Data analysis was made using frequency and percentage for the research questions. From the result, it was found out that poor teacher-pupil relationship has a negative effect on the students while positive teacher-pupil relationship has a positive effect on the students in teaching and learning, Discussion of finding, Conclusion, Recommendations and Suggestions was also treated.
CONCLUSION
The biology teachers have important roles on the pupil’s relationship with them. Biology teacher are require to foster positive relationship with their students to create classroom environments more conducive to learning and meet students developmental, emotional and academic needs and those students who have close, positive and supportive relationships with their biology teachers will attain higher levels of achievement than those students with more conflictual relationships. Positive teacher students relationship draw students into the process of learning and promote their desire to learn but poor or negative relationship with biology teacher makes the students to hate the teacher which lead to neglect of the subject taught by teacher and the objectives of National Policy on Education will automatically fall below average.
SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH
After the research work on the effect of poor teacher-pupil relationship on achievement of biology students in Enugu South Local Government, the researcher state the following for further work.
- Problems of unqualified biology teachers on biology students.
- Implications of poor teacher pupil’s relationship in academic achievement
- Effect of lack of teachers motivation
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