Problems of Teaching Health Education in Secondary Schools
CHAPTER ONE
Purpose of the Study
- Determine the available resources for teaching and learning health education subject in secondary schools in Ukum local government area of Benue State.
- Ascertain the extent to which Secondary School students learning health education subject are influenced by the use of instructional materials.
- Evaluate the state of resources available for the teaching of health education in Ukum local government area of Benue State.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Model for Evaluating Health education
The evaluation of an educational programme is multivariate in nature. To this end, it is not easy to specify a suitable model. A number of evaluation models exist for use in evaluating educational programmes. Some of them are decision-objective model and course improvement model. Others are assessment of merit model, countenance model, discrepancy model, decision-management–oriented model, CIPP (Context, Input, Process and Product) Model, Kentucky vocational education evaluation model and model for evaluating vocational teacher education programme in Nigeria. A central feature, which characterized these decision-making models of evaluation, is their applicability to decision making concerning aspects of evolving programmes. (William, 2012).
In prescribing the methodology for the evaluation of health education programmes, care should be taken to avoid common errors that are often associated with evaluation studies. A classic example is provided by the evaluation carried out on the experimental world literacy programme of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The programme carried out in eleven countries around the world, was recently reviewed in one of UNESCO’s most candid reports. The evaluation procedure received considerable criticism, for unnecessary complexity and an accompanying sophisticated quantification was said to blind the evaluators occasionally to simple truths in plain comparable also produced many problems. The need for practically and related simplicity has therefore been emphasized by evaluators working in the different fields of education. Overall, the past history of evaluation in Health education has revealed little or no action or imagination. Lowe (2005) after a worldwide study concluded that “the overwhelming majority is institutions make no convincing attempt to assess the effectiveness of their programmes, even in terms of their objectives still less is there any attempt to calculate social and economic benefits.”
One solution to the problem of evaluating broad-aimed programmes like health education been suggested by Farmer (2005) and is based on mixed of or quickly review whole programme, assign priorities and then select certain areas for careful examination. Farmer and others suggest that the following components of the programme should be scanned:
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
Research Design
The research design adopted for this study is descriptive survey; the office of human research protection (OHRP) defined a descriptive survey as any study that is not truly experimental. The research study is set out to evaluate the problems of teaching health education in secondary school in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State.
Population of the Study
The population for this study were all the health education subject teachers in the secondary schools in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. There are twenty-six (26) secondary schools in Ukum Local Government Area with the total population of seventy-eight (78) teachers.
CHAPTER FOUR
PRESENTATION OF DATA ANALYSIS
Research Question One: What resources are available for teaching and learning of health education subject in secondary schools?
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1 Conclusion
The result of the study seems to imply that teacher experience and qualification influence the level of assessment and utilization of resources material in teaching and learning of Health education Subjects in secondary schools in Ukum L.G.A, Benue State, based on the findings of the study. The study also revealed that most of the resources for teaching and learning health education subject are not available in secondary schools in Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. This means that most of the resources identified for teaching of business subjects are not made available in the schools
5.2 Recommendations
Resources materials are important materials needed for the realization of instructional objectives and education goals, thus the level of use of these resources in teaching and learning should be improved upon in view of the conclusion drawn. However, it was recommended that;
- Curriculum planners and implementation and educational policy makers should sensitize the school and teachers on the need to put more emphasis on utilization and improvision of resources materials in teaching and learning of Health education subjects.
- The government as a matter of policy should recruit more qualified graduate teachers to teach at junior secondary school level most especially Health education.
- Adequate instructional materials should be provided for effective teaching and learning process.
- Criteria for instructional materials selection should be based on its suitability to function for the purpose it is designed for.
- Finally since the study encourage the use of resources materials for more practical teaching and learning process the graduate of Health education like. Other areas will be people who are well prepared for their job performance and this will ease the employers’ problem of on job training of workers thus enhancing production.
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