If instructional designers are able to create highly effective instructional tools Then a small portion of the time teachers spend can be spent on the social, emotional and moral development of children. It is not difficult to say that significant technological and procedural innovation can be observed in nearly every field and profession that involve human endeavour.
The use of machines and division of labor specialization, and automation have always resulted in more efficient methods of working and reduced costs for services, and more efficient outcomes. The days when one man was the sole person to do every task in his own small business and the inefficiency that it brought, is gone. Outsourcing has become the top level of specialization.
In this case, a series of jobs within a specific field are performed by people who reside in various countries. That is why that model of division of labour and the specialization of tasks suggested by Adam Smith more than two hundred years ago appears like a medieval catch-phrase. Nowadays doctors in Bangalore is able to instantly take advantage of ICT scans conducted by a radiotherapist located in distant New York. The vast majority of the details that is used in transportation by air, maritime and weather forecast, as well as health control, or even security for the nation is the result of a swarm of ideas, people and resources.
Teaching in Nigeria is an obvious distinction. In Nigeria teachers are multiple roles rolled into one: examiner, instructor administrator, disciplinarian and many more. This task is made more difficult by the unhealthful conditions teaching. In reality, the situation for the Nigerian teacher is compared to the notion of being asked to construct bricks that aren’t straw. Teachers are required to perform many different tasks in a short period of period of time, and with virtually no resources. If this wasn’t sufficient teachers are asked to make up for the insufficient teaching resources through an improvisational approach. Therefore, we are left to consider how much improvisation could be achieved by teachers already strained by a lack of funds and squeezed by insufficient resources.
A third reason Nigerian teachers aren’t able to meet the challenges above is that it can be summarized into three factors one is that a significant portion instructors within Nigeria (that is, when the semi-permanent, permanent and permanent, and temporary teachers are considered together) comprise those who are part who are part of the National Youth Service Corps, non-graduate teachers as well as graduate teachers without teachers’ training. Another reason is that teacher training tends to leave little room for educational technology in the overall teacher education curriculum. The emphasis should be placed on the predominantly theoretical aspects of the programme, as well as the fact that the practical aspect in the education technology lab is not a reality for teachers in the majority of schools. A third cause has been mentioned when the issue of assigning multiple responsibilities to teachers was raised.
Anyone with a sufficient understanding of the Nigerian classroom will not dispute the reality that the time allocated in the teaching schedule is inadequate to the numerous tasks of writing lesson plans and taking notes for classes as well as preparing items for tests as well as conducting and grading periodic tests, directing the classroom, teaching instruction, motivating students out of the classroom, and executing various administrative and extracurricular tasks. However, teachers are still required to plan their time to create the instructional materials used within the class.
One method of tackling the issue is to shift the burden of creating instructional materials and developing teaching methods that teachers can’t use. It’s not right to think that this will render teachers passive participants in the learning and teaching experience. It is also more appropriate to assert that if the job of instructional material design is handled by a different organization teachers will have sufficient time to fulfill the standard task of delivering lessons in addition to ensuring the development of all learners.
