Quality Teaching for Quality Learning in South Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria

The study investigated quality teaching for quality learning in the south-South Geo-political zone of Nigeria correlational research design was adopted in this study. They usually show the direction of the relationship weather positive or negative relationship. The essence to determine how they relate. The population of the study was made up of all teaching staff of secondary schools. Out of this numbers only three hundred and forty eighty (348) were gotten through stratified random sampling. The instrument for data collection was a self-made questionnaire, titled “Teachers quality teaching and quality learning of students inventory” (T QT QLSI), the instrument had four sections were administered to the respondents. The instrument was validated using face and content as validities as yard stick. The reliability of the instrument was ascertained by the use of test-retest reliability. The instrument was administered to two group of persons with a fortnight interval after which the outcome was subjected to person product moment correlation statistics Moment and it produced a reliability coefficient of 0.8 and for quality learning of secondary school students it gave 0.76. The data collected was analyzed by the use of Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient which was used to answer and test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study shows that a high positive relationship exists between quality of instruction of the teachers and quality learning of the secondary school students. Based on these findings the following recommendations were also made. Teachers should be provided with more incentive and motivate them with teaching aid/audio as to drive home the subject content.