ENHANCING THE SKILL OF PREPARING DIAGRAMS OF BIOLOGY AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Importance of Science Subject Science allows students to explore their world and discover new things. It is also an active subject, containing activities such as hands-on labs and experiments. Skills Needed Skills needed to learn to draw diagram are listening skills, observing skills, reading skills, drawing skills and writing skills. Place of drawing diagrams in present competitive world and why drawing skill is important for this. Problem faced by English medium students in drawing diagram the research has shown that school science teachers do not have adequate training to deliver quality education in drawing diagrams to their pupils. From this finding it might be concluded that this could be one of the reasons why such resources might not be used in school. Further the research has shown that the school under research lacked adequate funding to purchase teaching/learning resources such as charts, specimens and text books for use by teachers during lessons. It was also seen that in terms of availability of teaching/learning resources, high schools were grossly under resourced in terms of basic facilities such as text books and equipment. This scenario has greatly affected teaching and learning for both teachers and students respectively. The research also not enough for students and teachers. The research also found out that most teachers could not improvise teaching/learning resources for their teaching and did not even borrow some teaching/learning resources from other schools. This can be concluded that high school teachers lacked time and proper equipment which they could not afford from their school budget. As regards the most popular teaching/learning resources the research revealed that there were the usual text books and few wall charts. This in itself shows the seriousness of lack of information for the students and teachers from other sources. This research has also shown that drawing aids teaching/learning resources such as TV, CDs and computers were not there in this school and therefore could not be used by both teachers and students for teaching and learning respectively. This research has also shown that the use of ICT and internet was not yet popular in schools. The findings of the research has shown that there are very few teachers who are trained in the use of ICT, therefore, teachers in high schools are not able to discuss the types of software packages to be used in teaching in high schools.