EFFECTIVE USE OF TEACHING METHODOLOGIES IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MATHEMATICS IN NIGERIANS' CLASSROOMS

The performance of Nigerian students in Science, Technology, and Mathematics (STM) is disheartening and appalling due to ineffective teaching methodology. This paper thus focuses on the effective use of Teaching Methodologies in Science, Technology, and Mathematics to enhance students’’ learning outcomes. It x-rays the various teaching methodologies used by Instructors in Science, Technology, and Mathematics classrooms that could be of significant impact on students’ academic performances. Its highpoints the components of effective teaching methodology as one that takes cognizant of learner’s abilities, hands-on-mind-on, heuristic active teaching, it concludes that teaching STM in Nigeria classrooms can be enhanced more if the teacher adopts active learning, critical thinking, and creativity, and innovations as elements of good teaching and this can be achieved via effective use of teaching methodologies in Science, Technology, and Mathematics. It thus recommends that Government and Non-Governmental Organizations should collaborate with teachers towards making materials available for effective and pragmatic STM teach-in and learning.