Policy Campaign: Making NYSC Orientation Meaningful
Without doubt Nigerian National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC ) deployments have been useful in filling manpower gaps across the country, especially disparities in the availability and quality of subject teachers. For instance, during my National Youth Service year, I was deployed to teach Mathematics at a government junior secondary school in Goepaal , Shendam Local Government Area of Plateau State. There I taught the entire arm of junior secondary school One (JSS 1) students. Some other Youth Corps members within the Local Government Area were the pioneer teachers of some science subjects in the schools to which they were deployed. By and large, when given primary teaching assignments,Youth Corps members are assigned to teach at educational institutions, based on the assumption that they know enough (about classroom management, lesson plan preparation, student learning styles, teaching effectiveness etc) to function effectively at those assignments. As they say, assumption i