Communication Skills required by Technical Teachers for Effective Implementation of Basic Technology Curriculum in Edo State, Nigeria

This study was conducted to identify communication skills required by technical teachers for effective implementation of Basic Technology curriculum in junior secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria using descriptive survey research design. Two research questions were answered by the study while two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at .05 level of significance. The population for the study consisted of 302 technical teachers from the universities, technical colleges and public secondary schools in Edo State of Nigeria. Since the population was manageable, there was no sampling. The instrument used for data collection was a 19 items questionnaire which was validated by five experts. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach’s Alpha and a reliability coefficient of .85 was obtained. The research questions were answered using mean while ANOVA was used for testing the hypotheses. Based on the data collected and analyzed, the study found that all the items were identified as communication skills required by technical teachers for effective implementation of basic technology curriculum. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended among others that the identified communication skills where technical teachers required improvement be packaged for re-training through conferences, seminars, symposium and colloquium to equip the teachers.