Strategizing Techniques for Coping with the Challenges of Blended Teaching and Learning in Teacher Preparation Institutions in a Post-COVID-19 Nigeria

Abstract

delivery modes. Only very few of them were using virtual teaching and learning modes before the coming of COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the suggestion that teachers should begin to consider the combination of virtual/online teaching with the traditional face-to-face classroom teaching in the name of blended teaching. On a cautionary note, however, we are not sure of the practising teachers’ level of competence in the use of this new strategy. This is because the use of a blended teaching approach would normally require that some processes for professional development of teachers in terms of equipping them with the needed skills to meet this new market demand was never a major component of their training module. Abstract: This paper examines the concept of blended teaching and learning as an intervention for coping with the challenges created by COVID-19 pandemic and recommended the strategy for effective teacher preparation in Nigeria. Specifically, it attempted to do learning as a comparatively analysis of the efficacy of blended teaching and face to face teaching in relation to the current teacher preparation strategies in the Nigerian Colleges of Education. Strategies for successful use of blended teaching and learning by the different stakeholders involved in teacher preparation institutions under the new normal were highlighted and discussed.