Teacher Professional Qualification and Experience: A Requisite for Effective Classroom Teaching in Banadir Region, Somalia

Abstract

This paper discussed teachers’ professional qualifications and experience as a requisite for effective classroom teaching in the Banadir region, Somalia. The paper discussed teacher professional qualifications as a person's academic or educational background or certificate that qualifies him or her to work as a teacher in a school and experience as the culmination of skill, exposure or training acquired over time that enables you to perform an existing job better or prepares you for a teaching position, others are years of teaching experience; teachers’ mastery of the subject; and teachers’ teaching or pedagogical skills as all the necessary cognitive knowledge for making teaching effective and to make suitable learning environments for learners. Several opinions of other authors were reviewed in this paper. The paper holds strongly that effective teaching is basically hinged on professional qualifications, years of teaching experience, subject matter knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge of the teacher. The paper notes with dismay that many teachers in Somalia still lack these requisite qualities. It was recommended therefore that pre-service teachers should be made to possess these core qualities such as, subject matter knowledge, and pedagogical content knowledge so as to meet up with the current trend in national education. It also recommended that stakeholders in education develop a strategy for monitoring the establishment of related educational institutions in the country to ensure that the standard is not compromised.