Appropriate Methods for Building Teachers Competencies for Effective Social Studies Instruction

Teaching method is a way of planning, addicting and execution of teaching proper with the appropriate integration of instructional materials to achieve the objectives or goals of the curriculum at the classroom level and beyond. For the goals of the curriculum to be actualized, it calls for teacher competencies in the use of appropriate methods for goal delivery in Social Studies instruction. This paper x-rays appropriate methods for building teacher competencies for effective Social Studies instruction. It also looked at the conceptual framework which are the fulcrum in which the wheels of this paper rotates. The paper highlights the problems of the study with emphasis on the use of non-professionals in the teaching of Social Studies. The paper recommends among others that professional Social Studies teachers should be used in the teaching of Social Studies