Implementing Virtual Teaching in Nigerian Colleges of Education: Human and Material Resource Challenges

This paper tries to point out the human and material challenges in curriculum implementation in most of schools and most especially in colleges of education. The covid-19 pandemic forces a new paradigm of implementing the curriculum in the name of virtual teaching and learning, and how unprepared for it we are as a nation. The paper, therefore stresses the need for teacher educators as well as prospective teachers to embrace the online platforms in curriculum implementation, as the only way to ensure continuous teaching and learning, away from the conventional classroom experience that we are used to in a crisis like this. The paper recommends that the government should really get involved in the provision of digital materials that would make virtual teaching possible, if the nation would record any remarkable success in curriculum implementation during a crisis like this, most especially in teacher training institutions.

Key words: Education, pre-service teachers, curriculum Implementation, virtual learning, Covid-19