QUALITY TEACHER EDUCATION PROGRAMME AND ACADEMIC STAFF PERFORMANCE OF IGNATIUS AJURU UNIVERSITY OF

Because "no school system can rise above the quality of its instructors," a teacher education programme is essential for high-quality education. The Nigerian government saw teacher education as a way of raising and educating qualified, highly motivated, and conscientious instructors into the teaching area, based on this idea. As a result of this recruitment process, the system's quality service delivery (job performance) has improved. As a result, the purpose of this study was to look into "Quality Teacher Education Program and Academic Staff Performance in Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Port Harcourt." The study's goal is to see if there's a link between intrinsic interest arousal and academic staff performance at Ignatius Ajuru University of Education's Teacher Education programme, professional self-development, and academic staff performance. The study was directed by three (3) research questions and two (2) hypotheses. The study used a correlational research design. The study's population consisted of 420 lecturers, of whom 205 were chosen using simple random sampling. Data was collected using the “Quality Teacher Education Programme and Academic Staff Performance Questionnaire (QTEPSAPQ)”. The instrument was validated by two specialists, and its dependability was proved by the Cronbach Alpha index of 0.78. With the help of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Software version 20, descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation were utilised to answer the research questions, while regression analysis was used to evaluate the hypotheses. The study's findings demonstrated that academic staff members' intrinsic interest in their jobs, as well as their professional self-development, were directly and favourably associated to their job performance. As a result, the teacher education programme can forecast academic staff performance. As a result, the study suggests that the government and school administration ensure that future recruitment activities at the institution are based on teaching qualifications. This would aid in the weeding out of quacks from the educational system, encouraging professionalism in the teaching profession and ensuring quality service delivery.

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