Al-Hikmah University Journal

This paper focuses on enhancing the instructional delivery of primary school teachers through in - service training amidst security challenges of the 21st century. Teachers are the engine room of the nation’s educational system and as such, their level of instructional delivery of the curriculum contents matters a lot. This was in view of criticisms in several quarters of teachers’ poor performance at the primary schools and the need for it to be improved upon via in - service training as a means to guide against security lapses presently bedeviling the nation now or in the nearer future. Adversely, a lot of factors have been identified to have or still affecting primary school teachers’ service delivery making the objectives of education at this level a mirage. It is important to note that primary education provides the foundation to other higher education and can also be said to have sustain life. In view of the aforementioned, this paper discusses concepts of teaching, primary education and in - service training. What to expect from in - service training of school teachers, instructional delivery process at the primary: at present; and security challenges faced with in the 21st century. In the end, the paper recommended that instructional delivery of primary school teachers can be enhanced through in - service training amidst security challenges.