Al-Hikmah University Journal

The quality of instruction and student engagement in classrooms, workshops, labs, and other learning environments is crucial to the success of any educational institution. Because the beneficiaries, the students, will in turn have an indirect impact on the economy of the nation as a result of their learned skills and knowledge, teachers should place a high value on professional training, which includes both the skills and knowledge attained for personal and career development. All attempts to improve educational quality should continue to centre on teachers since they are crucial actors and catalysts for change. Teachers need opportunities for continuous self-improvement; both career-long and career-wide opportunities that will enable them to acquire the skills, knowledge, and techniques needed for quality on-the-job performance in order to develop a responsive and effective teacher capable of undertaking the foregoing. This paper examines teachers’ capacity building as a veritable tool in gaining students’ academic achievement in public secondary schools in Nigeria. Specifically, the paper reviews relevant work on the use of capacity building in education. Also, reviews on studies that have touched upon the trends of capacity building in effective teaching and learning, capacity building models and theories, capacity building and students’ academic achievement and challenges standing against effective capacity building in Nigeria public secondary schools. The study suggested that government should own up to the provision appropriate training, necessary resources, materials and infrastructure that will foster sustainable teacher commitment to effective teaching and learning as well as ensure the successful implementation of the nation’s educational policies at the micro-level of the system.