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| The
STAN Place |
| A Proposed Project
By the Science Teachers Association of Nigeria (STAN) |
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| An
artistic impression of The STAN Place to be built at Kwali,
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria |
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| Why
The Science Teacher Place? |
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| STAN's main
focus is on the improvement of science teacher effectiveness
through the organisation of workshops, seminars, and conferences
for teachers. User-friendly
textbooks have also been published. Through these activities,
we have made modest contribution to our national development
over the past four decades. Indeed, STAN is regarded as
the foremost science teacher association in Africa. However
there is a growing concern that STAN need not and should
not be contented with its leadership position in the African
region. The view is being held that we are not doing as
much as we should given the status of STM education in
the developed world and the overriding importance of STM
education in the emerging world order. In order to properly
position itself for effective role, STAN needs both human
and infrastructural resources. But while the Association
is blessed with a large reservoir of human resources,
the same cannot be said of infrastructural facilities.
STAN's Annual Conferences and Workshops which are held
in rotation in various parts of the country have exposed
the inadequacy of training facilities in STM teacher education
in the country. The Science Teacher Place
is conceived to solve this problem.
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| Structural
Overview |
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Science Teacher Place will have capacity for the training
of about 1,500 teachers at a time. The building will
consist of:
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A
conference hall to seat about 1,500 persons
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Six
laboratories with fittings and preparatory rooms
for primary science
(ages 6 - 11), integrated science (ages
12 - 14), mathematics (ages 6 - 17), physics (ages
15 - 17), biology (ages 15 - 17), chemistry (ages
15 - 17) to seat 50 persons each.
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16
- 20 seminar rooms for concurrent sessions each
to seat 100 |
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A
workshop for technology education to seat 50 persons
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A
multimedia library to seat 50 persons |
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Information-communications-technology
(ICT) room |
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A
bookshop |
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A
dinning room to seat 50 persons |
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Executive
Director's Office |
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Boardroom
to seat 50 persons |
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Five
other offices |
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