Teacher Quality and Educational Technology: A Tool for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Secondary Schools

Abstract

A teacher stands out as one of the most important factors determining the quality of education and its contributions to national development. At every level people who go to school look on the teacher for the acquisition of the necessary skills to enable them become what they want to be. However, the application of educational technology requires knowledge from several areas: pedagogy, psychology, didactics, computer sciences and informatics. This paper focused on teacher quality and educational technology: a tool for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) in secondary schools. It highlighted teacher quality and education, teacher quality for sustainable development goals, teacher quality and educational technology and measures for the achievement of sustainable development goals (SDGs). The paper concludes that, with the application of educational technology, students can independently progress in mastering teaching materials, to choose the pace of work, to repeat the material that is not sufficiently clear, that after tests performed immediately get results and track their progress. Recommendations were also made which include: Government should make available for the expansion of education and training facilities with a view to fostering and improving knowledge and skills relating to sustainable development and provide grand funding to develop the quality of human resource by providing enough expenditure for education development.