First, teacher skills, both content- knowledge and classroom management, must be upgraded. Theory and practice are joined when real-life applications of knowledge are brought into the classroom. Furthermore, the program places the various disciplines alongside one another. No longer are the sciences and the humanities without connection to one another. Schools and local businesses, too, develop a closer relationship.
Students visit professionals in their work place, and professionals visit the school.
When students understand the relevance of what they are learning, the implications of the various fields for a career, they more readily study, and their performance in school improves. Ogene, a native of Nigeria who has spent much of the last twenty-five years in America as a student, a teacher, and a college professor, says he has been welcomed with open arms by the Nigerian government. The program should substantially aid Nigeria in its movement toward modernization.