Abstract:
Life Skills Education (LSE) is expected to equip the learners with psycho-social competences and interpersonal skills
to enable individual make informed decisions, solve problems, think, critically and creatively, communicate
effectively and relate with other people. The main objective of this study was to investigate teacher preparedness in
teaching of LSE. Purposive sampling, simple random sampling technique and stratified sampling techniques were used
to select the study sample of 30 head teachers and 68 LSE teachers. Questionnaires, interview schedules, checklist and
observation schedule were used to collect data. Descriptive statistics with the aid of Statistical Package for Social
Sciences (SPSS) package was used to analyze data from questionnaires while qualitative data from interview schedule
and classroom observation schedule were analyzed by thematic analysis. The main findings were that most teachers
had not been trained on LSE hence indicating low level of preparedness. The study recommends that teachers need to
be trained on the LSE through workshops, seminars and in-service training.
