Abstract
This study was premeditated to develop quality oriented model for restructuring of existing pre-service teacher education programs. Population of the study was comprised of all teacher educators and prospective teachers of teacher education institutions of Punjab and Islamabad, Pakistan. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select sample of 300 teacher educators and 890 prospective teachers from 30 institutions. Two research questionnaires were used for data collection. Results revealed that prospective teachers enrolled in Bachelor of Education (Honors) were dissatisfied with the institutional environment, practical work, assessment techniques and features of teacher education. Whereas prospective teachers enrolled in Bachelor of Education one year program showed dissatisfaction with program duration. that teacher Educators teaching at Bachelor of Education (Honors) expressed dissatisfaction about physical resources, teachers’ competencies, teaching strategies, assessment techniques, professional skills, appreciative features of programs and institutional efforts to raise quality of the programs. Prospective teachers and teacher educators associated with both programs somewhat expressed similar opinions regarding quality of the programs. It is, therefore, recommended that teacher education institutions may improve the quality of both programs keeping in view quality related concerns of the teacher educators and prospective teachers.
Highlights
Teaching is certainly an intricate job as it is much beyond the grasping subject knowledge and transmitting it to learners.Besides attaining insightfulness in subject it encompasses communicative and managerial skills in order to align and organize all learning activities with the content to be taught and can provide useful feedback adequately to the learners for further improvements
Responses of the prospective teachers of B.Ed. (Honors) revealed their dissatisfaction with the institutional environment, practical work assigned to them, assessment techniques used by their teachers to assess their performance, and features of teacher education program with respect to skill learning, use of Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT), merging upcoming educational trends and adequate planning
Though B.Ed. (Honors) is launched with anticipation to make teacher education more quality oriented and effective and to overcome shortcomings which are commonly associated with B.Ed. program but yet there are certain areas highlighted in the current study need to be focused to ensure the quality in B.Ed. (Honors)
Summary
Teaching is certainly an intricate job as it is much beyond the grasping subject knowledge and transmitting it to learners.Besides attaining insightfulness in subject it encompasses communicative and managerial skills in order to align and organize all learning activities with the content to be taught and can provide useful feedback adequately to the learners for further improvements. Dominant role of a teachers in direly demand appropriate and sufficient training of them so that they can do just with their professional commitments as well as can meet the expectations of people from them as nation builder. Debate on a professional development of teachers has gained distinct eminence as teachers’ professional quality and outcomes of students are associated with the quality of a teacher education. It is being considered as decisive factor to evaluate students’ learning. Teaching is multifaceted and multifarious profession that demands intellectual work it cannot be accomplished by a person who is not given adequate training or relevant professional education
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