Abstract
The relationship between working experience and need for instructional skills is of major importance for the teaching and learning process. It seems teachers need to develop their teaching methods inside the class in order to activate students to learn more effectively. The researchers decided to find out if there is any relationship between working experience and need for instructional skills. The data was obtained from more than 31 randomly chosen lecturers through questionnaire from the Faculty of Educational Studies at University Putra Malaysia. From the results, it was concluded that there is no relationship between years of working experience and need for instructional skills.
Highlights
Every lecturer has his own way of teaching
Objectives of this study The objective of this study is to investigate the extent to which faculty members with more experience feel the need to improve their current instructional skills
It is concluded that there is no relationship between working experiences and need for instructional skills
Summary
Every lecturer has his own way of teaching They all teach but how successful they are and how they can be more successful in conducting the class is to a great extent the central reason for this research to find out if there is any relationship between need for professional development with regards to instructional skills and year of teaching experience. The researcher begins this research since there is a constructed feeling that there is a need for professional growth, instructional skills and teaching skills for teachers regardless of the years of working experience. Often lecturers believe that their working experience is sufficient to teach, train students, run the class, be effective, be encouraging, be productive and fruitful, i.e. they are skillful and experienced enough to teach effectively and appropriately and they do not need any development in their jobs. If a teacher is not well trained, how is s/he to train well?
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