The Development of a Training Package for Student-Teacher Counseling Skills

Abstract

The purposes of the study were 1) To develop a training package for counseling skills of student teachers, 2) to study the effectiveness of the developed training package on student teachers’ counseling skills, and 3) to study student teachers’ satisfaction with learning with the developed package. The study was conducted using a combination of the developmental and a quasi-experimental design. Two groups of participants were assigned to the study. Group one consisted of 3 experts taking part in the training package evaluation. The second group consisted of 32 student-teachers majoring in learning psychology who were selected using voluntary random sampling. The instruments include a training package for counseling skills of student-teachers, a training package evaluation form, a pre-post test, and a satisfaction questionnaire. The mean score and standard deviation were used to analyze the data gained from the training package evaluation form and satisfaction questionnaire. A paired-samples t-test was used to study the effectiveness of the developed training package. The results of the study could be concluded that the training package was developed with the potential to improve the participants’ counseling skills. At the implementation stage, the participants’ skills were positively affected after participating in the training program. Moreover, they were satisfied with the learning activities throughout the training package. The results of the study could be implicated in teacher education and research studies aiming to understand how counselling skills could be developed.