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INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUNDTO THE STUDY
In
theworld today, teacher’s education remaining a thing of focus, because
of its role in national development through political economical and
social development to meet societal needs. That is the reason of the
value of instrument depends to a large extent on the quality of a
professional training of teachers. Hence an enviable opportunity to
acquire competence needed for effective teaching in the area of
imparting knowledge, helping those being taught to become more aware of
their talents, power and how to use them and soon.
Similarly,in
teacher education, adequate preparation of the student’s teacher for
his task is very important for his/her success in field of experience
such field experience is a core aspect in the training of teachers and
often referred to as teaching practice. In Nigeria, students teacher
here often adopt practice from experience teachers, which are not in
line with the demands of current educational objective. The mistakes of
current educational objective. The mistakes have contributed to the
failure of many teachers in the classroom while pupils too become
dropouts. The overall effect for their professional calling is the
falling standard in education of our country. Hence, teaching practice
is essentially that which come into existence in the 19thcentury.
Its roots grew over the years to assure on indispensable and distinct
competent of teachers training program met any level. It is a
requirement that have its blue prints in Nigeria National Policy of
Education (1998) the third competent of teacher education curriculum
similarly, in the college of education, teaching practice is taken as a
core course of the curriculum and instruction what lasted 10-15 weeks
supervised teaching practice it began without credit load or unit
attached to it and as merely a requirement to graduates in education.
But now, teaching practice is weighed to carry a total of 6 credits for
students in college of Education in their final year.
Consequently,the
scheme is been geared as a launching pad for the emergence of a corps
of highly dedicated, devoted and capable teachers who are highly
predisposed to innovation as well as purposeful pattern of teaching.
This imperative for quantitative and sound supervision. However,
supervision entails the cooperate efforts of coordinating the students
teachers, the principal and all members of staff of the cooperating
school (i.e. school where teaching practice exercise is done) including
the college of education, the external supervisors and the students
teachers. In spite of these various hands in the scheme, students
teacher often come out complaining of one form of abnormality or the
other on the supervision exercises and supervision seems very vogue to
reckon with. It becomes necessary to investigate the student’s teacher
perception on the quality of teaching practice.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Teaching
practice was introduced like other practical experiences in fulfillment
of the certificate requirement of the teacher to be. It is an
experience every education students in the college of education must
undergo it was in view of the importance and necessary of teaching
practice that the need for a well programmed vitally well pattern follow
to achieve meaningful success. However,with the crop of grounding and
graduating teachers being varied in the scheme of professional growth,
teachers education proficiency and performance coupled with the
decreasing standard of teacher education product performance as well as
the falling standard of education, the learning problems seem burdensome
to resolve. Even those in teaching practice their ordeal in performance
create worry over what ought to be and how it was done. Similarly the
series of flush resulting from improper coordination. Thus these
variation in assessing teacher during teaching practice. This will
however, creates desire to study the students teacher perception of the
quality of teaching practices supervision.To ascertain the effectiveness
of supervision, the following are being tested.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
1. Determine the issue of teaching practice
2. What are the aim of teaching practice
3. Problem of teaching practice.
4. Quality of a good teacher
5. Did your supervisor hold any meeting with you after your teaching
6. How was the behaviour of the supervisor to you?
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of the study is to:
1. Determine the issues involved in teaching practice supervision
2. Highlight the obstacles constraints as well as various hindrances to the quality teaching practice..
3. Suggest various ways quality supervision of teaching can be realized.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
This
research is carried out with the issues, hindrances and prospect of
quality supervision of teaching practice in mind. Finding of this work
will however, go along way in making the teaching practice supervision
exercise a befitting one for the planners and students involved in the
programme. First the student’s teacher will be made to realize the
importance of the programme and to understand various areas of interest
to the students teacher to enhance his or her profession. The students
can see their supervisors as friends, helper and those cooperative
supervisors assisting useful means to getting the best.
The
supervising lecturers and other supervisors could learn how best to
accomplish the task. They will become innovative, creative, and
versatile in handling teachers to be during their teaching practice. It
will help the practicing school supervisor responsibilities in the
exercise so that they can render the necessary cooperation to those
practicing colleagues in all spheres, the programme so to have quality
and better teachers.
Lastly,
the educational knowledge involved will properly be called to the right
place thereby solving teaching/learning difficulties, which will be
made effective and both teachers trainees and students will gain
academically,. It will also help in making any necessary adjustment in
the appointment of supervisor for quality and effective exercise.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY
The
study is designed to find out students perception of the quality of
teaching practice supervision among lecturers. The study is restricted
to College of Education, where the research hopes to get information
from the present year three (Yr 3) students only who have just been
concluded their teaching practice.
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Friday 25 October 2013
ANALYSIS OF STUDENTS PERCEPTION OF THE QUALITY OF TEACHING PRACTICE
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