EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING SKILLS AMOUNG TEACHER STUDENTS: AN ANALYSIS (Pages 166-176) by Dr. Prashantha Kumara T.M in THE INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SPECIALIST / ISSN: 2350-1499 (Online); 2350-0751 (Print)

A teacher is to work at the highest level of efficiency and that he should be acquainted with those feedback techniques which may enable him to monitor his performance. If a teacher is made conscious of his performance through variety of feedback techniques it is likely that we may continue to improve the standards of the teaching. The whole set up of micro teaching has been arranged to develop these skills among student-teachers which will improve his/her teaching learning process. It is based on the assumption that the process of teaching can be analyzed into a number of skills called the teaching skills. There are thirty seven teaching skills and among them the core teaching skills which are of extensive use in classroom teaching are-skill of introduction, skill of probing questions, skill of explanation, skill of illustration with examples, skill of stimulus variation, skill of reinforcement, skill of classroom management and skill of using black board, and by mastering them one can become an effective teacher. In this paper an experimental study was conducted on 60 B.Ed. student teachers of Ballri district on the basis of non-randomized pre-test and post-test design. The results revealed that there was a significant improvement in the impact of acquisition of skill of introducing a lesson, skill of explanation, skill of illustration with examples and skill of questioning when feedback was provided more than two sessions with various modes like supervisory, peer and audio video feedback. Though there are possible chances of not providing proper feedback during the initial sessions, the skilled ability to evaluate and provide constructive feedback increases the quality of teaching when there is an increase in the number of sessions of feedback as information provided to the trainee about his/her performance is cognitive in nature and should be effectively used in the teacher training institutions.
Keywords: teacher training institutions, micro teaching, teaching skills, pre-test and post-test, feedback techniques, experimental study,