Effect of teaching skills on classroom behaviour of prospective teachers in relation to their aspirations and teaching aptitude

Abstract

The aim of the thesis is to study the effect of teaching skills on classroom behaviour of prospective teachers in relation their aspirations and teaching aptitude. After going through all the pros and cones of various studies and analyzing the existing conditions, the present study was taken up on the prospective teachers with one of the purposes to determine relative effects of training in microteaching skills i.e. skill of probing questions and explanation. To study the effect of teaching skills i.e. skills of probing questions and explanation on classroom behaviour (w.r.t dimensions namely teacher talk ratio, indirect teacher talk ratio, direct teacher talk ratio, pupil talk ratio and silence or confusion ratio) of prospective teachers in relation to their level of aspirations (high and low) and teaching aptitude (high and low teaching aptitude). newline