An Evaluation Of The Professional Progra Of The Pre-service Primary Teacher Education In Ethiopia - Based On The Objectives Of The Training Progra.

The purpose of this study was to determine thernadequacy of the professional training of the pre-servicernprimary teacher education program vis-a-vis the overallrnobj ectives and specific outcomes of the program. And arns rvey was conducted by taking r andom sampl es of 410rngraduating students and 80 instructors from t h e TTls atrnDessie, Gonder, Awassa, and Nazareth . With a response raternof 75 percent, the data collected were analyse~ byrnutilizing appropriate statistical methods from which thernfollowing results were obtained;rnStatements of the overall objectives that focus onrnthe development of prospective teachers' competencies andrntheir ability to promote "community development" werernregarded as highly relevant and important to thernprofessional training; and t hat objective whi ch proposesrn"ideological training" was considered as least. import.ant.rn_ The professional preparation was rated as "more thanrnadeqLtate" ~ by b t•_, groups of respondents, in the skills ofrn"planning", "pre-sentation" and •!e• ... a~uation•, of classroomrnlessons; and the prepar at 1. on was rated as " inadequate" inrndea:ing with "classroom management" skills; no significantrndifference was observed between the two groups, expect. inrnthe area of "evaILlation" skills .rn- Some background characteristlcs of the respondentsrnsho~ed a significan~ re:ationshi~ with the1.r rati ng of thernerFcfess:.ional traini;fg: stwGer,ts with more pre-traini ng workrn(t=:.::-h:;f~) " e ;::, e~le~,ce," and those r,it:-f higT-. "tendency " torno-c~ o~t =~ ~eac~lng a~e :es~ op~i-_~ti= i~ ~~eir r ating;rnard tea::hers loollth more lIyears 0+ s2r".ce" in the TTls r atedrnthe train"ng morE pos:itivEly; the "wort~ of the feedback"rnstkdents reciEVed in the p~actice teaching period was alsornsignificantly aG~ ~asitively relatej with their rati ng .rnBased on these results, some recommendations are made:rnTT:is should formulate trainable objectives that arernsensitive to the professional needs of trainees; systematicrntrai~ing in professional skills should be provided;rnresearch on teaching and teacher education practices shouldrnbe encoura-ged in the TTIs; the teaching practice pYO,rCu'frnshould have a defin"te objective~ ~nd clos2r cooperationrnbetween the TTls and the Elementary schools should bernmaintained .

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