ABSTRACT

This study analyzed Improvement need of teaching practice in ekiti state university

          Three (3) null hypotheses where formulated to guide the study.

          The population of the study comprised of the student in the faculty of education in Ekiti state University.

          The sample of the study was draw from the faculty of education, Ekiti state University. The year one student of the various departments under the institute of education Ekiti state University made up the sample for this study.

          The design of this study was the survey design.

The instrument used for the study was the questionnaire. The questionnaire was meant to be completed by education students.

          The data collected was analyzed using the percentage. The researcher administered a total of one hundred questionnaires.

(1)         About 75% of the respondents agreed that many students teachers are unable to differentiate between the weeds of the individual child rather they teat each alike.

(2)         About 69% of respondents agreed on this problem of improper control and wrong disciplinary measure on the student teacher resulting to the tumbling of the student teacher in the classroom.

(3)         Financial problem is another area about 88% of the respondents agreed on this as a major problem.

CHAPTER ONE

INTRODUCTION

Background to the Study

The effectiveness and academic accomplishment or disappointment of any country solely depends greatly on the quality of its educational system. The academic greatness mostly depends on the quality of her teachers. Akinpelu (2005)        

Accounting to Ukeje (2007) stated that education is so influential tools that can “save and destroy” it can create or pull down, it can drain.

Teaching as a profession and like any other profession has prescribed services it renders to any human society. It is therefore absolutely necessary for many individual who went to become a teacher to acquire shills and demands.

The need for teaching practices is one of such relevant factors in teacher’s education programmed.

          Teaching practice is an “integral part” of teacher education which occupies a phase of its own during the phase, they teacher is sent out by his training institution (of lower level). For the purpose of putting into practice the skills he has learnt under the supervision of an experienced teacher.

          Every teacher should be made to realize that only teacher who has passed both theory paper and compulsory practical training examination are considered trained and certified. No teacher is considered fit the award of a pass grade in teaching unless he or she successfully fulfills the prescribed practice regarded as a core course of teacher education programmes, which affords student teacher the opportunity to face the realities of their professional career. The exercise enables the student teacher to adjust and overcome some of the practical problems of teaching often encountered in the classroom.

          The Ekiti state University teacher who is able to examine a problem from a variety of perspective had the advantage of being in a position to use different approaches.

Further more, he is also likely to perceive him self as a factor in problem under consideration.

          The important of teaching practice in teacher education programmed cannot be over emphasized. It is the crucial period the teacher put into practical, the student teacher encountered a lot of difficulties (problems) which they have to grapple with for effective teaching learning to place.

          In Ekiti state University, teaching practice is important to the student’s teacher’s understanding the appreciation of the principles of child growth and action to the teaching learning process. Presently there has been a lot of concern about teaching practice in Ekiti state University, it’s especially on it effectiveness and purpose. The concern have been variously expressed by educationist in the faculty of education in Ekiti state University, student themselves and the general public, the thought book written by some of the journal and mass media.

          Accepting the assumption that not every body can teach effectively and teachers are made not born. It therefore follows that Ekiti state University teachers can be aided to acquire practice knowledge, skill and attitude to good teaching.

Statement of the Problem

          Teaching has it own problem and usfullness which professional teachers try to overcome by teaching practice. Because the teacher is still practicing teaching he/she is comforted by peculiar problems.

          Among the problem faced by the student teacher are:

1)           Planning the lesson.

2)           Poor class management and control.

3)           Lack of facilities in practicing school.

4)           Poor method of teaching.

5)           Ineffective usage of teaching aids.

6)           Inability to differentiate between the needs of the individual child and

7)           Supervision

Objective of the study

The purpose of the improvement need to teaching practice in Ekiti state University is as follows:

1.   The examine the improvement need to teaching practice in Ekiti state University

2.   To examine the relationship between the attitude or practicing school and student’s teacher performance during teaching practice in Ekiti state University

3.   To analyze the relationship between availability of teaching aids and student teacher’s performance during teaching practice in Ekiti state University

Research Question

1.           Is there any relationship between the attitude or practicing school and student’s teacher performance during teaching practice in Ekiti state University?

2.           Is there any relationship between self-confidence of the student teacher and his performance during teaching practice in Ekiti state University?

3.           Is there any relationship between availability if teaching aids and student teacher’s performance during teaching practice in Ekiti state University?

Hypotheses

Hypotheses 1: there is no significant relationship between the attitude of practicing school and student teacher’s performance during teaching practice.

Hypotheses 2: there is no significant relationship between self-confidence of the student teacher and his performance during teaching practice.

Hypotheses 3: there is no significant relationship between availability of teaching aids and student teacher’s performance during teaching practice.

Purpose of the Study

          The purpose of the study is to highlight the improvement need of teaching practice in Ekiti state University as well as other institution encounter during teaching practice. How those constitute problem, improvement strategy and consequences on those students teacher’s and teaching in general.

          This student also tried to find the major threat that attempt to weaken this pragramme

Significance of the Study

          The benefit that could be derived from the out come of this research work are as follows-:

(a)          It could provide the student teacher with useful information on likely problems they are going to face during teaching practice and to make them prepared to overcome these problems.

(b)          It could make the student teacher to be an are of what the teaching profession demands and what it takes to be a good teacher and function properly in a school environment.

(c)          It enables the supervision and teaching organizers to know the various problems student teachers face during teaching practice.

(d)          The state and federal ministries of education would be aware of the problems student’s teachers encounter whenever they are out on teaching practice and this would enable then to provide lasting solution to those problems.

(e)          Finally all out come of this would increase the volume of literature for student teacher in Ekiti state University as well as other institution, during teaching practice.

Scope of the Study

         This study is restricted to the analysis of the problems of student teachers during teaching practice exercise. Teaching practice, as an exercise is included in the education programmed of all teachers’ producing in institution.

          It therefore means that what obtain in one case in applicable in another case as far as problems of teaching practice its concerned. However, in obtaining the necessary data that aided the researcher final analysis and condition the study was restricted to Ekiti state University alone, both full time and past time student where the researcher was able to tap information from students who have at one time or the other done teaching practice.

Limitation of the Study:

There is no doubt that during the course of writing this project many limitations were faced some of them include the following-:

1.        Time factor: the time was a big constraints compared to the volume and quality if the work to be done.

2.        Data collection: this process passed a lot of limitation to this work due to source of data mentioned may not be enough ever the ones collected were collected in a rigorous form.

3.        Finance: this is also another limitation as a result of the fact that every stage of this work needed finance beginning from stage to the last stage.

4.        Respondents: these are also limitation due to the preservation attitude of some people in realizing vital information

Definition of Terms

The concepts are defined as they have been used in this work.

Teaching Practice: It is an integral part of teaching education which occupies a phase or it’s own.

Student Teacher: A college student in a teacher training institute, who went thought requires course in a teacher education programmed before being assigned to a co-operating school for professional laboratory experience.

Backward Children: They are those that are below average in their subject but they may be good in one or two subject their intelligence quotient is much more below 100

Extrovert: They are the noisy, pushful type of children their nurse grievances, they have no patience for work that needs thinking; they prefer activities that involve action.

Introvert: They are the quiet types who really don’t speak out their minds for people to know what they are thinking they grievance.

Individual Different: Individual in variable differ from one another in the extent of their growth and their development progress tends not to be inform in all area within the individual e.g. physical growth may progress at a different rate then intelligence growth.

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