Effect of Practice Teaching Schools’ Climate on Professional Development of Prospective Teachers in Balochistan
Abstract
Practice teaching is a period of professional development in which schools’ climate has a great effect on the lives, thoughts and attitude of prospective teachers. Much care is taken in the selection of the content for prospective teachers but no care is taken in the selection of practice teaching schools. Unwillingness of the mentors, lack of support from leadership, unavailable resources, discouraging attitude of the staff and students in practice teaching schools leave an adverse effect on prospective teachers. Good experiences and opportunities contribute to the professional development of prospective teachers but when some of them have bad experiences and unfavorable working environment in their practice teaching schools, they re-think about their choice of teaching profession. The present study was designed to measure the effect of Practice teaching schools’ climate on the professional development of male and female prospective teachers. Simple survey was conducted from 145 participants of Quetta city, enrolled in Associate Degree in Education (ADE) / B.Ed (Hons) program through the use of cluster sample technique. Two self-developed questionnaires built on five point Likert scale were used to collect data. SPSS version 20.0 was used for the analysis of data. The findings of the study showed that majority of the participants found positive climate in practice teaching schools where they went for teaching practice. No gender difference was found in professional development of the prospective teachers regarding the effect of positive and negative climate of practice teaching schools.
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