Compare And Contrast The Teaching Beliefs And Attitudes Of Pre-Service Teacher

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Introduction The beliefs and attitudes of the people in certain institutions like the school are the seeds of knowledge, values and skill. The beliefs and attitudes about education for example influence an individual’s thinking, feeling and acting the way he/she does without doubt, because these come from his/her conscious and sub-conscious mind level. As such, the teacher’s educational beliefs and attitudes strongly influence what they teach and how they teach and what they learn. Likewise, teaching beliefs and attitudes are often the focus of change in the progress of education. Thus, beliefs and attitudes of teachers drive classroom behaviour’s and actions, and influence change in the classroom. The teachers’ decisions and course of …show more content…

They developed their own techniques, strategies and approaches to make students learn. The researchers want to explore the different teaching beliefs and attitudes of the pre-service teachers because as future educators, they must learn how to adjust with the teaching-learning environment and be prepared to deal with their future students. As pre-service teachers, the researchers are interested in exploring the beliefs and attitudes of pre-service teachers toward the teaching profession. To understand teacher-pedagogy, as to what constitute good instructional practice, it is also important to consider the beliefs and attitudes of pre-service teachers toward teaching as their profession. Presumably as future teachers, their own instructional practices reflect, to a large extent, what they believed to be good teaching, and these beliefs and attitudes about good teaching shall reflect their understanding about how students learn. Fundamentally, teachers’ beliefs and attitudes may shape their professional practice in the future.

Statement of the Problem The major purpose of this research is to explore the beliefs and attitudes of Pre-Service Teachers of CIE, AY 2015-2016 towards Teaching.
Specifically, it seeks to answer the following questions:
1. What is the profile of the respondents in terms of :
• Age

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