Compliance Level with Professional Knowledge and Skills Requirements by High School Physics Teachers in Akwa Ibom State: Implications for the Education of Science Teachers (Published)
The study examined the compliance level with professional knowledge and skills requirements in the professional standards for Nigerian teachers (PSNT) by secondary school physics teachers in Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. The population of this study comprised all physics teachers in all public secondary schools in the three senatorial districts of the State. The sample for the study comprised one hundred and twenty physics teachers that satisfied the purposive sampling technique criteria as spelt out. The researchers made use of an adapted checklist tagged “Physics Teachers Knowledge and Skills Checklist” (PTKSC) to ascertain the professional standing of the selected teachers in two subthemes (professional knowledge and professional skills) out of the four themes in the Professional Standards for Nigerian Teachers (PSNT). The validated and reliable checklist was used to collect the needed data. The results showed that male graduate/NCE, and experience physics teachers exhibit high level of compliance with the professional knowledge and skills contained in the PSNT. Based on the findings of the study, several implications for the education of science (physics) teachers were advanced. Recommendations were made to include that the TRCN in conjunction with teacher education supervising agencies should explore ways of raising the quality and relevance of teacher education curricula in line with the professional standard demands.
Keywords: Education, Physics Teachers, Professional Knowledge, Professional Skills, science teachers
The Degree of the Science Teachers Practice of Creative Thinking Skills at the Schools of Jerash Governorate (Published)
The study aimed at identifying the degree of the science teachers practice of creative thinking skills at the schools of Jerash governorate through their perspective by means of the questionnaire and their observations in the classroom through the note card as well as specifying the relationship between the results of the questionnaire and the note card. The study sample consisted of (210) male and female teachers; and in order to realize the research objectives, the researcher prepared a list of the creative thinking skills necessary for sience teachers and a questionnaire which included four basic domains which contained the science teachers practices related to the four fields of creative thinking in addition to a note card that incorporated the same clauses of the questionnaire. The results showed that the practice of creative thinking skills as a whole by science teachers through their perspective was average and that the degree of their practice of the same skills as a whole through class observation was low. There appeared to be a relationship between the degree of science teachers practice of the creative thinking skills from their own perspective and the degree of practicing the same skills through their observation in the classroom. In the light of the research results, a number of recommendations were produced.
Keywords: creative thinking skills., degree of practice, science teachers