Metacognitive Awareness on Teaching and Teaching Competence of Secondary Prospective Teachers

Metacognition is the individual’s awareness of how he learns and what he does, employment of proper knowledge to gain his ends; the ability to employ cognitive skills that are required in an ordinary test, the knowledge of which strategies be employed with which goals, and the assessment of individual processes before and after the performance” (Flavell, 1997). Here, an attempt was made to investigate the relationship and differences of metacognitive awareness on teaching and teaching competence of prospective secondary teachers. The main objective of the study was to compare the significant mean differences and relationship of of metacognitive awareness on teaching and teaching competence of male and female secondary prospective teachers. A sample of 100 secondary prospective teachers consisted of 50 males and 50 females from Dr. PMIASE, Sambalpur, and Panchayat College, Bargarh, were selected randomly. For this study, both correlational and causal-comparative method was employed by the researcher. To collect data, the researcher used the Inventory of Metacognitive Awareness for Teachers (MAIT) developed by C. Balcikanli (2011) and the General teaching Competence scale (GTC) developed by B.K. Passi and Lalitha (1994). The obtained data were analyzed using”t” test and Pearson correlation coefficient “r.” It was that found the mean scores of male teachers are significantly better than the female teachers when metacognitive awareness was compared with teaching and teaching competence. Lastly, the result indicated there existed a strong positive correlation of metacognitive awareness on teaching and teaching competency concerning male and female student teachers.

VALORACIÓN POR LOS PROFESORES EN FORMACIÓN DEL DOMINIO AFECTIVO EN LAS SALIDAS AL MEDIO NATURAL COMO ACTIVIDADES DE ENSEÑANZA-APRENDIZAJE

ASSESSMENT OF PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS ABOUT AFFECTIVE DOMAIN IN NATURE FIELD TRIPS AS TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIESScience field trips of students have a positive impact about learning-teaching of Biology and Geology area. Nevertheless, few teachers carry out such activities in the right way. One reason could be the lack of studies concerning to activities focusing in the cognitive and affective teacher domains, especially in the first step of teacher education. Preliminary studies of our research group have shown that future teachers have wrong pedagogical concepts about these activities, sometimes related to their own experience as students. We study the assessment of prospective teachers about affective domain in nature field trips as teaching and learning activities. We analyzed 130 prospective teachers, 81 primary prospective teachers and 49 secondary prospective teachers. We use a single reflection on the merits of the science field trips with respect to the classroom. These prospective teachers were very much in agreement with the importance of these activities in enhancing their pupils’ affective domain. The 49.22% reported that science field trips generated improvements in the affective domain. Although this percentage is higher in secondary prospective teachers than primary prospective teachers (55.10% vs. 49.68%), the differences were not significant. No significant differences were found regarding gender of prospective teachers. Currently when it dominates a negative view of science among students is an important role for these activities. Therefore it is necessary to work these science field trip in-prospective teachers as they play a key role in the teaching and learning of these subjectsKeywords: Science field trip; affective domain; Teaching and learning activities; teacher training.Resumen.Las salidas al medio natural son de gran importancia en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de la Biología y Geología. Sin embargo, todavía son pocos los profesores que integran estas actividades en su docencia y en muchos casos lo hacen de forma poco provechosa. Además, apenas hay estudios centrados en el dominio cognitivo y afectivo de los profesores en este campo, y en particular durante las primeras etapas de su formación. Existe, por tanto, una carencia de información sobre la realización de estas actividades. Estudios preliminares de nuestro grupo de investigación han mostrado que los futuros docentes presentan concepciones pedagógicas erróneas e irreflexivas sobre estas actividades, a veces relacionadas con su propia experiencia como alumnos. Estudiamos la valoración por los profesores en formación del dominio afectivo en las salidas al medio natural como actividades de enseñanza-aprendizaje. Analizamos 130 profesores en formación, 81 profesores en formación de educación primaria y 49 de secundaría. Utilizamos una reflexión individual sobre las ventajas de las salidas al medio real con respecto a las aulas. El 49,22% señalaron que las salidas al medio natural generaban mejoras en el plano afectivo. Aunque este porcentaje es más alto en los profesores de secundaria que los de primaria (55,10% vs. 49,68%), las diferencias no fueron significativas. Tampoco se detectaron diferencias significativas en cuanto al género de los profesores. Actualmente cuando domina una visión negativa de las ciencias entre el alumnado es importante el papel de estas actividades. Por tanto es necesario trabajar estas salidas al medio natural en profesores en formación pues juegan un papel fundamental en la enseñanza-aprendizaje de estas asignaturasPalabras clave: salidas al medio natural, emociones, formación del profesorado, enseñanza aprendizaje del medio natural