An Assessment of Language Teacher Educators' Classroom , Performances: The Case of Awassa College of Teacher Education
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2007-02
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Since the start of modern education in Ethiopia, many reforms have been made in education in
general and teacher education in particular to improve its quality. As part of this, very recently, a
guiding material called Teacher Education System Overhaul (TESO) was developed and put in to
effect with detailed pedagogical competence and personal qualities teacher educators should
exhibit in their classrooms. This is believed to provide the student teachers with good model
practices of the theories they have learned.
Thus, the researcher is inspired to assess the language teacher educators' classroom performances
in accordance with the suggested methods of language teaching and personal qualities. The
researcher, therefore, set the following objectives: assessing their perception on the methods and
personal qualities, their performances, and the potential problems that could affect their
classroom performances.
The study addresses issues related to the language educators' perception of the methods and
personal qualities suggested both in the general language teaching pedagogy and in the TESO
material and their classroom performances. Besides, the language educators' relationships with
the student teachers, modelling, practicum, problems that affect their performances, and higher
diploma are discussed.
For this, Awassa College of Teacher Education was selected as area and four willing language
educators were made subjects of the study. These language educators were observed twice
teaching in their classes, evaluated by their students, interviewed and made to discuss in a group.
Then the data was explicitly described.
The findings indicated that the language teacher educators' classroom performance was below
satisfactory. Based on this, the researcher recommends that professional development oriented
programmes should be organised and/or strengthened to help language educators develop
professionally and become better practitioners. This will shorten the journey for quality
education.
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Assessment, Language Teacher Educators