Abstract:
This research has been designed to cover the following objectives (1) To find out the
perceptions of teachers, head of schools and teacher trainers about essential classroom skills
acquired by the trainee teachers. (2)To identify the essential classroom skills being stressed
during the teacher training program. (3)To determine if there are discrepancies between skills
being developed during the teacher training program and skills actually being used in the
classroom. (4) To identify the problems in acquiring and implementing the essential
classroom skills by the trainees teachers. (5) To determine if there are discrepancies between
the perceptions of heads, teachers, teacher trainers and researcher’s classroom observations.
Technique of multistage sampling was used. At first two Provinces Punjab and K.P.K was
chosen. Then five Districts were randomly chosen from the two provinces. Ten percent Govt.
Secondary Schools and ten percent heads of Govt. Secondary Schools were chosen from each
District. Two hundred and fifty teachers were selected as sample of convenience. Ten percent
teachers were chosen from the sampled teachers for classroom observation so hundred
teachers were selected for this purpose. An equal number of teacher trainers were taken from
each District.
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Three questionnaires were designed to get the responses of the teachers, heads, and teacher
trainers about the skills acquired during the teacher training program B.Ed & M.Ed and skills
required in actual classroom. A checklist was constructed to carry out classroom observation
of the teachers teaching in the classroom and to see the difference of skills required and skills
acquired. Data collected through research instruments was analyzed by using mean score, t-
test, ANOVA and Tukey test.
