Assessing the teaching efficacy beliefs of teacher trainees
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Research shows that self-efficacy is an important concept which influences a teacher’s ability to teach and the effectiveness with which the teaching is done. Each teacher trainee has a sense of efficacy with regards to teaching which is influenced by many factors. This study aimed to determine the teaching self-efficacy of third-year teacher education students in three categories: student engagement, instructional strategies and classroom management. A questionnaire was administered as the survey instrument and provided data which the researchers analysed and interpreted. It was found that at this stage of the student teachers’ careers, that is, at the end of their third year of study, the student teachers responded with overwhelming positive self-efficacy beliefs with regard to their future occupation.
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