WAYS TO IMPROVE ?BTP QUALITY? AND THE EXTENT TEACHING PRACTICE CONTRIBUTES TO TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS.

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  • Ph. D. Professor Emeritus of Education Penn State University University Park, PA, 16801Philbert L. Vumilia, Tanzania.
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The present study draws from a 2011 BTP project that explored whether the teaching practice of using cluster monitors can improve teaching skills. In this article, the authors utilized school effectiveness ?knowledge base? to assess relevant approaches of improving teaching effectiveness in beginning teachers. The intent was to determine whether Block Teaching Practice (BTP) field experiences that included cluster monitors would deliver opportunities to novice teachers to improve their teaching effectiveness. First, this study critically examined the different viewpoints?clinical experiences, effective teaching, and ?monitors as mentors? of teaching practice. Second, the authors analyzed the dynamic features of teacher education and the field experiences of teaching practice based on observations of novice teachers in 2011, 2012, and 2013. Third, this article presents findings based on reports gathered from BTP monitors to clarify what constituted a learner-centered BTP experience that would bolsters effective teaching. Attention to relevant policies and homegrown master teachers emerged as possible indications for developing excellence in teaching effectiveness and quality of teaching practice. In addition, the study conceded that there seems to be more flexibility for action the closer one gets to the classroom level, thus making teaching effectiveness difficult for those aspiring to become effective teachers.

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Philbert L. Vumilia and Ladislaus M. Semali. (2017); WAYS TO IMPROVE ?BTP QUALITY? AND THE EXTENT TEACHING PRACTICE CONTRIBUTES TO TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 5 (10), 1082-1131, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5629

Ladislaus M. Semali
Professor Emeritus of Education Penn State University University Park, PA, 16801.

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