Prospective teachers’ views on a tabular lesson plan format in teaching practice exercise in Kwara State
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2022-04
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Department of Social Science Education, Faculty of Education, Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria
Abstract
This research examined prospective teachers’ views on a tabular format lesson plan in
teaching practice exercise in Kwara State. Specifically, this study examined the prospective
teachers’ views, extent of use, challenges and ways to improve tabular format lesson plan.
The population of the study comprised 400l students in the Faculty of Education, University
of Ilorin. The sample for this study comprised 240 respondents selected using simple random
sampling technique. Descriptive survey design was employed and a questionnaire titled
“Prospective Teachers’ Views on a Tabular Format Lesson Plan Questionnaire
(PTVTFLPQ)” was used for data collection. Four research questions were raised and
answered. The findings of the study revealed that tabular format lesson plan served as a
blueprint/guideline to prospective teachers in teaching practice exercise. The findings of the
study showed that the teachers frequently used tabular format lesson plan. The findings also
revealed that challenges associated with using tabular format lesson plan were problem of
allocating time to different stages of activities on the lesson plan and inability of the teachers
to predict students’ activities before class. The findings of the study also identified the ways
to improve the use of tabular format lesson plan. Based on the findings, it was recommended
that prospective teachers should be more encouraged in the use of tabular format lesson plan
as it enhance effective teaching and behavioral objectives should cover all the domains of
learning such as the cognitive, affective and the psychomotor domains of learning when
writing a lesson plan.
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Empirical study
Keywords
Prospective teachers, Views, Tabular format lesson plan, Teaching practice
Citation
Olokooba, I. N. & Uyanne, E. O. (2022): Prospective teachers’ views on a tabular lesson plan format in teaching practice exercise in Kwara State. Akungba Journal of Research in Education, 10, (1); 17-30