Novice Teachers’ Views towards Classroom observation for teacher Professional Development
Date
2017
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Faculty of Education Engish
Abstract
This study entitled “Novice Teachers’ Views on Classroom Observation for Teacher
Professional Development” aimed to identify novice teachers’ views on classroom
observation in terms of classroom management, clarity of explanations, student
engagement, patterns of interaction, use of a second language and delivery of instruction.
Secondly, it had aimed to find out the importance of classroom observation from the
perspective of novice teachers’ professional development. Keeping the objectives in
consideration 30 novice English language teachers were selected from thirty different
private secondary schools of Kathmandu district through non-random purposive sampling
procedure. I used questionnaire as the research tool including 30 close ended questions
and five open ended questions. After analysis and interpretation of the data, it was found
that majority of the novice teachers of Kathmandu district seemed positive towards
classroom observation in terms of different aspects of teaching and learning activities in
the classroom. Furthermore, novice teachers opined that through classroom observation
they could improve their skills and knowledge of different teaching and learning
activities in terms of classroom management, delivery of instruction, pattern of
interaction, clarity of explanation, use of a second language and student engagement from
the perspective of their professional development.
This study consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with background of the study,
statements of the problem, objectives of the study, research questions, significance of the
study, delimitations of the study and operational definitions of the key terms. The second
chapter deals with the review of theoretical and empirical literature, implications of the
study andconceptual framework of the study. Likewise, the third chapter deals with the
methodology adopted for the study in which, design of the study, population, sample and
sampling strategy of the study, research tools sources of data, data collection procedure
and data analysis and interpretation procedure of the study are discussed. The fourth
chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data descriptively and
using simple statistical tool i.e. percentage. Similarly, the fifth chapter deals with the
findings based on the analysis and interpretation of the data, conclusion derived from the
findings and recommendations. This chapter is followed by reference and appendices.
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novice teachers’ views, classroom observation, professional developments