Student Centered Techniques: Novice Teachers’ beliefs and Practices

Abstract

The present research study entitled Student centered techniques: Novice teachers’beliefs and practices aimed to find out the novice teachers’ beliefs and practices about student centered techniques. In order to achieve this objective, two research too ls classroom observation check list and questionnaire were used. Ten secondary schools and one teacher from each school from Saptari district were purposively selected for the collection of data. After preparing tools, I visited the selected schools to establishrapport with the Head and subject teachers. I administered the questionnaires to the selected teachers and also observed their classes for three days. The major findings of the study were that teacher-centered techniques were more frequently used by the novice teachers than student-centered techniques in the classroom. Similarly, it was also found that teachers were bound to apply teacher centered techniques in the classroom due to various reasons like; large number of students, lack of enough time, lack of teachers’ teaching skill. It shows that in the present situation, it is very difficult to apply student centered techniques in the classroom. This thesis consists of five chapters. The first chapter deals with the introduction of the topic in which background, statement of the problems, objectives, research questions,and significance of the study, delimitations of the study and the operational definitions of key terms are included. The second chapter includes the review of both theoretical and empirical literature, along with the implication of the review for the study. It also includes conceptual framework. The third chapter deals with the methods and procedures of the study. It includes research design, population and sample, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data collection procedure and data interpretation procedures. The fourth chapter includes analysis and interpretation of the data and the summary of the findings. Then, the fifth chapter presents the conclusion of the study and recommendations.