A study on needs and guidelines for enhancing instructional competencies of lower secondary school science teachers under the Office of the National Primary Education Commission, educational region seven
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study needs and guidelines for enhancing instructional competencies of lower secondary school science teachers under the Office of the National Primary Education Commission in educational region seven. The sample used in this research were 233 science teachers. The research instruments were questionnaires for collecting data about needs for enhancing instructional competencies of science teachers and interview guidelines form for collecting data about guidelines for enhancing instructional competencies of science teachers. The obtained data were analyzed by means of percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation and content analysis. The research findings were as follows: 1. Science teachers' needs for enhancing the instructional competencies of six aspects were at high level, the first enhancing need of each aspect of the instructional competencies were 1) In the aspect of curriculum and science teaching: knowledge and understanding about science teaching techniques. 2) In the aspect of contents of science: knowledge about advances in science and technology. 3) In the aspect of science process skills teaching: experimenting skill teaching. 4) In the aspect of science instructional media: the capability to create computer assisted instruction. 5) In the aspect of science measurement and evaluation: the capability to create the instrument for measuring scientific attitudes. And 6) In the aspect of research, general knowledge and ability: knowledge and capability to do the classroom research. 2. The way for enhancing science teachers' instructional competencies should be done in form of workshop, disscussion, teaching demonstration, group activities, academic activity participation, lecture, field trip, science camping, conference, seminar and producing document science and technology progress to distribute to schools or to have the schools often received science and technology journal respectively.