A Survey of In-service Training Programs Effectiveness in Teaching Skills Development from the View-point of Students, Teachers and Principals of Guidance Schools in Shiraz

Abstract Of all guidance-school teachers of the four districts in Shiraz who were participating in in-service training classes of geography and Arabic, and their principals as well as their students, 150 were selected according to clustered-sampling method to investigate the relationship between the effectiveness of in-service training programs and teachers’ teaching skills. The employed instrument contained three scales. The first scale was submitted to the principals to evaluate the teachers’ skills before, during and after their teaching. The second scale was handed to the students to evaluate their teachers’ skills of teaching. The third one, which investigated the level of the effectiveness of in-service training programs, was responded by the teachers themselves. The results revealed that:1-From the view-point of principals, no relationship was observed between the effectiveness of in-service training programs and teachers’ skills for lesson plan preparation, teaching demonstration and students’ evaluation.2- From the view-point of students, a meaningful relationship was observed between the effectiveness of in-service training programs and teaching demonstration skills at p=0.001 level of significance.3-Female teachers were evaluated higher than male teachers in all three teaching skills. Specifically, the difference was meaningful in lesson plan preparation and students’ evaluation skills at p=0.01 level of significance and a meaningful relationship was observed in teaching demonstration skill at p=0.0001 level of significance from the view point of students. From the principals’ view, no significant relationship was observed between male and female teachers in respect to their teaching demonstration skills.5-Work-experience of teachers had no effect on their teaching skills development.