Teaching for Successful Intelligence
(The impact of Professional Program on English Language Teachers’ Style)
الملخص
This study aims to modify the score of English teachers' abilities in teaching successful intelligence in Jeddah and discover the differences in teaching for successful intelligence in light of some demographical variables such as: (teachers' years of experience; gender; teaching classes; and types of educational study). A quantitative approach was implemented using the questionnaire "Teaching for Successful Intelligence" by Palos and Maricutoiu (2013). The participants are 123 English teachers working in governmental schools in Jeddah.
The findings indicate that the total degree of the teachers' preferences for teaching styles relevant to stimulating the students' successful intelligence abilities is an acceptable degree (M=3.74). Creative teaching style has the highest degree (M=3.85), and the analytical teaching style has the lowest degree (M=3.64). No statically differences were found in TSI according to years of experience, but there are statically differences in TSI according to gender in favor of females in all dimensions and in the total degree except CT the differences come in favor of males. Based on classes per week of teaching, there are no statically differences in some of TSI except RT in favor of teachers who teach less than 10 classes and AT comes in favor of teachers who teach more than 20 classes per week. Also, there are no statically differences in TCI according to their educational study except in RT there is a statistical difference between groups in favor of teachers whose educational study was sequential study. Researchers recommend taking care of the pre-service phase and in-service teachers' training as well should inserting the new competencies of teachers in the light of the 2030 Saudi vision.
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