Employability of Teaching Aids by Pre- Service Teachers at Colleges of Education in District Jammu

Abstract This study was carried out in District Jammu of Jammu and Kashmir (U.T) to study the perception of the pre-service teachers regarding the employability of the teaching aids in teaching practice program. Along with this, the researchers also tried to find out the difficulties encountered by pre-service teachers for preparing the teaching aids while teaching practice. The researchers also made an attempt to understand the opinion of pre-service teachers towards using ICT as a teaching aid during the teaching practice. In order to achieve the articulated the objectives, a total of 310 pre-service teachers of all the private B.Ed. colleges (19) of District Jammu has been selected with the help of simple random sampling technique. Out of 310 pre-service teachers 290 pre-service teachers were females and 20 were males. From each selected B.Ed. college 25% sample has been selected. The data collection process was accomplished with the help of self-constructed semi-structured questionnaire and Likert type scale. The findings indicated that half of the respondents thought that instruction given by using teaching aids promotes active involvement of the learner. The study found that 48% pre-service teachers believe that using teaching aids in the teaching process makes the teaching process more effective. The study revealed that 50% of the respondents felt that ICT enabled devices were gradually replacing the use of traditional teaching aids. 73% were able to use ICT for assessing the students’ knowledge in their concerned subject while 27% of the respondents did not agree. The study found that 50% respondents thought that ICT aided learning helps the students in saving time, energy and resources.