Abstract:
This study investigated pre-service Management teachers‘ competence in
lesson plan preparation during teaching practicum in the University of Cape
Coast. Pragmatism research philosophy was the foundation for this study since
the research strategy was qualitative and quantitative. The convergent parallel
design was adopted to study pre-service Management students‘ competence in
lesson planning with a population of 120. The Census method was used for
the study. Descriptive statistics, specifically mean was used to analyze the
quantitative data and content analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data
for all the five research questions. The study found out that, the quantitative
and qualitative results shows that pre-service Management teachers' depicted
competence in knowledge of teaching resources and designing student
assessment. However, it was also found out that quantitative results shows that
pre-service Management teachers have competence in the demonstration of
knowledge of content and pedagogy, setting instructional outcomes and
designing a coherent instruction but the qualitative results from the content
analysis revealed that pre-service management teachers did not have
competence in the demonstration of knowledge of content and pedagogy,
setting instructional outcomes and designing a coherent instruction.
In view of this, it is recommended that the Centre for Teacher
Professional Development (CTPD) in the University of Cape Coast should
review its assessment for pre-service teachers . Also, Lecturers should be
encouraged to focus more on content knowledge and pedagogy, setting
instructional outcomes and designing a coherent instruction during methods of
the teaching course
