Pre-service Management Teachers‘ Competence in Lesson Plan Preparation During Teaching Practicum in The University of Cape Coast

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