Volume 12, Number 3

Effective Teaching for Classroom Management Workshop: The Ghanaian Teachers’ Perspectives and Evaluation

  Authors

Kofi Ashiboe-Mensah, Ho Technical University, Ghana

  Abstract

The paper is about teachers’ reflection on and evaluation of continuous professional training and development. It is a qualitative survey, grounded in narrative inquiry framework of educational research with the assumptions that humans are social storytelling organisms. With a convenient sampling technique, 619 responses were received from 778 participants. Adopting a participant-centred mode of teaching, participants evaluated the workshop in their own words. With a human cognition of thinking, learning, and understanding, comments were classified into Bloom’s (1956) three learning domains of cognitive, affective, and skills combined with Perry & Booth’s (2021) concept of evaluating facilitators and workshop organizations and Kirkpatrick’s (1998) four levels of evaluation. Participants insisted that this workshop be extended to other schools to build the required foundation for students. They mentioned also that their exposures to contemporary instructional strategies meet the globally acceptable standards and are challenged as 21st century teachers. Participants maintained that they would go back to the classroom with different mind-sets to include learners during lesson planning.

  Keywords

Capacity Building, Effective Teaching, Classroom Management, Cognitive Learning, Pedagogy.