Enhancing Teaching Proficiency through Mobile Learning During School Experience Programme

Abstract

Increase in the availability and accessibility of mobile phones has given the common man a medium for engagement, entertainment, learning and being connected to each other at the click of a button. A study was conducted to see the change in teaching proficiency of 2nd year student-teachers pursuing Diploma in Elementary Education - a pre-service teacher education programme in Delhi, India. The data was collected while the studentteachers were placed in schools for their School Experience Programme. The study was conducted on 30 student-teachers assigned in two experimental groups and one control group. Complete teaching sessions of student-teachers in experimental groups were recorded using the video recording feature of the mobile phones, and shared along with the feedback which was sent through SMS or WhatsApp feature of the phones. Further, teaching tips were also shared with one of the experimental groups. The results of the study indicated that teaching proficiency of student-teachers in the experimental groups have improved to a greater extent in comparison to their counterparts in the control group.