Secondary School Teachers’ Effective Teaching Practice

Abstract

Teaching practice as a vital process where learning takes place. This study aimed to examine the effective teaching practice of Malaysia secondary school teachers and how these practices differed among teaching experience groups. There were 322 secondary school teachers from Johor state , Malaysia involved in this study. Descriptive statistic and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) were applied to analyse the finding. The results indicated that sampled teachers have higher scores in practising effective teacher attributes, following by teaching planning, classroom management, teaching strategy and lastly was professional responsibility. Besides, significant difference were found between teachers less than three years teaching experience with 3-5 years, 6-10 years, 11-15 years, 16-20 years and more than 20 years across five subaspects of effective teaching practice.

Keywords: Effective teaching practice , Teaching experience, Secondary school teacher.