The Degree of Basic Stage-Schools' Teachers' Practicing of Personal, Professional and Social competencies in light of Curriculum Development for 21st Century

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the degree of practicing the personal, professional and social competencies of the basic level’s teachers in the Jordanian schools of Al-amal for the Deaf and to achieve this objective a special questionnaire was built to measure the specified competencies and it was applied on 40 male and female teachers after its validity and reliability were asserted.

The study concluded that the degree of practicing the personal, professional and social competencies was high in general where the personal competencies were the highest followed by social and professional respectively. And the study also showed that there were no statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) between the means of the degree of practicing the personal, professional and social competencies could be attributed to the sex variable and there were no significant differences between the means of the degree of practicing the professional and social competencies could be attributed to the scientific qualification variable while there were statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) between the means of the personal competencies attributed to the scientific qualification in favor of the bachelor degree holder. And the results also revealed that there were no statically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05) between the means of the professional and the personal competencies could be attributed to the practical experiences where as there were statically significant differences between the means of the social competencies attributed to the experience variable in favor of those who have experience less than five years and there statically significant differences between the means of all the competencies attributed to the experience in favor of those who have experience less than five years.

And based on these results, the researchers recommended the necessity of exchanging the experiences and the information of the personal, professional and social competencies through exchanging visits, holding the seminars, the training and rehabilitating courses between the members of the population of the study to enhance the necessary competencies of the Arabic teachers who teach the deaf students in all the levels.

Keywords: personal competencies, professional competencies, social competencies, the deaf