International Journal of Academic Pedagogical Research (IJAPR)
  Year: 2023 | Volume: 7 | Issue: 1 | Page No.: 61-66
Teaching Anxiety and Teacher Confidence of the BEED and BECED Preservice Teachers Download PDF
Aprile Mae Ancheta, Alethea Marie Ednave, Caryl Joyce Iroy, Nicole Pascual, Mary Jane Pepito

Abstract:
Practice Teaching is an integral part of the teacher education program. Pre-service Teachers are deployed to the school to train and apply the knowledge and skills they learned during 1st year to 3rd year and apply what they have observed during Field study in the real classroom setup. Despite of 3 years of equipping the pre-service in both knowledge and skills, anxiety is inevitable and one of many disquiets they will experience. The researchers utilize a mixed method that aims to find the relationship of 4th Year BEED AND BECED Pre-service Teachers Teaching Anxiety and Teaching Confidence. The study used quantitative and qualitative, Quantitative data is collected using survey instruments: STAS (Student-Teacher Anxiety Scale) a modified questionnaire, adopted from Akinsola (2014) and Teaching Confidence Scale a modified questionnaire, adopted from Hoi and Spero (2005), and for qualitative data the researchers constructed one open ended questionnaire to support the results of the STAS AND Teaching Confidence Scale questionnaire. The paper utilized Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software to treat the gathered data with the use of the following statistical tools: frequency distribution and percentage, Pearson-r with an alpha of 0.05. The study showed that Pre-Service Teaching Anxiety does not affect Pre-Service Teaching Confidence of 4th Year BECED and BEED. The result of the study revealed that there is no significant relationship between Teaching anxiety and Teaching confidence.