IMPROVING PRE-SERVICE PRIMARY TEACHERS’ SELF EFFICACY THROUGH LIFE SKILLS TRAINING

Primary teachers give shape to the future of little kids. Thus they have to be very competent in dealing with the children and to be aware about different circumstances which they are facing. This competence can be acquired by life skills education as it is found by various research evidences that life skills education can be an effective educational tool for every type of sample. In this direction researcher has tried to improve the teachers’ self efficacy of pre-service primary teachers through life skills training program in her research. Sample constituted total 52 teacher trainees (50 % female and 50% male; 50 % science and 50% arts) from DIET Lucknow, U.P., India. Purposive Sampling was used to select the sample. Results reveal that life skills training found effective in improving pre-service primary teachers’ self efficacy. But no significant difference was found between the mean scores of female and male trainees. Same as no significant difference was found between the mean scores of science and arts stream trainees.