EFFECTIVENESS OF CO-OPERATIVE LEARNING STRATEGIES ON THE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS OF B. ED STUDENTS

Every profession in this world is unique. To succeed in any profession, a person need to acquire some special skills in his initial training period and such skills are considered as professional skills. Teaching profession is also based on some professional skills that a student teacher has to be acquired. Co-operative learning strategies are successful learning strategies which could help Bachelor of Education (B. Ed) students to learn and achieve these professional skills during the training period of their course. In the present study, researcher has made an attempt to check the effectiveness of co-operative learning strategies and traditional lecture method on professional skills of B. Ed students. The Post test only-two equivalent control and experimental design is used in this study. Findings of this study showed a significant difference in the professional skills of B. Ed students of control and experimental group after instructed by lecture method and co-operative leaning strategies respectively. Finally it is concluded that co-operative learning strategies are more effective to acquire professional skills in B. Ed students as compare to traditional lecture method.