Effect of 5 E Model-Based Teaching on Pedagogical Competency of Bioscience Trainee Teachers During B.Ed. Internship Program

Development of pedagogical competency of science teacher is an important quality to be enhanced in the teacher education institutions. To improve teaching and pedagogical competency, pre-service teacher education system organizes internship activities in which trainee teachers need to deliver lessons in the practicing schools. 5 E model-based teaching and learning is one of the significant model of constructivist theory. However, its use in B.Ed. internship program is considered as a new way of designing practical experience for pre-service teacher education. Because most of the teacher education institutions prefer to provide training on traditional and activity-based lesson planning skill instead of constructivist one. Hence, it is important to explore effectiveness of 5 E model-based teaching on development of pedagogical competency of trainee teachers. The main objective of the study was to find out the effect of 5 E model-based teaching on pedagogical competency of Bioscience trainee teachers during B.Ed. Internship program pre-test post-test experimental research methodology has been carried out to conduct the study. One performance test on pedagogical competency is taken as a tool for this research. It is found that there exists significant difference in between post-test control group and experimental group with respect to achievement of B.Ed. Bioscience teachers in pedagogical competency test. It is suggested that in teacher education system 5 E model can be utilized as an effective model of lesson planning and internship teaching for improving their pedagogical competency.