Collaborative Skills of Pre-Service Teachers

Abstract

This paper analyzed students' perception of collaborative skills. Students were asked which areas on collaborative skills they needed improvement on and the challenges they had experienced in working with others. One hundred forty-seven first year students from the pre-service teachers' program with majors in mathematics and physical sciences were selected as the participants of the study using the purposive sampling method. Aquestionnaire was used for data collection. This study applied the descriptive research design.Results of the study indicated that students developed some aspects of collaboration but there was an area needing enhancement. The collaboration skills developed among students were being sensitive in taking opinions from others, working in a positive environment, giving positive to one another in order to improve as a group, acknowledging the works of others with compliments', and understanding other's point of view. The area needing improvement were on communication and interaction skills in order to motivate other members to share their thoughts and ideas.