The Impact of using concept maps on developing the teaching skills and learning outcomes of pre-service teachers, in Kindergarten Department at King Faisal University

Abstract

This study aimed to apply the concept maps to determine the significant teaching skills of teaching the language skills, present the level of these teaching skills owned by the experimental group students, and test the hypothesis of whether there are statistically significant differences at the 0.05 level between the means of the learning outcomes of pre-service teachers in the language skills development, for the control group who studies through the traditional way and the experimental group who studies through the conceptual maps way. The researcher applied a quasi-experimental design and used the self-evaluation scale on 31 pre-service teachers. The results showed that the teaching skills of teaching language skills are summarized in three main skills which are planning, presentation, and evaluation, the pre-service teachers have high teaching skills, according to the self-evaluation form. Moreover, the experimental group outperformed the control group in the term of the self-evaluation scale. The results demonstrated the effectiveness of using concept maps on developing the teaching skills of pre-service teachers in teaching the language skills of kindergarten children. The researcher recom-mended using concept maps in teaching language courses for all academic levels and suggested studying the level of the university educators’ competence in applying effective teaching skills.