Collaborative Skills of Pre-Service Teachers

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