شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

This study aims at evaluating the performance of EFL intermediate school teachers through: 1) Identifying the various areas of instructional qualifications. 2) Evaluating the performance of intermediate school teachers (ISTs) who are teaching "Iraq Opportunities" series in terms of the identified areas. 3) Finding out whether there are significant differences between male and female teachers' efficiency in the various areas of teaching performance. The present study is limited to male and female teachers of English who are teaching "Iraq Opportunities" (IOs) series in the intermediate school in the city of Tikrit and its suburbs for the academic year 2011-2012. The sample of forty-two male and female teachers which represents 63% of its original population is involved in this study. An observation checklist which includes seven areas and sixty-one items has been constructed and exposed to a jury of specialists in order to ensure its face validity, reliability and to compute the discrimination power of its items. The selected sample of teachers has been observed for twelve weeks and evaluated in terms of the constructed checklist. The collected data are analyzed by applying the suitable statistical tools. The obtained results indicate that: 1) The intermediate school teachers (ISTs) are inefficient in the areas of "lesson planning", "presentation of the lesson material", and "teaching aids". 2) The performance of intermediate school teachers in the areas of "teacher's personality", "student's participation", and "student's assessment" is efficient. 3) Teachers' performance in the area of "language efficiency" is fairly efficient. 4) Male and female are equal in their instructional qualifications. Finally and according to the outlined results, a number of recommendations and suggestions have been submitted. (Published abstract)