Mastery Level of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Skills Among Prospective FPTV Teachers

Abstract

Education transformation certainly makes the role and duties of teachers larger, more challenging and more complex. Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal communication skills are extremely important for a teacher in the delivery of education, classroom management and student interaction. This study aimed to examine the level of mastery of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills of future teachers on FPTV. The respondents to this study were 175 final year teachers and they covered all the courses offered in FPTV. The questionnaire was used as a research instrument. Data were analyzed using statistics in terms of frequency, percentage, mean score, standard deviation, Independent T-Test and Pearson correlation. The findings of the study have shown that the highest level of mastery of interpersonal skills is teamwork and the highest level of mastery of intrapersonal skills is the domain of personality. However, presentation skills, listening skills, emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence are at a moderate level. The study also reported that there was no significant difference in the level of interpersonal and intrapersonal skills based on gender. Finally, a few proposals for future studies were made, including making comparisons for skills between teachers teaching at the secondary school level and vocational colleges. It aims to find out the level of skill difference that teachers have in the two kinds of schools. Besides, it is recommended to focus on increasing the number of studies on technical instructors, as the search results indicate a scarcity of research on the level of engineering abilities among technical teachers. Given that BPLTV is a prominent aspect of education in Malaysia, it is imperative to undertake more regular studies on BPLTV teachers.