Abstract

• The purpose of this study is to find out the difference in perceptions of experienced senior teachers and pre-service teachers on classroom instructional planning in Sagaing Township. Quantitative methodology was used to find out the perceptions of experienced senior teachers and pre-service teachers on classroom instructional planning. The design adopted in this study was a survey research design. This study was limited to all experienced senior teachers in Sagaing Township and all pre-service teachers, B.Ed. Fourth Year Senior Students who are studying in Sagaing Institute of Education in (2013-2014) academic year. There were (184) senior teachers and (248) pre-service teachers. Therefore, the total population was (432) enough to allow census and the sampling procedure was not adopted. A questionnaire consisting of (44) items with one openended item was used developed by Ibrahim (2000). The data yielded from the questionnaire was analyzed by using the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) for collection of data. Research hypotheses were analyzed by using independent samples t test. The findings of this study of experienced senior teachers and pre-service teachers of Sagaing explained that perceptions of male and female of both groups were, more or less, same. Some differences were found in the perceptions of the groups. This indicated that teaching experience has an impact on the perceptions of teachers on classroom instructional planning, and the gender has no impact on it.