The Islamic University- Gaza Deanery of Higher Education Faculty of ...

9. Lack of focus on the linguistic competencies since most trainees ranked items related topedagogical knowledge as “how to teach” higher than content knowledge- knowledge of thelanguage itself items. Trainees also demanded native speakers trainers mainly to improvetheir language proficiency and to get benefits of these native speakers on linguistic aspects10. Insufficient inclusion of up-to-date INSET models as study groups, portfolios, journalwriting depending mostly on traditional techniques in training especially lecturing despitetrainers emphasis on demonstration lessons, thus trainees are still in need for morepractical guidance11. Inadequate employment of recent evaluation tools as portfolios and teaching journals12. Limited collaboration entailed in the planning process between different stakeholders, forexample, schools principals are not involved in programme planning, despite the fact thatschools principals are real soldiers in the field, they are aware of trainees weakestperformances thus their involvement can provide rich feedback.13. Diversity problems where trainees come from different schools in different educationalZones, these schools are with different needs, even trainees themselves are of variousabilities and levels; this highlights the importance of giving a chance for more school- basedtraining.Generally, it can be said that current reality of INSET in Gaza is not much better than thescene of most Arab countries as shown previously in the countries survey results and provedwithin studies of Alwan (2000); Al-Ansari ( 1999); El- Muteeri (2007); Shandaweali (1999)with several shortcomings and inadequacies in common including theoretical orientation,limited resources, lack of clear–cut strategy, clear–cut goals, and lack of collaboration betweenpre-service institutes in colleges and universities and in-service training providers.Furthermore, the current English INSET programme share similar negative aspects andpitfalls with other programmes conducted in other specifications as Arabic, Math or even P.E.- 177 -