Classroom Interaction Analysis Using Flanders (FIACS)

Abstract

The competency of a teacher may adjudged through the degree of effectiveness of his teaching which in turn may be objectively assessed through his class-room behaviour or interaction. Flander system as a tool for analysis classroom interaction in the teaching and learning process, has two strength. Firstly it provides an objective method for distinguishing teacher verbal interaction and characteristic since it represents an effort to count teacher verbal interaction. secondly, it describes teaching and learning process. The researcher being a Teacher Educator at VISTAS, wanted to assess the student teachers of Commerce pedagogy of the year 2019-20.The researcher  asked all the student teachers  to prepare the same content and observed the classes using FIACS tool encoded and decoded the interactions. The results were given to the student teachers, to improve their teaching behaviour including to use more praises, clarify what the students say, ask questions, give direction, etc at the classroom.