This study aimed at evaluating the Practical Teaching Programme in the faculties of education in the Greater Darfur universities: Zalingei, Nyala and Al-fasher. The researcher employed the analytical and descriptive methodology to investigate the significance of practical teaching in preparing teacher trainees in the faculties of education in the Greater Darfur universities.
The researcher constructed three tools for the research. These are 'student evaluation card', 'teacher trainee questionnaire' and a 'structured form' for interviewing the inspectors. The researcher employed these data collection tools after developing them and maintaining their reliability and validity at 0.88 and 0.87 as per Alpha Cronbach correlation factor for the 'student evaluation card' and the 'teacher trainee questionnaire', respectively.
To manipulate the data collected by the research tools, the researcher employed the Statistical Package for Social Scientific (SPSS) to obtain frequencies, means, standard deviations, Chi-square, correlation significance and degree of freedom. Accordingly, the researcher concluded the following findings:
The teacher trainees showed high skills in lesson planning and teaching in practical teaching schools, but they showed a weakness in setting evaluative tests and analyzing take-home assignments. In addition, there is some weakness in non-class activities compared to other activities. The teacher trainees also showed discipline until quit hours, particularly while the inspectors were paying visits to schools. Highly noticed successes among the teacher trainees were developing distinctive relationships with school administrations, their colleagues, students and their guardians. However, the teacher trainee participation in Guardians and Teacher Council sessions was insignificant.