Abstract

This study aimed at knowing up to what level the academic staff at Tafilh Technical University possesses effective teaching skills according to two variables: the faculty and years of experience, and for the sake of achieving the study's aims. A main-three-section questionnaire was developed based on (planning, teaching, and evaluation). Each of these sections has a set of paragraphs that describes it, and after checking the psychometric properties of the tool, it was distributed to the study sample that is about 101 academic staff members. The results showed that the academic staff at Tafilh Technical University has an advanced level of teaching skills. Moreover, the results showed that there were no statistically-marking differences attributed to the faculty variables, humanity or scientific. The results showed that there were statistically-marking differences in the teaching and evaluation that were attributed to the faculty variable, and it was positive for the Faculty of Humanities. The results also showed that there were no statistically-marking differences in the planning and evaluation that were attributed to the variable of years of experience. Meanwhile, the results showed that there were statistically-marking differences in the teaching attributed to the variable of experience, and it was positive for the faculty. The experience is from 10 years of experience and above. The study recommended making more studies about teaching skills and how good the academic staff in other universities are at them and according to other variables such as gender.