Pre-service Teachers' Self-efficacy Beliefs at the Two Colleges of Botswana

Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs of two colleges that train secondary school teachers.
Place and Duration: Tonota College of Education and Tlokweng college of education in the month of October, 2013.
Methodology: The sample included 324 Pre-service teachers: 76 males and 86 females from Molepolole College of Education and 28 males and 134 females from Tonota College of Education, respectively.
Results: The response rate for Molepolole College of Education was 88.5% and for Tonota College of Education it was 72.3%. The overall response rate for the two colleges was 80.4%. Student Engagement (P = 0.01). Instructional Strategies (P= 0.01) and Classroom Management, (P=0.02).
Conclusion: Molepolole College of Education pre-service teachers have a high teacher efficacy in all the three subscales of TSES and Tonota College of Education pre-service teachers have low teacher efficacy which are similar in all the three subscales.