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Exploring the Value of Student Teaching Practice: Insights from Preschool Student Teachers in Kosovo
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Nita Bakija-Haraçija; Rozafa Ferizi-Shala; Trenia L. Walker – Cogent Education, 2024
Research has shown that effective teacher preparation should include both theoretical knowledge and experience. This is becoming even more important at the early childhood-level as funding for programs that prepare people to work in preschool settings. There is evidence that experience gained during the student teaching practice is most effective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teaching, Preschool Teachers, Student Teachers
Placements Abroad and Scaffolding Structures
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Aamaas, Åsmund; Duesund, Knut; Lauritzen, Solvor Mjøberg – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This paper uses scaffolding theory to examine structures surrounding Norwegian preschool student teachers on placement in India. Through a case study involving a teacher-training programme in Norway, we explore the extent to which learning outcomes from international placements in a foreign cultural context depend on scaffolding structures. Using…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Foreign Countries, Placement, Preschool Teachers
Candidate Mentor Supervisor Model: A Case Study
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Allen, Kristine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this research was to better understand affordances and constraints of the Candidate Mentor Supervisor Model (CMSM) as experienced by teacher candidates and their mentor supervisors. The results indicated perceived benefits to teacher candidates. Candidates participating in the CMSM reported a sense of nested support within their…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Student Teacher Supervisors, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Models
Most Important Competencies of Cooperating Teachers during the Field-Based Experience: Perceptions of Participants in Two Preschool Teacher Preparation Programs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Hussain, Ibtesam Abdul-Qadir Yassin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Cooperating teachers (CTs) are considered one of the most important groups who play a role in the success of student teachers (STs) during their field-based experience (FBE). The literature in the Arabic world about how CTs should fulfill their role has been limited with most of what is available has been conducted in the United States and other…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Student Teaching
Examining the Conflict Resolution Modes of Clinical Supervisors and Teacher Education Candidates
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Hanshaw, Larry G.; Williams-Black, Thea; Boyd, Nichelle; Jones, Bobby Smothers; Love, Fannye; Thompson, Judith – College Student Journal, 2010
This article explored the conflict handling modes of 63 student teachers and 36 clinical instructors participating in a preK-12 semester of student teaching. Initial results of the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument indicated that both student teachers and their clinical supervisors used "Accommodating" as their preferred mode and "Avoiding"…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Conflict, Conflict Resolution
Using the Project Approach in a Teacher Education Practicum
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Vasconcelos, Teresa – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
This paper describes the early childhood teacher training program and the role of the Project Approach in the final practicum for student teachers in the Lisbon School of Education, Portugal. Student teachers, cooperating teachers, university supervisors, and instructors of teaching methods worked together to involve young children in interesting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Practicums, Preschool Children