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Early Practicum Experiences: Preservice Early Childhood Students' Perceptions and Sense of Efficacy
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Van Schagen Johnson, Amy; La Paro, Karen M.; Crosby, Danielle A. – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The current study explored early practicum experiences (those occurring before student teaching) in an early childhood birth to kindergarten teacher education program. Undergraduates enrolled in practicum courses completed questionnaires about their overall practicum experience including: socio-emotional components (their perceived fit with their…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education, Student Teacher Attitudes
Care, Thoughtfulness, and Tact: A Conceptual Framework for University Supervisors
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Cuenca, Alexander – Teaching Education, 2010
The pedagogical work of university supervisors has received little attention in teacher education literature. Based on this concern, this paper provides a conceptual framework for university supervisors, recasting their role as teacher pedagogues focused on responding to the particular contextual needs of student teachers as they learn to teach.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Field Experience Programs, Supervisors, Teaching Methods
Before Student Teaching: How Undergraduate Students in Early Childhood Teacher Preparation Programs Describe Their Early Classroom-Based Experience
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Maynard, Christine; La Paro, Karen M.; Johnson, Amy V. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2014
Classroom-based experiences, alternatively known as practica, are an integral component of undergraduate teacher preparation programs, which provide students essential opportunities to apply knowledge in practice. Though much is known about student teaching, much less is known about students' earlier classroom-based experiences. This…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Early Childhood Education
Sexual Harassment in Teacher Preparation Clinical Experiences.
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Brulle, Andrew R.; Mantarakis, Nicolas Z. – Action in Teacher Education, 1994
Self-reported survey data from 230 male and female students who had completed student teaching indicated that 17.4% alleged some form of sexual harassment during either their preclinical experiences or their student teaching. Alleged harassers included building administrators, cooperating teachers, and university supervisors. (IAH)
Descriptors: Administrators, Civil Rights Legislation, Cooperating Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education
Four Women's Stories of "Failure" As Beginning Teachers.
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Schmidt, Margaret; Knowles, J. Gary – 1994
This study focused on the "failure" experienced by four female novice teachers who were successful in university course work but experienced considerable difficulty in their initial teaching assignments. The difficulties these women encountered are examined through analysis of observation notes, interview transcripts, journals and autobiographical…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Cooperating Teachers
Making the Difference for Teachers: The Field Experience in Actual Practice.
Slick, Gloria Appelt, Ed. – 1995
This is the third in a series of four books presenting a variety of field experience program models and philosophies that drive the programs provided to preservice teachers during their undergraduate teacher preparation. This publication explores the internal workings of the relationships and events that have an impact on all the persons involved…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beginning Teacher Induction, Cooperating Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education