Title: Exploring the Effect of Field Training on Pre-Service Teachers' Beliefs Development
Abstract: This study describes Korean pre-service field training experience and analyzes how it affected their beliefs about teaching as a profession and classroom practices. Five student teachers were interviewed before and after a four-week training period, and then this interview data were analyzed in the light of their daily practicum journals. The results show that the student beliefs of a teaching profession were reinforced positively in general through the interaction with students during the training. However, their beliefs about an effective teacher and teaching methods changed a lot due to the practical issues they faced in classroom contexts. In such change, the disposition and educational philosophy of guidance teachers were found to have played an important role. Given with different opportunities for practice-teaching lessons and observation, different amount and type of feedback from guidance teachers, different extent of freedom in selecting teaching contents and socializing with students, the pre-service beliefs were influenced greatly. These results support the importance of field training for pre-service teacher education and highlight the role of guidance teachers at site schools. For more effective teacher training, therefore, further research and efforts will be needed to develop more flexible and various on-site support systems.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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