Field experience is done to provide an opportunity to preservice teachers to develop pedagogic, professional competencies, personality, and social holistically through classroom learning and interactions outside the classroom. The purpose of this study is to describe what preservice teachers observe and what their perspective process they get…

Field experiences are an integral part of teacher education programs because they provide preservice teachers with an opportunity to put the theory, they are learning in their university classrooms into practice. The purpose of this research study was to explore the preservice teachers' virtual field experiences at two universities during the…

The purposes of the research were to (1) study the quality of reflections among student teachers in the categories of self-reflection and peer feedback and (2) compare the level of reflection between groups of teachers with less and more teaching experience. The sample consisted of 112 general science student teachers. An analytical framework of…

Teaching practice (TP) remains one critical means of exposing student teachers to actual classroom experiences with a view to equip them with the needed pedagogical skills. The voice of the student teachers is vital in order to understand their experiences in the field as a way to ensure better outcomes for current and future teacher trainees.…

Many school districts across the United States now offer online K-12 education, and the proportion of all students in higher education taking at least one online course is at an all-time high of 32% (Allen & Seaman, 2013). With the evolution of online teaching and learning, teacher preparation programs must establish and offer online student…

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…

This research examined preservice teachers' knowledge of emotional and behavioural disorders (EBD) and their sense of efficacy. The participants included a convenience sample of 230 undergraduate general education and special education preservice teachers enrolled in teacher education classes. The age of the participants ranged from 19 to 51 with…

Schools of education must refine factual and theoretical information to the point where it is applicable to specific problems. (NQ)

Describes the University of Redlands efforts, through a unique 4-week semester, to actively explore the existence of an almost extinct people, the Cahuilla Indian tribe. (Author)

Colleges and universities are encouraged to be innovative and creative and to be willing to experiment in an effort to find newer and better ways to provide expanded opportunities for field experiences for new teachers. (Author)

The effects of including both field participation and classroom experience for prospective teachers in an introductory course in education at West Virginia University were compared in this study. Four groups of prospective teachers were randomly selected from a total population of 487 students. Each group consisted of 15 students--freshmen,…

Discusses some dangers that can result from poorly conceived and/or implemented field experience programs and offers suggestions for remediation. (Author)

The proportion of time that teacher candidates in field-experience programs spent on eight types of classroom tasks was examined for two field-experience programs that differed in constancy of placement. In both programs, teacher candidates spent most of their time on clerical tasks and little time on whole-class teaching (their most valued task).…

Many colleges and universities have developed internships to offer students work experience in the fields of fitness and exercise. The article identifies typical problems that occur in internships and proposes feasible solutions. Problems occur in four areas: intern academic preparation, intern accountability, supervisor's skills, and…

Despite the failure of recent research to demonstrate some of the "promise" of early field experiences for teachers, early experiences retain substantial appeal and should provide important diagnostic information relating to the needs of the teacher preparation program. The early field experience, an exercise in the teacher preparation…