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Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1995
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Fall 1994 Interns Evaluation of Their Preservice Program.
Drummond, Robert J.; Drummond, Heather A.
As part of the continuous evaluation of the teacher training program at the University of North Florida, the fall 1994 interns were asked to provide feedback on their experiences. They were asked to complete a questionnaire at the end of the internship in which they rated their confidence in performing the skills and competencies needed for teaching, but also asked to write about their peak experience, their worst experience, their strengths and weaknesses, and the experience from which they learned the most. Of the interns, 180 responded to the survey; 87 were female, 21 were male; 9 were minority group members. The results indicated that overall the interns felt confident about their ability to teach but perceived weaknesses in working with special needs students in the regular classroom, classroom management, and conferencing with parents. They saw as their strengths their instructional skills and knowledge and their creativity and flexibility. They recommended that the program include more field experiences, more multicultural experiences, and that the faculty be more "reality based" rather than so theoretical. Ten appendices provide verbatim data on peak experience, situation that led to most growth, most negative experience, what should have been taught, major strengths, major weaknesses, incident that helped the intern grow, suggestions for program improvement, metaphors and similes, and demographic and confidence ratings. (JB)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Internship Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Self Esteem, Student Characteristics, Student Teachers, Student Teaching, Teacher Characteristics, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Interns
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
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