Increasingly, the importance of a student teachers' feeling of self-efficacy with respect to roles of teacher is being recognized as an important prerequisite of success as a teacher. This study focused on student teachers' feeling of preparedness, cl...
Increasingly, the importance of a student teachers' feeling of self-efficacy with respect to roles of teacher is being recognized as an important prerequisite of success as a teacher. This study focused on student teachers' feeling of preparedness, classroom management, planning of instruction, using a variety of methods, educational accountability, and ability of decision making. Also, roles of cooperative teachers and university adviser, and the causes of stress student teachers experienced during the teaching practicum were investigated.
The subjects were 80 student teachers of the present practicum and 80 of reinventing practicum. The data were analysed with mean, standard deviation and t-test.
The results showed that 1) new program student teachers felt prepared to teach better than those of the present program. Especially, new program student teachers felt prepared in aspects of classroom management, ability of decision making and instructional skills and knowledge. 2) Student teachers of new program thought their cooperative teachers helped them in instructional skills and knowledge, interaction of children and classroom management while their university adviser helped them in only developing professionalism. 3) Although the student teachers in this study found their teaching practicum a valuable experience, they also viewed it as the most stressful part of their teacher education program. Student teachers of both programs perceived multidimensional nature of teacher's role, assignment, evaluation, interaction of cooperative teachers and gap of theory and practice as the source of stress. But new program student teachers were driven by stress of roles of a teacher, interaction of coopreative teachers and difference of theory and practice less than those of the present program.