Abstract

CASTANEDA, Liliana Prada  and  ZULETA GARZON, Xatlí. Tasting Teaching Flavors: A Group of Student-Teachers´ Experiences in their Practicum. profile [online]. 2005, n.6, pp.157-170. ISSN 1657-0790.

Student-teachers expect their experience in the practicum to show them what teaching truly involves. Most of them are willing to put into practice all the theories and concepts they have learned and to find out if these actually work. This article reports on a study conducted on the experiences of four primary school student-teachers. The study led to the identification of their difficulties, to looking at how they felt about those difficulties, and to how they dealt with them. Instruments for data collection were the journals and group conferences used by the practice counselor and a semi-structured interview. The study revealed that a constant reflective practice allows practitioners to deal with all the different situations they have to face, and more so, to go beyond them.

Keywords : Teacher preparation; teaching practice; student-teachers; difficulties.

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