Exploring pre-service teachers' opportunities to learn to teach science with ICTs during teaching practice
| Autor: | Thuthukile Jita |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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teacher education programme
Medical education Restructuring 05 social sciences 050301 education Subject (documents) Context (language use) teaching practice 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Science education Focus group Teacher education Education Information and Communications Technology ICT ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION ICTS Sociology OTL science education 0503 education 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Education (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Issue: 71, Pages: 73-90, Published: 2018 |
| Popis: | Teaching practice is an important component of the teacher education programme that provides opportunities for pre-service teachers to learn in the context of real classrooms. In this paper, I use the framework of opportunities to learn (OTL) to analyse data from a mixed-methods study on the experiences of pre-service teachers with learning to integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the teaching of science during teaching placement in schools. A sample of 103 science pre-service teachers from one mid-size university in South Africa completed a survey on their use of ICTs for subject teaching during teaching practice, 21 of whom submitted 33 actual lesson plans from teaching practice for analysis and participated in 4 focus group interviews. The findings show that the teacher education programme provided uneven opportunities to learn for students in the same cohort. These findings have implications for how universities should structure teaching practice experience for equitable OTL for all pre-service teachers, especially with respect to the integration of ICTs for subject teaching. Thus, I recommend restructuring of teacher education programmes to better the opportunities for future teachers to learn to use ICTs for subject teaching during and after teaching practice. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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