Abstract
According to the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE, 2010), effective teaching practices and good clinical experiences share a mutually beneficial relationship. Additionally, according to research reported by AACTE (2010), an important link exists between future P–12 student-achievement and effective clinical practices experienced by pre-service teachers. This case study sought to determine experiences deemed effective or important by nontraditional pre-service teachers while engaged in fieldwork completed in an elementary and/or middle school classroom setting. Four themes were derived from the qualitative data obtained through semi-structured interviews of four junior or senior teacher education students engaged in clinical field experiences. These finding are discussed in this paper.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5038/2379-9951.3.2.1026
Recommended Citation
DiLoreto, Melanie
(2018)
"Clinical Field Experiences of Nontraditional Pre-service Teachers: Issues and Beliefs,"
Journal of Practitioner Research: Vol. 3
:
Iss.
2
, Article 3.
https://doi.org/10.5038/2379-9951.3.2.1026
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/jpr/vol3/iss2/3
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