Preservice teachers’ experiential learning: Production of digital stories to nurture children’s positive values

Preservice teachers’ experiential learning: Production of digital stories to nurture children’s positive values

• Lee, Fung King Jackie The Education University of Hong Kong

The 11th European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL2023) (2023: London, United Kingdom)

• G Curriculum, Teaching & Learning: Specific Disciplines
  • GA Chinese Language
    • GAE Teaching Methods of Composition & Their Outcomes
• F Learning & Teaching
  • FD Application of Communicative Media, IT in Learning & Teaching
• B Human Behaviour
  • BB Interests, Attitudes & Values

• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• Singapore

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

In Hong Kong, the Education Bureau stipulates in the curriculum document that schools should enrich English language learning and teaching through incorporating moral and civic education, and use of information technology for interactive learning. To prepare preservice teachers to meet these pressing demands, an experiential learning project was conducted to engage student teachers outside the formal curriculum to produce a series of digital stories that stress values education for primary school children. A total of 11 bachelor of education students and MATESOL students joined the project, in which they collaboratively developed 12 digital stories using online tools, such as Book Creator and Canva. Interactive learning activities were designed to accompany the digital stories to facilitate school learners to develop positive values and good character, including respect, responsibility, confidence building, problem solving, sportsmanship, friendship, caring, helpfulness, compassion, civic sense and service to others. Various evaluation methods were used to gauge the usefulness of the experiential learning project. These encompass school trials, post-lesson evaluation, student teachers’ self-reflections and interviews. The findings indicate that the experiential learning process not only enabled the participating student teachers to enrich their pedagogical knowledge and skills but also provided opportunities to enhance various generic skills, such as creativity and critical thinking. Evidence shows that experiential learning plays a valuable role in equipping student teachers with the necessary skills for the challenges in their future teaching careers. Copyright © 2023 ECLL.

Paper presented at The 11th European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL2023), London, United Kingdom.

• English

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2024-11-11