One-day-per-week school attachment: Voices of supporting teachers and year one student teachers

One-day-per-week school attachment: Voices of supporting teachers and year one student teachers

• Leung, Pui Wan Pamela The Hong Kong Institution of Education
• Luk, Ching Man The Hong Kong Institution of Education

2003

Second Symposium on Field Experience: Partnership in Field Experience (2003: The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MA Professional Education for Teachers

Teacher Education and Professional Development Teacher Education

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

The Bachelor of Education (Languages) Programme (BEdL) of the Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) was first implemented in 2001-02. As an integral part of the programme, the design of the Field Experience curriculum has its own characteristics. In addition to the traditional practice on classroom teaching, ranging from collaborative to independent teaching from Year Two onwards, the programme provides student teachers with opportunities for school visit and attachments through which they can better understand the requirements of language teaching in school contexts. Among all school attachments, the one-day-per-week attachment to a local secondary school in the second semester of Year One has received controversial feedback from various stakeholders. Such feedback reflects diversified considerations from schoolteachers involved about whether they will continue to support similar activities. Based on the feedback received in the past two years, this paper will first synthesize voices of current Supporting Teachers and student teachers of the BEd(L). Then the authors will discuss the effectiveness of such a mode of school attachment in preparing student teachers for classroom teaching. Taking the voices of Supporting Teachers and student teachers into consideration, we hope that this paper could help reveal a comprehensive evaluation of the design, and more important, enhance the quality of Field Experience with a view to forging a closer professional partnership between the Institute and schools.

Paper presented at the Second Symposium on Field Experience: Partnership in Field Experience, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong.

• English

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2015-02-25