Developing Caring Dispositions in Preservice Teachers: Pilot Project

Autor/in	Nowak-Fabrykowski, Krystyna
Titel	Developing Caring Dispositions in Preservice Teachers: Pilot Project
Quelle	In: Teacher Education and Practice, 20 (2007) 4, S.444-463 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0890-6459
Schlagwörter	Teaching Skills; Preservice Teachers; Pilot Projects; Cooperating Teachers; Caring; Preservice Teacher Education; Teacher Attitudes; Early Childhood Education; Teacher Effectiveness; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehrbefähigung; Lehrkompetenz; Unterrichtsbefähigung; Pilot project; Modellversuch; Pilotprojekt; Co-operation; Cooperation; Teacher; Teachers; Kooperation; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerverhalten; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg
Abstract	The purpose of this study was to assess early childhood preservice teachers' caring dispositions. In this pilot project, 35 preservice teachers were involved. They spent 30 hours in the field. The tool for assessment--Caring Teachers' Components and Characteristics--was developed on the basis of the theory of caring per Noddings (1992) and Mayeroff (1971), as aligned with Praxis III (Dwyer, 1994). The co-researchers were the cooperating teachers supervising the candidates in the field. They served as assessors commenting on the progress of the candidates' caring disposition. The results of this research show that according to the cooperating teachers, preservice teachers manifested their caring disposition through some characteristics but that there are many that they still must develop. The strongest characteristics were their modeling ability (to encourage students to extend their knowledge), their monitoring of students' understanding, and their providing feedback. Also, the cooperating teachers pointed to our candidates' ability to establish and maintain rapport with students. Some of the weakest points were as follows: making content comprehensible to the students, organizing content for instruction, and reflecting. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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