Abstract

The greatest benefit of teacher preparation programs is field-related training where pre-service teachers contextualize the learned knowledge and theories with tasks and students during training. This preliminary study is based on the collaboration between a teacher training program and an elementary school to investigate the effect that exposure to various sources of teacher efficacy has on pre-service teachers in Taiwan. The results of this study show some influences of classroom experience and group discussions on the teaching efficacy of this group of pre-service teachers. Pre-service teachers demonstrated a higher level of PTE after the classroom experience and group discussions.

Citation

Liaw, E.C. (2009). Teacher efficacy of pre-service teachers in Taiwan: The influence of classroom teaching and group discussions. Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 25(1), 176-180. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved December 9, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/196646/.

Keywords

• EFL
• elementary school
• Group Discussion
• pre-service teacher
• teacher efficacy
• teacher training