Pre-service teachers' views on the effectiveness of teaching practice course

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to investigate pre-service teachers' opinions on the effectiveness of Teaching Practice course. A total of 50 pre-service teachers taking a last year Teaching Practice course participated in this study. Pre-service teachers' final reports were used as data for this study. Results indicated that the pre-service teachers have mostly positive views about Teaching Practice course, they approved that this course prepared them to the professional life however pre-service teachers also proposed some suggestions to improve the effectiveness of the course such as: increasing the number of formal teaching hours. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.