Some Effects of Teaching Practice

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Responses to a questionnaire concerning experiences on their first teaching practice and their reactions to it were obtained for 218 Diploma of Education students at the University of Melbourne. Six main factors were investigated and compared with a similar analysis for Canadian students. The relationships between these factors and changes in attitudes, anxiety and commitment to teaching were examined for a sub-group of 95 students. The major factor to emerge was marked by the students' impression of having students respond well to their teaching, little trouble with discipline and satisfaction with teaching as a future prospect. Those who felt they had learnt a lot from teaching practice tended to be those who had been given close supervision and good facilities in the school in addition to getting a good response from the children. A teachers' strike which was in progress at the time had little influence, except that contact with radical teachers seemed to shift the students' attitudes on pupil control in the humanistic direction.

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