A COVID-19 Re-envisioned Teaching Practicum Curriculum

The changes taking place in the schooling landscape because of the coronavirus are real and meaningful and have implications for the training of preservice teachers, especially the teaching practicum component of their initial teacher education programs. The havoc caused by COVID-19 forced many facu...

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Main Authors: Carisma Nel, Carolina Botha, Elma Marais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: OpenED Network 2021-10-01
Series:Research in Social Sciences and Technology
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Online Access:https://ressat.org/index.php/ressat/article/view/554
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description The changes taking place in the schooling landscape because of the coronavirus are real and meaningful and have implications for the training of preservice teachers, especially the teaching practicum component of their initial teacher education programs. The havoc caused by COVID-19 forced many faculties of education into a state of ‘panic-gogy’ to ensure that student teachers could complete their teaching practicums. In this paper we argue that consideration should be given to core teaching practices and practice-based teacher education pedagogies (i.e., representations and approximations) that can be used in alternative “placement contexts” that will supplement and harness the authenticity of school-based experiences. We provide two conceptual tools, collaboratively developed by teaching practicum educators and mentor teachers, that can be used as heuristic by other university-school partnerships when considering teaching practicum redesign efforts.
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spelling doaj.art-c44958d614964e8a93c812bb141a92fd2023-02-15T16:16:02ZengOpenED NetworkResearch in Social Sciences and Technology2468-68912021-10-016210.46303/ressat.2021.29A COVID-19 Re-envisioned Teaching Practicum CurriculumCarisma Nel0Carolina Botha1Elma Marais2North-West UniversityNorth-West UniversityNorth-West UniversityThe changes taking place in the schooling landscape because of the coronavirus are real and meaningful and have implications for the training of preservice teachers, especially the teaching practicum component of their initial teacher education programs. The havoc caused by COVID-19 forced many faculties of education into a state of ‘panic-gogy’ to ensure that student teachers could complete their teaching practicums. In this paper we argue that consideration should be given to core teaching practices and practice-based teacher education pedagogies (i.e., representations and approximations) that can be used in alternative “placement contexts” that will supplement and harness the authenticity of school-based experiences. We provide two conceptual tools, collaboratively developed by teaching practicum educators and mentor teachers, that can be used as heuristic by other university-school partnerships when considering teaching practicum redesign efforts.https://ressat.org/index.php/ressat/article/view/554COVID-19preservice teachersteaching practicumpedagogies of enactmentpractice-basedwork-integrated learning
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practice-based
work-integrated learning
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pedagogies of enactment
practice-based
work-integrated learning
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