120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Chemistry Education
Room No. Exhibition Hall 2+3
Time 10월 20일 (금요일) 13:00~14:30
Code EDU.P-506
Subject Supporting teaching practicum of pre-service chemistry teachers through social media [우수포스터상]
Authors HAK BUM KIM, Jeongho Cha1,*
Institute for Phylogenomics and Evolution, Kyungpook National University, Korea
1Division of Science Education, Daegu University, Korea
Abstract Teaching practicum is an important opportunity for pre-service teachers to practice what they have learned from university. During 4 weeks of periods, they struggled to learn administrative things from teachers, plan and implement their own lessons, and sometimes counsel students while adapting to unfamiliar environments. Although teach-in-charge helps them to fit in, but still much help is needed. In terms of university, teaching practicum is a period when load of teaching is decreased for professors. Professors are asked to monitor and supervise their intern-teachers, but usually one time visit is enough. Pre-service teachers are quite away from university, giving help is not so easy. In this study, we built an online community on social media, and communicated during the practicum period. Graduate teachers were also invited as their mentor, and gave feedback for pre-service teachers. Pre-service teachers were asked to write some reflective journal as well as questions and requests. After practicum ends, perceptions of pre-service teachers and graduate teachers on this online mentoring on social media, and all the postings and comments were analyzed and categorized. Educational implications will be discussed.
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