Full Description
This volume analyses how teaching internships that support teacher education programmes are conducted across the globe. Teaching internships are important learning experiences in teacher training programmes - a core experiential component that enables teachers-intraining to acquire skills in practical setups.
The book takes readers through various aspects of teaching internships. Extending its application to both national and international teacher education programmes, to include teacher training in elementary, primary, secondary and higher secondary schools, the volume discusses various existing teaching internship models, important guidelines and best practices, assessment practices, typical challenges as well as future opportunities for effective teaching internships. It also shares expertise, insights and know-how from scholars around the world on planning and executing excellent internships for these programmes.
Drawn from expert research, this book will be of interest to students, teachers and researchers of education, teacher education, sociology of education, and politics of education. It will also be useful for teacher trainees, academicians, teacher educators, policymakers, school teachers, curriculum developers, teacher training institutes and universities offering teacher education programmes.
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Introduction to Teaching Internship: An Analytical Approach
G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth
PART I
Teaching Internship Types Across the World
2 Teaching Internship in India
G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth
3 Teaching Internship in Sri Lanka
Manjula Vithanapathirana
4 Teaching Internship in South Africa
Anilkumar Krishnannair and Syamala Krishnannair
5 Teaching Internship in Japan
Mamoru Kikuchihara, Hayao Nomura, and Teiko Koide
6 Teacher Training Internship Practices at the University of Teacher Education in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland: A Case Study
Méliné Zinguinian, Jean-Luc Gilles, Samyr Chajai, Lara Laflotte and Yves Zbaeren
7 Building Global Teaching Competency Based on Australian and Indian Preservice Teachers' Paired Practicum
Rohan Nethsinghe, Premnadh M. Kurup, and Jose Cherian
8 Organization of Teacher Internship at School in Russia
Oksana Gordienko, Maria Lapina and Anastasia Sokolova
9 Teaching Internship in Canada: Rethinking Standards While Reflecting on the Impact of COVID-19 on K-12 Education
Lisa Gedak, Susan Crichton, and Elizabeth Childs
10 Teaching Internship in the United States
Candace A. Mulcahy, Andrea N. Decker, and Matthew L. McConn
PART II
Teaching Internship: Trends and Practicing Guidelines
11 Research Insights on Teacher Education
G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth
12 Assessments in Teaching Internship
G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth
13 Sample Templates for Organizing Teaching Internship
G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth
14 Guidelines to Carry out Teaching Internship
G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth
15 Teaching Internship - The Way Forward
G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth
Index
