Theories of professional knowledge and reflective practice were used to develop a new postgraduate program. Central to the curriculum design was the acknowledgment that a wealth of knowledge creation takes place outside the academic setting. The existing experience of practitioners is an important source of knowledge and the ability to reflect…

Examined the value of an instructional talk analysis tool (ITAT) in developing teachers' awareness of their instructional talk. Fifteen students from a reading practicum course participated in either ITAT plus debriefing, ITAT only, or alternative tool only. Discourse analyses and written reflections indicated that ITAT plus debriefing teachers…

This introduction discusses how creative programmatic activities can be designed to address the needs of preservice and inservice educators. It describes a practicum that provided preservice students in early childhood special education opportunities to apply consultation skills to teachers working with children with disabilities and an inservice…

This article describes an innovative practicum that provided preservice graduate students in early childhood special education opportunities to apply consultation skills and practices to teachers working with young children with disabilities. Generally, childcare providers rated the consultation skills of the students participating in the…

Graduate counselling students in the first semester of practicum are challenged to learn the basic active listening sequence while simultaneously learning to engage in the supervision process. Students struggle with confusion and self-doubt as they attempt to develop self-efficacy as a professional counsellor. Adult learning theory and…

This study investigates how Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) can be effectively used in a teaching practicum course to enhance preservice teachers' learning. We constructed a web-based CMC system and used it in a Teaching Practicum course. Computer science preservice teachers and experienced secondary school computer teachers, who served as…

This paper engages with poststructural ideas for a discussion on what it means to engage in pedagogical work in the context of elementary/primary school mathematics classrooms. Central to the analysis are the pre-service student and the part that the teaching practicum plays in the "making" of a teacher. Drawing on insights from the work of…

Despite its wide use, group supervision remains a poorly understood component of counselor training programs. Using qualitative methods, this preliminary study attempted to add to the group supervision literature and develop hypotheses for further study. Four counselors in training enrolled in a practicum participated in the study. Participants…

This qualitative study explored the experiences of nine current or former university students with disabilities on their transition into the labour force. Results indicated that participants encountered significant obstacles to employment, such as: (a) attitudinal and physical/sensory barriers in the workplace, (b) limited access to public…

While many factors are taken into account when identifying appropriate practicum placements, effective technology use by the classroom teacher is rarely considered. This is disconcerting given the recent emphasis on teacher technology preparation. The research described in this article studies 30 preservice teachers' participation in a six-week…

This study investigated the impact of a project-based graduate practicum experience that was facilitated online. The study investigated the effects of the online practicum experience by: (a) using quantitative data to assess the learning and professional growth of the practicum participants in comparison to a group of teachers that did not…

Professional development school (PDS) contexts are increasingly being viewed as powerful sites for the preparation of future teachers in the USA. One of their documented strengths is in the fostering of preservice teachers' inquiry within collaborative frameworks that result from the partnerships between university teacher education programmes and…

This paper examines the educational and epistemological implications for early childhood practitioners who work in non-Western environments. Predominantly, early childhood knowledge is strongly driven by the metanarrative of child development, which can prove problematic for practitioners working in non-Western settings. Practitioners who draw…

This author recognized that she needed to revisit her preservice teachers' practicum experience to reassess her goals, ideas, and priorities regarding how to provide a quality teaching and learning experience of her preservice teachers. As the author reflected on the practicum experience, she identified the missing link--reciprocity. The practicum…

The Teaching/Learning Center (T/LC) at the Jacksonville State University College of Education (Alabama) is Level 2 in a 5-level teacher education program that is intended to build student competency through reflection and revision of the student's teaching practices. T/LC is a practicum laboratory for preservice teachers and an on-campus,…