Preservice music teachers’ self-efficacy and concerns before and during student teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 025576142199078
Author(s):  
Bradley J Regier
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Developmental Process ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Teaching Experiences ◽  
Student Impact

The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences and contextual factors that influenced preservice music teachers’ self-efficacy and concerns from pre-student teaching to student teaching. Data were collected for this case study through an open-response questionnaire about participants’ ( N = 4) efficacious teaching experiences, 10 weekly e-journal reflections written during pre-student teaching ( n = 5 weeks) and student teaching placements ( n = 5 weeks at 1 placement), interviews ( n = 4), and my own researcher journal ( n = 31 entries). Preservice teachers’ self-efficacy and concerns were most impacted by teaching experiences in familiar settings. Results indicated that participants made more comments about student-impact and self-survival concerns during student teaching than pre-student teaching. Further investigation revealed that participants consistently expressed concerns for classroom management during pre-student teaching and student teaching placements. Finding ways to expedite the developmental process could reduce the amount of time that preservice teachers focus on early contextual factors and instead identify ways to improve students’ music and academic performance.

scholarly journals Using Focus Groups to Explore Sources of Self-Efficacy in Puerto Rican Preservice Teachers

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yitza A. Arcelay-Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
University Supervisors ◽  
Qualitative Design ◽  
Teaching Practicum ◽  
Teachers Perceptions

This article used focus groups to explore Puerto Rican preservice teachers' perceptions of sources of self-efficacy. The present study allowed, through a qualitative design, examination of the experiences of preservice teachers at the end of their student teaching practicum. The qualitative design and the use of the focus group technique provided insight into the main sources of their perceived self-efficacy through the self-assessment of their field experience. The beginning of the student teaching practicum provoked an intense process of emotions in which the preservice teachers needed support and guidance, particularly in aspects of planning, differentiation, and classroom management. The participants agreed that substantial feedback and guidance from cooperating teachers and university supervisors helped them being confident and increased their perceived self-efficacy by reducing the feelings of anxiety generated by the practicum.

A Longitudinal Perspective of Early Career Music Teachers: Contexts, Interactions, and Possible Selves

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Dabback
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Music Teachers ◽  
Possible Selves ◽  
Music Educators ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Possible Selves Theory

The purpose of this multiple case study was to follow the development of three music educators during their student teaching semesters and into the first years of their careers. Possible selves theory provided a framework for exploring the links between cognition, expectations, and motivation. Interviewees negotiated their social and physical contexts, which in turn shaped their self-images and conceptions of teaching and learning. Identities were constructed through personal experiences and formal study with significant others, including influential teachers, cooperating teachers, and colleagues. In these respects, classrooms served as the laboratories in which teachers learned how to build crucial relationships with their students, tested and reshaped emerging identities, and based actions and evaluation on their possible selves.

scholarly journals Using avatars to address teacher self-efficacy

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-35
Author(s):  
Chancey Bosch ◽  
Trevor Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Teacher Self Efficacy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Enhanced Learning

Technology-enhanced learning continues to provide opportunities for increased interventions in educational programing. For teacher education programs, novelty pales in comparison to providing meaningful instruction and enduring outcomes. The use of avatars has provided integration of research evidence that increases intended behaviors; however, research is lacking on teacher self-efficacy change via an avatar experience. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between teacher self-efficacy and avatar use in a teacher education program. A relational study using both parametric and non-parametric designs for four different samples indicated a significant relationship between avatar intervention and teacher self-efficacy in classroom management, instructional strategies, and student engagement. The sample from a student teaching course, which had a limited number of participants, provided mixed results. More studies need to include experimental designs and isolation of variabilities in the avatar model.

scholarly journals From Preservice to Practice: Expectations of/in the Secondary ELA Classroom

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 35
Author(s):  
Tiffany Karalis Noel ◽  
Melanie Shoffner
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
First Year ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Disruptive Students ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Building Rapport

The paper explores how preservice ELA teachers’ expectations of teaching compare to the reality of their experiences during the first year of teaching. The authors consider common concerns of beginning ELA teachers and their implications for teacher self-efficacy. The paper is informed by narrative research, which provides practical and specific insights into the lived experiences of participants. The first data set consists of reflective writings on a self-identified topic connected to ELA teaching and/or learning throughout the semester. Two, one-hour individual interviews conducted during the first year of teaching form the second data set. The paper provides empirical insights about how preservice experiences inform ELA teachers’ expectations of first-year teaching and their development of self-efficacy. Their two major concerns – classroom management and building rapport – identified their fears and insecurities about managing disruptive students and establishing connections with students. These struggles offer a connection between expectations, experiences and self-efficacy. Likewise, they point to the need for teacher education to address preservice teachers’ self-efficacy as a way to support their successful entry into the classroom. The paper includes implications for the development of increased opportunities to study and experience critical concerns of the profession. Such learning experiences offer preservice teachers meaningful opportunities to engage with experiential learning, applied practice and critical reflection before their first year in the field. The paper fulfills an identified need to study how differences between expectation and reality can be difficult for beginning ELA teachers to reconcile, a disconnect that lends itself to considerations of teachers’ self-efficacy.

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