Teaching practicum is a vital and challenging phase of English Language (ELT) teacher education in which student teachers experience their first teaching practices In line with the global pandemic status quo, official regulations that leaded educational activities at state primary schools universities to be carried out online, have also changed modes means experiences in-service pre-service ELT...

Two purposes of this study were to describe selected characteristics of cooperating teachers/ schools and to identify teachers’ perceptions about important elements of student teaching. Some researchers contend that to better understand complex phenomena, a “soft systems” approach (e.g., focus groups) may be more appropriate than quantitative methodologies. So, another purpose was to compare te...

This study aimed at finding an articulation of educational perspectives from Portuguese physical education cooperating teachers at distinctive professional stages, according to teaching and mentoring experience. Two main topics superintend the query, which was intended to answer the objectives of teacher’s education programs and teachers’ role. Data for this study were collected from open-ended...

A trend in agricultural education has been a shortage of graduates from preservice agricultural education programs who choose to enter the teaching profession, thus causing a deficit in the number of qualified teachers to fill vacancies. When examining preservice agricultural education programs, student teaching is often the capstone experience, during which, the student teacher works closely w...