How Can I Train Myself to Be an Expert Teacher?A Teaching Practicum Experience

  1. Itziar Iriondo
  2. Itziar Plazaola
  3. Teresa Zulaika
Book:
Teachers’ Perspectives, Practices and Challenges in Multilingual Education: Studies in Honor of Pilar Sagasta
  1. Nagore Ipiña (ed. lit.)
  2. Ainara Imaz (ed. lit.)
  3. Begoña Pedrosa (ed. lit.)
  4. Eneritz Garro (ed. lit.)

Publisher: Peter Lang

ISBN: 978-3-631-81979-1

Year of publication: 2020

Pages: 87-110

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

This chapter presents the results of a research study focusing on a training environment designed to foster the language teaching skills of novice teachers. The study is located within the field of video-based training, which in turn forms part of the research and training approach known as activity analysis. The focus of study is a teaching Practicum. Identifying the process through which novice teachers must go to become expert teachers leads us to explore a highly complex and interlinked series of phenomena. The chapter will highlight the specific characteristics of novice teachers’ activity, the development of their training, one typical activity linked to language teaching and the need for collaboration agreements between schools and universities.