Student Teaching Practice: A Theoretical Study And Reflection On The Practice In The UK

As the teaching is a highly complex, situational and practical activities, therefore, even the best teacher education theoretical curriculum is also no substitute for real teaching situations. As a result, teacher education institutions in addition to arrange education professional subjects, and also arrange for the student teaching practice in this learning process. The purpose is to enable prospective teachers to understand the complexity of teaching in teaching practice, to be able to integrate theoretical knowledge of the teaching profession, to exercise professional comprehensive ability to judge, to develop basic teaching skills, and to realize roles and responsibilities of teachers, thus shorten the entry adaptation period, and to lay the foundation for future professional development. Therefore, the student teaching practice has not only become "no room for controversy" the necessary elements in the pre-service teacher education, and has an important role like "finishing touch". Even so, in practice, due to the presence of a range of problems, student teaching practice is hard to achieve the desired effect, a mere formality phenomena often occur. For this reason, it results in graduates for lack of practical teaching experience, recruitment difficulties, and for extending adaptation period of the entry and even serious problems. This phenomenon arouses reflections of teacher education researchers in various countries. It is recognized that the professionalism of the teaching profession should eventually be reflected in their professional practice, so since the 1980s, around the world, there has been a turning about the foundation of teacher education from the previous "theory" to concerning "practice".As aging long-standing abuse of the student teaching practice, as well as the challenges faced by the field of teacher education, China's reform of student teaching practice is on imperative. This requires us to be related to the nature, characteristic, value and theoretical basis of such basic questions of student teaching practice to conduct in-depth research and further theoretical argument, but in practice, it will inevitably need to learn from existing experiences and lessons owned by other countries. In the institutionalization of the development process of student teaching practice, the UK is the country which is earlier for implementing student teaching practice in the world. Not only its changing process of internship concept and practice patterns has typical meaning, but also its idea and curriculum design, system planning, and so the experience it has accumulated and the achieved good results of student teaching practice in the UK can provide better reference for China's reform.To this end, based on researching needs, the author starts the study on student teaching practice from the theoretical and practical dimensions in this dissertation.The dissertation consists of the introduction part and six chapters.The introduction part introduces the significance, the core issues, the content, the clues and methods of the study, and makes literature review and defines some related terms or concepts.The first chapter mainly discusses the basic theoretical issues such as the nature, characteristics, significance and function of student teaching practice.The second chapter is to make an explanation on the knowledge developing, learning process and professional socialization process of student teachers based on the exploration to teacher knowledge theory, constructivism theory and teacher professional socialization theory.The third chapter is to explore student teaching practice in the UK historically, reveal and analyze its internship concept and practice mode evolution process.The forth chapter mainly examines the current development of student teaching practice in the UK comprehensively and systematically, and taking Oxford University Student Teaching Program as an example to analyze its concept and implementation modalities.The fifth chapter is to interpret and reflect on the history and current development of British student teaching practice, including investigating and reflecting on its development dynamics, interpreting its own characteristics, examining its effect, and exploring its existing problems and shortcomings.The sixth chapter is mainly to make a critical thinking about student teaching practice, and based on the analysis of the limitation of student teaching practice, the author also points out some recommendations for the future development and reform of student teaching practice...