It is pretty common listening to your classmates about their preferences when teaching: some of them prefer to teach children and some of them prefer teenagers.
Related to this issue, two main questions arise:
1-) Was your preference taken into account when you were assigned to a certain grade at school?
2-) Has your perception of teaching, learning and age-affinity changed during this short period at school?
When referring to the school the intern has been assigned to, how do you believe this decision was taken? What factors may interfere?
Having in mind that slightly more than half of the population (54.17%) surveyed* claimed not to have reconsidered their professional future, based on a happening during their practicum experience so far, the question that could be asked here is:
What is the common trend that makes almost than half of the sample population rethink if education is the path they want to follow?
*Students that participated in a survey that gave shape to the Statement of the Problem of the dissertation this blog belongs to.
This point to discuss has two core questions:
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1-) Do you feel that pre-service teachers (or student-teachers) are properly prepared for facing the challenge of being in charge of a classroom?
2-)What do you believe about one out of seven students* that expresses not to agree to feel properly prepared for being in a classroom?
*Students that participated in a survey that gave shape to the Statement of the Problem of the dissertation this blog belongs to.