An analysis of school students experience of being taught by trainee teachers: Students voices in te

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An analysis of school students experience of
being taught by trainee teachers Students
voices in teacher training A pilot study

• By Noor Naasirah Abdullah Teo
• Mres Education
• University of Bath
• 2007/2008

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Flow of presentation

• Introduction
• The Contextual Analysis
• Aim and Research Questions
• Methodology
• Data Analysis Discussion
• Conclusion

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• We need quality teachers like no other time in
  history
• Hoban, pp.1

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Government interventions - SBITT

• Many routes (DfES, 2005),
• Training from universities and HEI
• Postgraduate teacher training
• PGCE
• School Centred Initial Teacher Education (SCITT)
• Employment Based Routes (EBR)
• School-based initial teacher training (SBITT)
• Became official in early 1990s
• Trainee teachers spend 2/3 training time in
  schools

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Why this research?

• Trainee teachers spends significant amount of
  time in classroom
• Students learning at stake
• The classroom equilibrium
• The construction of learning experiences
• The continuous nature of experiences

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Why this research?

• The establishment of teacher-students
  relationship
• No chance to observe how teacher-student
  relationships
• not as aware of the importance of forming
• Puzzled about how deep a relationship should be
• (Wragg Woods, 1994)

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Why this research?

• The noviciate of trainee teaches
• interpreting events in the class
• control of the pace of the lesson
• Their easy satisfaction with their performance in
  the lesson.
• Building of episodic knowledge

• being able to experiment with different teaching
  techniques with different strategies to find the
  most appropriate for me
• teaching practice is a process of trial and
  error in other words if it doesnt work, dont
  do it again and find something else
• Furlong et al. (2000, pp.131)

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Related students voice research in SBITT

• Fourth partner to existing triadic partnership
  (Harrison et al, 1990)
• Students as Researchers in Sharnbrook Upper
  School and Community College (Raymond, 2001)

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Related students voice research in SBITT

• The Pupil Mentoring Project (Youens Hall, 2006)
• Teaching and Learning Together (Cook-Sather,
  2002)

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Related students voice research in SBITT

• Literature in ITT and students voice bias
  towards learning of trainee teachers GAP!

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Related students voice research in SBITT

• In the Lions Dens? Pupils and School-Based
  Initial Teacher Training (Brook, 2000)
• Students encounter with unprofessionally suited
  trainee teachers
• Students over-exposure to trainee teachers
• Students not finishing the curriculum content

• There is always an anticipated cost and that
  is the cost to students education our pupils -
  having student teachers taking the lesson.
• Brook (2000, pp.103)

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Aim research questions

• Aim To analyse the experiences of school
  students when they are taught by trainee teachers
• Research Questions
• What are the experiences of school students when
  they are taught by trainee teachers?
• To what extent do the experiences of being taught
  by trainee teachers affect school students
  learning?
• What are the implications for policy and practice
  in initial teacher training of the outcomes of
  the current study?

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Approach to the pilot study

• Exploratory nature
• Avoid premature categorisation
• Little work in this research area
• Qualitative research
• Non-numerical data

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Research design
The pilot study

• Data source and sampling
• Year 10 state school
• Access
• Trainee teachers
• Existing school contact of PGCE lecturer
• Personal contact
• The process of data gathering
• Individual interview
• Writing and Drawing activities
• Focus group discussion

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Research design

• The process of data analysis
• Transcription
• Line-by line coding
• Themes
• tree structure
• Ethical considerations
• University ethical clearance
• CRB
• Informed parental consent
• Participants consent

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Data analysis and discussion
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Concern for GCSE

• Need to strive harder
• Year 10 more stressful with lower years
• Fear of lagging behind

• This is different, cause Year 9, we have exams
  at the end of the year but this year is less of
  the exams but more of, like, course work that
  actually really matters
• There is more expectation on GCSE than in year
  9

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Students experiences of being taught by trainee
teachers

• Connecting with teachers
• How quick?
• Treating students right

• My experience with trainee teachers are that
  some are rubbish because they cant connect to
  you
• a bad one () will be like patronizing and then
  just treat us like too young
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• they can become like patronizing and not like
  treat you to your ability and everything

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Students experiences of being taught by trainee
teachers

• Trainee teachers competencies
• Class control

• that they lack experience and like people
  mucking around and stuff, and you dont get as
  much done
• They expect everyone to take advantage of them
  because they arent a real teacher

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Students experiences of being taught by trainee
teachers

• Trainee teachers competencies
• Pace of lessons
• Teacher attribute and presentation

• its fair enough that they are teaching us but
  then if they dont keep up with the pace, it can
  be really frustrating
• They have been pretty good actually, but because
  they have lack of experience, they can sometime
  be a bit nervous and they dont really have quite
  control over us

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Arrangement for trainee teachers

• Student appreciate if they are prepared earlier
• Split lessons
• Timing of trainee teacher coming to their class
• Test

• I find trainee teachers a bit annoying.
  Sometimes you get them before a test and if their
  not very good at teaching or arent very
  confident, then I think that my grade drop.

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Students plea

• Trainee teachers to
• Observe lessons first
• Mutual understanding

• they need like emm work likework experience
  so they can get a portfolio but its quite hard
  for us because we are in a stage when its quite
  critical, what we learn (year 10) so a bit 50-50

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If students are given the choice

• Students preference for trainee teacher in
  different subjects
• Less frequent
• understanding
• No trainee teacher for GCSE subjects
• No trainee teacher at all

• I wouldnt like to have one like for geography
  or business studies or something but PE, I would
  like to have one (), yeah, I would like to have
  one for like practical, like once you get outside
  you can run around not like inside where you got
  deeper work
• I dont likee Them - !!!

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discussion

• The preparation for GCSE Year 10 students
• Nature of coursework
• Students perception of schooling in Year 10 11
• Trainee teacher interference

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discussion

• Connection with students
• Usual / experienced teachers
• Trainee teachers
• Too strict
• Too soft

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discussion

• Students choice
• The school setting
• Mutual respect

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conclusion

• Why further research?
• Students mixed experiences
• Not much choice
• Policy and practice in SBITT

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Thank you