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Practicum/School Experience/Fieldwork

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Fieldwork, Practicum, Science teacher education

Practicum and Teacher Education

Practicum experiences are widely recognized by prospective teachers and teacher educators as one of the most valued and integral elements of any teacher education program. Regardless of context, this perspective is ever-present and central to learning to teach science (Russell and Martin 2007). It is during the practicum when many teacher candidates self-assess their own suitability for teaching and their place in the profession. Practicum can be considered an all encompassing term used to describe field and clinical experiences in schools. Typically these practicum experiences are organized by a teacher education institution and involve a stand-alone field experience course or are an academic requirement for a science methods course.

Depending on the program, these school-based field experiences can occur throughout a program of study, and traditionally a science teacher education program...

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  1. Department of Teacher Education, Faculty of Education, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

    Xavier Fazio & Louis Volante

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  1. Xavier Fazio
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Correspondence to Xavier Fazio .

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  1. Monash University Fac. Education, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

    Richard Gunstone

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Fazio, X., Volante, L. (2014). Practicum/School Experience/Fieldwork. In: Gunstone, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Science Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6165-0_401-3

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