Sticking to What Works: Preservice Teachers' Mindset and Motivation Before and After Student Teaching

• In Event: 18.055 - Supporting Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, and Early-Career Teachers

Abstract

Teachers are potent role models for students. For example, how teachers
demonstrate their own mindset and motivation influences their students’ mindset and
motivation. While the mindset and motivation of in-service teachers have been
investigated thoroughly, the same cannot be said of pre-service teachers. Pre-service
teachers’ mindset and motivation are developed in the context of in-class experiences
and student teaching, which is often viewed as the defining experience of pre-service
teachers’ preparation. This study investigated student teaching’s impact on pre-service
teachers’ mindset and motivations in pre-student teaching (N=68) and post-student
teaching (N=60) samples. Pre-service teachers before student teaching were
significantly more idealistic about theories of intelligence than pre-service teachers
surveyed after student teaching. The reverse was the case for resilience.

Authors

• Eleftherios Kyprianos Soleas, Queen's University

• Ji Yeon Hong, University of Oklahoma