Student Teachers' Concerns and Stress Experiences in the School-University Partnership "School Adoption"

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 26
  In Roundtable Session: School Structures and Preservice Teachers' Experiences

Abstract

The model ‘School Adoption’ has been developed in teacher training in Norway and in the meantime is being carried out in several European countries as an internship concept. During the so-called “adoption week,” student teachers teach all lessons at a school, while the teachers engage in further education. Faculty staff members from the university work intensively together with student teachers and teachers. The overall goal is to develop a form of cooperation that can support the professionalization of the student teachers as well as the development of the participating school. This paper reports on the concept of the model and on results concerning student teachers’ concerns and stress experiences with the school adoption at the German University of Flensburg.

Authors

• Andreas Bach, University of Salzburg

• Horst Biedermann, Saint Gallen University of Teacher Education