Potential of Community Field Experiences as Hybrid Spaces in Teacher Education

• In Event: 31.092 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Three - Grand Centre
  In Roundtable Session: 31.092-2 - Developing Young Students' and Teachers' Social-Emotional Identities Through Service-Learning in Classrooms and After School

Abstract

This study examines a service-learning project, an after-school literacy program of a course in literacy education for prospective elementary teachers. Mixed methods were used in determining 1) whether preservice teachers would experience gains in teaching efficacy, or confidence, through the service-learning experiences of the course and 2) factors that seem to play a role when service-learning fosters efficacy beliefs. Quantitative results showed significant gains in teaching efficacy, and findings of the qualitative analysis complemented the quantitative results in understanding preservice teachers’ gains in teacher efficacy beliefs.

Authors

• Kathleen Tice, The University of Texas - Arlington

• Larry Paul Nelson, The University of Texas - Arlington