Early Childhood Education Preservice Teachers' Clinical Practice Experience in Online Remote Learning Environment

• In Event: Current Advances in Learning Environments Research

Abstract

School closings and transition to online remote education in pre-k to 12 grade schools that the teacher education programs partner with created a necessity to be innovative in supervising clinical practice students. The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of early childhood preservice teachers during remote clinical practice and remote supervision. Moore’s “Transactional Distance Theory” for online learning was adopted as a theoretical framework. The results demonstrated that the student teachers gradually gained autonomy with the support provided by their cooperating teacher and the supervisor. The structure of the online environment limited the dialogue between the student teacher and the supervisor, the student teacher and the learners in the CP classrooms.

Author

• Jale Aldemir, Coppin State University
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