Student Teachers’ Perspective on Multicultural Challenges in the Classroom and the Support They Feel From Their Colleagues in the School (Poster 12)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Saturday 3:20 p.m.
  In Poster Session: Learning Environments in Classrooms and School Contexts

Abstract

The increased diversity of student populations in school contexts leads to challenges student teachers experience in their classroom management. Therefore, teacher educational institutes need to think about the consequences this have for the teacher training curriculum. This study is focused on an investigation of both student teachers’ challenges concerning this topic, and the support they experience at the workplace. The preliminary results show that student teachers struggle with their CM in multicultural classroom. Most of them are working in vocational education and feel less prepared by teacher education. However, most student teachers feel supported by colleagues at the internship school. Moreover, this support was drawn to (informal) conversations with colleagues, and lesson observations.

Authors

• Tom Adams, KW1C

• Sabrina Leigh Caldwell, University of South Alabama

• Kennedy Aquilino Tielman, Fontys University of Applied Sciences

• Diana Turk, New York University