A Development of Teacher Profession Internship System for Pre-service Teacher in Double Major Bachelor of Education Program

Authors

  • Suppawan Satjapiboon Faculty of Education, Srinakharinwirot University

Keywords:

Teacher Internship, Hybridity theory, Work-integrated learning, Double Major Program

Abstract

This research synthesis the teacher profession internship system for pre-service teachers in the 4-year double major program from good practices including components study, prototyping and efficiency assessment in order to propose a guideline for further development and implementation. Research data was collected from 3 sample groups consisting of 16 informants of qualitative data, 135 informants of quantitative data and focus group with 8 experts. Research instruments comprised of interview form, need assessment questionnaire, suitability assessment form and focus group discussion. Qualitative and quantitative data was then analyzed by content analysis and statistics, respectively. The major findings of this research were 1) Main components of teacher profession internship system from good practices consisting of Goal, Principles, Process, Assessment, Supervision, Partner School and Support System; 2) The mean of overall need assessment of teacher profession internship was .038. In all aspects, the PNI modified values ranged from .023 to .049. The top 3 areas with the highest values were (i) Curriculum and course management at .049 (ii) Other duties as student teacher at .048 (iii) Teacher profession internship process at .043; 3) Teacher profession internship system of the 4-year double major program comprises of 6 components including: Goal, Principle, Input, Process, Output and Supporting System; 4) Efficient Assessment result of the system for teacher profession internship was at the highest level, with average score of 4.90; 5) Guidelines for implementation consisted of (i) All process school partnership (ii) Hybridity Curriculum Design (iii) Professional Work-Integrated Learning (iv) Process-practice assessment (v) Cooperative Supervision Culture (vi) Belonging and (vii) Proactive Support System.

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2023-09-27

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Suppawan Satjapiboon. (2023). A Development of Teacher Profession Internship System for Pre-service Teacher in Double Major Bachelor of Education Program. ASEAN Journal of Education, 8(2), 23–36. Retrieved from https://so01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/AJE/article/view/269843

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