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- Title
Identifying Concerns of Preservice and In-service Teachers in Agricultural Education.
- Authors
Stair, Kristin S.; Warner, Wendy J.; Moore, Gary E.
- Abstract
Teacher educators have the task of identifying skills most needed by pre-service teachers and in-service teachers. The purpose of this study was to describe teacher concerns over different stages of teacher development. A three-part instrument consisting of a teacher concerns statement, a Likert-type scale of concerns and demographic data was given to three groups. The groups consisted of early career teacher education students (N = 40), advanced teacher education students (N = 15), and teachers who had completed their first year of teaching and were just beginning their second year (N = 22). The results of this study indicate concern levels do change over time and there is a distinct shift in both the level and type of concerns across these three groups. This shift may allow for agricultural education courses and in-service programming to be more uniquely designed to address the specific needs and concerns of our educational clientele.
- Subjects
AGRICULTURAL education research; TEACHER education; CURRICULUM; AGRICULTURE teachers; MOTIVATION (Psychology); STUDENT teachers
- Publication
Journal of Agricultural Education, 2012, Vol 53, Issue 2, p153
- ISSN
1042-0541
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5032/jae.2012.02153