중학교 방과후학교 운영과 사범대 전공수업 연계를 통한 교육실습 강화 방안 탐색: 영어 교과를 중심으로

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This paper explored a possibility of enhancing teaching practicum in a teacher’s college bymaking pre-service teachers develop and operate an after-school program in a middle school andtake a follow-up university course. Ten secondary level pre-service English teachers, along witheight pre-service Mathematics and Korean teachers, participated in an after-school teachingpracticum which was held in a middle school for three weeks during a winter break. Their dutiesranged from curriculum development and class teaching to student guidance to schooladministration for 43 middle school students, with advice and support from seven middle schoolteachers and three professors. In the following semester, they took a seminar course offered inthe department of English Education, where they reviewed, analyzed, and improved thecurriculum and lessons they had used for the after-school program. In order to explore thefeasibility and sustainability of the new teaching practicum program, middle school students’and pre-service teachers’ perceptions of the program were examined via evaluationquestionnaires and pre-service English teachers’ teaching portfolios, essays, and term papers. Based on the results, this study discusses the possibility of and suggestions for usingafter-school programs of secondary level schools as a practicum site in conjunction with auniversity course to extend teaching practicum for pre-service teachers.

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