Creating Pre-Service Teachers’ Engagement in an Active Learning Journey With Project-Based Learning to Become Effective Teachers

Abstract

A primary goal of teacher preparation programs is to develop pre-service teachers' ability in applying the teaching knowledge and skills they learn in real classrooms in varying community, school, and classroom contexts. Upon developing these abilities, pre-service teachers can help their students successfully acquire knowledge. The present study aims to investigate the extent to which project-based instruction can enhance the ability to develop teaching materials among pre-service Social Studies teachers currently studying at an open-admission university in Thailand. The same subjective test was administered to a sample of 30 participants before and after the study and was scored using an analytic rubric. The pre-test and post-test data were analyzed via a paired sample t-test, which revealed that participation in project-based instruction resulted in the pre-service Social Studies teachers' improved ability to develop teaching materials, both overall and for each specific criterion, at a statistical significance level of .01.

Applying Active Learning Strategies to Develop the Professional Teaching Competency of Chinese College Student Teachers in the Context of Geography Education

“…More specifically, all three dimensions of the professional teaching competence, including professional knowledge, designing teaching competence, and implementing teaching competence, had progressed after the intervention. This result corresponds to that of previous research that active learning was beneficial for student teachers as it helped them to understand and develop their professional knowledge (Niiranen et al, 2020;Demirci & Akcaalan, 2020;Ishii, 2017) and improve their teaching competence (Togimin & Jaafar, 2020;Niemi et al, 2016), e.g., developing their teaching materials (Laksana et al, 2019) and implementing and practicing the theories they have learned (Namli AltKaraaslan, 2019).…”