BELIEF’S ABOUT

TEACHING
Beliefs about Teaching
✘Everyone is capable of
learning.
✘Effective teaching is
purposeful, challenging and
connected to student’s
experience, stage of
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Beliefs about Teaching
Teacher’s build beliefs according
to three factors:
1. According to students,
considering the group’s
characteristics and their
context
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 Beliefs about Teaching
2.According to fundamental
factors, they must teach the
content and discipline to which
they are belong.
3. According to their previous
experience as a students.
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Beliefs about Teaching
1. Teaching is a rewarding and
fulfilling career.
2. Teacher education courses
do little to prepare teachers
for the little classroom.

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Teaching is a rewarding
and fulfilling career.
Choosing a career is a complex
and long-term process. College
students switch majors many
times before they finally chose a
field.
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 Teaching is a rewarding and
fulfilling career.
Teaching, is however, a disillusioning
career for many people. They may
enjoy some aspect of classroom life but
they become dissatisfied with
education in general, citing low
prestige, low pay, and petty problems
associated with classroom teaching as
important factors in their decision to
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Teacher education courses do
little to prepare teachers for the
little classroom.
Teachers, particularly new
teachers, seem to believe that
some things simply cannot be
taught by college professors.

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The entering beliefs of teacher
candidates have been
characterized as highly
idealistic, loosely
formulated, deeply seated,
and traditional.
Teacher candidates’ beliefs
about diversity may be viewed
as simplistic, they hold
strong images of teaching,
both positive and negative.
✘These beliefs influence how they
approach their teacher education
program. Perhaps because of the
strength of their images of good
and bad teaching, these students
express confidence in their
knowledge of teaching and in
their own abilities to teach.