A Study of Curriculum Designs for Freshmen Preservice Teachers to Cultivate the Lesson Observation Skills

Abstract

The research aims at considering the better curriculum designs to cultivate lesson observation skills for freshmen preservice teachers. Three-year-data from the guidance and five-day practice teaching at Shimane University shows that curriculum re-designs about using videos encourage student teachers to gain the perspective of a sequence of the lessons. But it is difficult for them to record the lessons and communicate with others by technical terms even if they learn them. The data also suggests that the more preservice teachers focus on teachers and teaching, the less they focus on the students.