2003 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 49-59
The purpose of this paper is to propose, promote, and support the unique new type of teacher education. The author calls this "Clinical Education of Teachers". Eleven (11) classroom works are described in this paper, in which the teachers talked about his/her experiences, obtained the comprehension of the students in the classroom, and succeeded in generalizing such experiences among the students. In these examples, the author prepared and proposed special tools and system, monitored their functions, and shared the results with the teachers. The author explicitly explains the tools and common concept involved in 11 examples and states the necessary conditions for the system consisting of several tools for the education of teachers. These conditions are essential in realizing the clinical education of teachers using such tools and system. As stated above, the teachers, as researchers themselves, succeeded in generalizing his/her experiences among the students in the classroom. The author finds that the tools and system described in this paper are effective in the clinical education of teachers.
