Abstract
This study aimed to examine the relationships between the beliefs about how to learn or acquire teaching skills (beliefs about learning of teaching) and beliefs about effective teaching of teaching students. In total, 151 undergraduate students taking a professional teaching course participated. They answered two kinds of questionnaires: beliefs about learning of teaching and about effective teaching. Results showed three significant positive correlations between the necessity of learning teaching methods at university and active student participation during class, between how to learn teaching and active student participation during class, and between necessity of learning teaching methods at university and teachers’ competence in teaching and learning. The findings suggest that students who believe it was necessary to learn how to teach at university also believed in the importance of active student participation during class. The study also suggests that some students made much of learning teaching at university and acquiring competence in teaching and learning for effective teaching.
