Pre-service teachers' appreciations of teacher-educators' strategies when learning about narratives

Identifier:  imarina:9194081

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/imarina9194081

Authors:  Castaneda-Pena, Harold; Ines Calderon, Dora; Borja, Miriam; Patricia Quitian, Sandra; Yamile Suarez, Adriana

Abstract:
This paper focuses on teacher-educators' didactic strategies as noticed and valued by their students or pre-service teachers who will be teachers in the future. Little has been explored in teacher education relating to the interphase narrative content and teachers' didactic strategies. Two didactic learning environments about narrative content were implemented correspondingly within two courses, and they were assessed by 45 participating pre-service teachers using assessment questionnaires. The population sample came from six teacher education programs at the undergraduate level. Based on the assessment made by the pre-service teachers in the two courses, an analysis of differences between the evaluated items using the chi-square test was performed. Results indicate that there are significant correlations between Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) Programs and didactic strategies, the pre-service teachers' semester and such strategies and between strategies themselves. Thus, it appears important to clearly reify the didactic design components, such as the didactic strategies, as contributors to the didactic design with differentiated didactic functions and roles in learning processes. Additionally, findings tend to reflect that the didactic strategy is on its own a didactic answer to the pedagogical challenges teacher-educators identified to teach narrative content. Finally, it seems paramount to revisit and to ascertain the conceptualization of didactic strategies within the field of didactics.