STNet: A Network-Supported Environment for Student Teachers
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Date
1999-02-28
Authors
Chiou, Guey-Fa
Ho, Rong-Guey
Wu, Cheng-Chih
Lee, Greg C.
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The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)
Abstract
Adopting the rationale of reflective thinking as the underlying philosophy, we developed the Student Teacher Network (STNet) to support student teaching. STNet provides an online place where university supervisors, experienced school teachers, student teachers, and students in the preservice program can discuss teaching issues and browse resources asynchronously. The first year experience indicated that we need a more comprehensive rationale to guide the design and the implementation of the STNet, a resourcerich environment to support student teachers, an effective university-school partnership to sustain the STNet, and reconsideration of the whole teacher education program in order to infuse information technology into teacher education program. Building a systemic and distributed teacher education network is one of the feasible alternatives.