Abstract

The purpose of this study is to reveal the meaning of the teaching practice experience inundergraduate students majoring in counseling. The researcher conducted in-depth interviewswith six undergraduate students majoring in counseling who participated in teaching practice inBusan and Gyeongnam from July 19, 2022, to August 31, 2022, and analyzed the collected datausing Giorgi(1985)'s phenomenological research method. As a result of the analysis, 7components and 18 sub-components were derived. Seven main components are ‘experiencingexcitement, anticipation, tension, and anxiety ahead of the practice’, ‘preparing and workinghard for the practice’, ‘experiencing dissatisfaction with the content of teaching practice’, ‘gettingto know students' negative perceptions of counseling’, ‘becoming more accepting of students’,‘strengthening of career identity’. Based on the results of this study, the researcher madesuggestions for follow-up research and implications to consider in relation to the teachingpractice of professional school counselors.

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