The Roller Coaster Life in Teaching: The Case of Pre-service Teachers in a State University

Abstract

Teachers are honed for many years to be able to teach comprehensively to diverse learners. Before achieving college diplomas, they still have to undergo practice teaching to enhance and employ content and pedagogical approaches they learned from their previous college years. This study's framework was based clearly on Jean's Piaget Formal Operational Stage and Albert Banduras' Social Cognitive Development Theory. Learners develop their critical thinking during a formal stage, promoting constructive behavior that affects an individual's success. Ten (10) elementary preservice teachers of a laboratory school were selected through the purposive sampling technique. The researcher gathered the data appropriately using in-depth semi-structured interviews, and responses were recorded and documented with confidentiality. This study's findings are the pre-service teachers' preparation stage of teaching, tangible teaching exposure, utilization of pedagogical methods and approaches, people’s unamenable behavior, vigorous school demands, financial shortage, implementation of diverse teaching strategies, possess adequate personality and seek out spiritual guidance. Results suggest that school administrators and faculty educators must provide all education students with resilient and concrete experiences. Lesson planning, various teaching strategies, and classroom management must introduce as early as possible once they step into the education portal during their first year in college before undergoing the practice teaching stage.