The Anxiety in Student Teacher During Training in Teaching Practice

Abstract

Teaching practice is one of the important components in the program of study: Elementary Teacher Education at the Faculty
of Education, University: “Xhuvani, A.”, Elbasan, Albania. The student teaching experience in teaching practice is a culmination of years
of preparation. The goal of the teaching practice is to help student teacher to advance their professional knowledge. Professional training
in teaching practice is planned through the continuous structured phases. Practice teaching is filled with difficulties, dilemmas and
challenges. For many students teaching experiences are very hard to provoking anxiety in them. The purpose of this study was to
determine how the training affected the level of anxiety in students, during the stages of training as a teacher in teaching practice.
Experienced students the same level of anxiety during the phases of training as a teacher in teaching practice? TCHA (Parson, 1973)
was the scale used to measure teaching anxiety. Measurements were made in the two phases of development of teaching practice. This
study found that anxiety in the student teachers changed during training. Training had positive impact to the reduction of anxiety in the
student teachers.