An Investigation of Challenges and Response Strategies Among Pre-Service Teachers in Extended Teaching Practice at Dongtha, Bualapha, and Sathid Lower Secondary Schools (2021–2022)

Abstract

This research aims at determining the problems faced, solutions done when having long teaching practice and suggestions for future improvement. The research participants were 25 pre-service teachers, 14 women who had long teaching practice in three teaching centers. The research instruments were observation, diary, and semi-structured interview. The data was analyzed by using thematic analysis technique. The findings showed that pre-service teachers faced a lot of problems such as: learner discipline and classroom management, procedures of preparing lesson plan, teaching urgently without lesson plans, teaching additional subjects, insufficient teaching materials, difficulty in working with school teachers, arranging time to do school activities, working with staying families and local authority, and unsystematic way of conducting research. And actions pre-service teachers did to solve the problems were: adjusting timetables for every work, discussing problems and ways to solve them with school teachers and other pre-service teachers, talking to students about their behaviors, creating interesting teaching materials and teaching techniques, and using the materials that exist in schools.