Student Teachers Challenges During Their Teaching Practice And Their Solution

This research project is aimed at finding the challenges student teachers encountered during their teaching practice and the possible solutions. This is largely due to the strategic importance, concept significance of teaching practice in teacher education programme. This study was conducted in Enugu State College of Education (Technical) Enugu. The design used in for the study is simple survey while the sampling technique is simple random technique. The researchers used questionnaire to obtained the information relevant to the study the questionnaire has two section viz section A: deals with the student teachers personal information while section B show the exposure of the challenges. The questionnaire of course was administered to two hundred and sixty respondents which constitute our sample but one hundred and ninety eight questionnaires were returned after completion. The result of the data analysis indicated that seventeen challenges had been found facing student teachers during teaching practice. They are finance, transportation to school of teaching practice, lack of incentive communication barrier, misuse of teaching aids, difficulty in preparing lesson note, indiscipline and rude behavior of student teachers, overcrowded class, unfriendliness of principal inadequate provision of writing material, extra workload given to student teachers, lack of infrastructure, emotional feelings of the supervisor, extortion of money from student teachers, in scheduled visit and finally time. However there are also recommendation given by the researchers.