Shaping Pre Service Teacher’s Mental Model through Constructing Teaching Preparation and Practicing Performance

Abstract

Since this research aims to search on how the students’ mental model are shaped before joining the real teaching practice field through constructing teaching tool preparation and doing teaching practice performance, so this research uses the result of lecturers’ evaluation from both of them. The result of lecturers’ evaluation is the main instrument that is analyzed as documentation. Moreover, the methods used in this research are quantitative and qualitative. The subject of this research is from Faculty of Pedagogy and psychology, PGRI Wiranegara University. The total numbers of students are 113 from 5 Education study programs in seventh semester. Based on the result analysis found that quantitatively and qualitatively the seventh semester students are success and ready to join the real teaching field. It can be seen from the result of analysis in constructing teaching tool preparation stated very bright in civic 95% and 5% very good, (economic) very bright 71% and 20% students are bright, and the rest are very good and almost good and very good, (English) very bright 51% and 49% are bright, (Indonesian) very bright 64% and 36% students are bright, (mathematics) very bright 92% and the rest is bright. It can be deduced that the process of shaping students’ mental model are successful and students are ready to join the real teaching field in school.

Keywords

• Perspective, Teacher’s adaptation, Mental Model