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Teacher education programme around the world is divided into two parts, learning the theories, and then practising them before stepping into the real world of teaching. Practising teaching or better known as teaching practicum during the final year of the teacher education programme completes the pre-service teachers’ eligibility to be a teacher, from a pre-service teacher. Therefore, teaching practicum is a crucial part of the teacher education programme. As the Covid-19 pandemic strikes the world, it impacted the world in many ways including disrupting teacher education as teaching practicum cannot be carried out as usual due to educational institutions such as universities and schools’ closure. New dimensions of teaching practicum emerge to cope with the pandemic, different dimensions of challenges and opportunities of teaching practicum emerge too with that. This paper reviews the challenges and opportunities of teaching practicum of pre-service teachers during the Covid-19 pandemic era. The paper then reveals some implications for the teacher education programme with regards to teaching practicum.
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In-Text Citation: (Kadir & Aziz, 2021)
To Cite this Article: Kadir, F. A., & Aziz, A. A. (2021). Teaching Practicum during Covid-19 Pandemic: A Review of the Challenges and Opportunities of Pre-service Teachers. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 11(4), 1175–1183.
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