Pre-service Teachers' Perceptions on the Coteaching Lesson

Pre-service teachers should have many opportunities of reflection and evaluation on their teaching practices. This research provides discussions on the results of pre-service teachers' teaching demonstrations and their reflections on the teaching in the lecture of "teaching methods and study on teaching materials" at a college of education. Pre-service teachers were grouped in pair or in 4-5, and demonstrated the coteaching instruction, in which pre-service teachers planed, practiced, and reflected their lesson altogether. Other pre-service teachers watched the others' teaching demonstrations, and wrote comments on it. After all the pre-service teachers demonstrated their lessons, they reported their perceptions on the coteaching instruction including merits and shortcomings of coteaching. Pre-service teachers discussed on the coteaching focused more on the merits of coteaching (e.g., "many hands make the work easy") rather than on the shortcomings of coteaching (e.g., "too many cooks spoil the broth").