Pre-service teacher efficacy and concerns, individually and collectively, significantly influenced learner-centered beliefs. These findings indicate teacher education can facilitate the development of centered beliefs by addressing these trainable characteristics and demonstrate the need to further explore both teacher efficacy and concerns as they relate to learner-centered education within teacher education programs. the Following Dunn’s recommendation, study of teacher efficacy appears to be needed to understand better the success of experiential education in FCS Education. The Demand for FCS Educators In the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, an article about the need for FCS teachers lists all the states having a shortage of teachers. Only five states were found to have sufficient pools for applicants. Twenty six states found they had a shortage or future shortage of qualified FCS teachers . Idaho alone needed to fill over 14 Family and Consumer Sciences teacher positions in the fall 2013. FCS is identified as a designated teacher shortage area . There is no shortage of need for FCS teachers. They are in demand. FCS as a generalist discipline, expects a teacher who perceives themselves as an effective teacher and has the confidence to teacher a variety of life skills. Life skills need to not only be taught, but taught by efficacious teachers. Home and family will always be integral components of our society and are more teachers’ influences impacting than ever before. Today, education is a service attained outside of the home. If students, who achieve in all areas of life, are the product which is being demanded, we
Pre-service teacher efficacy and concerns, individually and collectively, significantly influenced learner-centered beliefs. These findings indicate teacher education can facilitate the development of beliefs by addressing these trainable characteristics and demonstrate the need to further explore both teacher efficacy and concerns as they relate to learner-centered education within teacher education programs. Following Dunn’s recommendation, the study of teacher efficacy appears to be needed to understand better the success of experiential education in FCS Education. The Demand for FCS Educators In the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, an article about the need for FCS teachers lists all the states having a shortage of teachers. Only five states were found to have sufficient pools for applicants. Twenty six states found they had a shortage or future shortage of qualified FCS teachers . Idaho alone needed to fill over 14 Family and Consumer Sciences teacher positions in the fall 2013. FCS is identified as a designated teacher shortage area . There is no shortage of need for FCS teachers. They are in demand. FCS as a generalist discipline, expects a teacher who perceives themselves as an effective teacher and has the confidence to teacher a variety of life skills. Life skills need to not only be taught, but taught by efficacious teachers. Home and family will always be integral components of our society and teachers’ influences are more impacting than ever before. Today, education is a service attained outside of the home. If students, who achieve in all areas of life, are the product which is being demanded, we centered
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