Taking an active role in our pre-service teachers’ overseas teaching experiences: a report on an experiential learning project in China

Abstract

This report introduces an experiential learning project in a pre-service undergraduate teacher education programme at a major Hong Kong university in which 10 pre-service English language teachers and myself, their teacher educator, participated in a two-week overseas teaching experience in a primary school in Ningbo, China. I report on my experience as a novice teacher educator and the benefit I found in taking an active role in this project.

Keywords:

• Experiential learning
• overseas teaching experience
• pre-service teachers
• initial teacher education programme