Summer Enrichment Workshop (SEW): A Quality Component of The University of Alabama's Gifted Education Preservice Training Program

摘要

Summer Enrichment Workshop (SEW) is a clinical experience in the teacher preservice training program for gifted and talented (GT) master's degree interns at the University of Alabama. This mixed design study investigated the effects of the SEW clinical experience on interns' preparation to teach. Quantitative analysis demonstrated a statistically significant difference in the effects of SEW on the interns' self-appraisals of knowledge and preparation to teach Talents Unlimited higher-order thinking skills. In addition, qualitative data corroborated the statistical results and demonstrated that SEW was a high-quality clinical experience that had a positive effect on interns' learning and teaching.