A SERVICE-LEARNING E-TUTORING PROGRAM FOR ROMANIAN PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS

The Service-Learning (S-L) pedagogy is an innovative, malleable and convertible curricular tool that can be efficiently adopted by any discipline, serving a wide array of academic, community and social goals. This paper describes the restructuring and extension proposal for PedTut, a previously developed S-L e-tutoring program for pre-service teachers, following the guidelines of a validated model for including S-L in higher education (CLAYSS, 2016) including multistep-stages (motivation, diagnosis, design & planning, execution, closure and celebration) and cross-sectional processes such as the reflection process, the record and communication process and the assessment process. The aim of the e-tutoring program was to develop and implement a S-L project designed for aiding novice pre-service students with online feedback on their pedagogical teaching practice regarding some methodological and psychological aspects of teaching, as well as the teaching experience as a whole. This study aims to restructure and extend the wireframe for the initial S-L program offered to pre-service teachers, at a national level, through e-tutorials, to enhance their pedagogical training for more accuracy and efficiency, as well as their civic responsibility, academic performance, subjective happiness and self-efficacy levels and to increase their workforce enrolment by easing their transition into the world of teaching practice. (C) 2018 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.UK