Abstract

• The main purpose of this study is to investigate the level of teacher educators’ perceptions and tension towards practicum practice. The research design for this study is descriptive research design. In this study, (150) teacher educators are randomly selected from Yankin, Thingangyun, Pathein, and Myaungmya Education Degree Colleges. A questionnaire with (60) items was used as an instrument. The questionnaire on five-point Likert-Scale was developed; strongly disagree, disagree, undecided, agree, and strongly agree. In order to describe the level of teacher educators’ perceptions and tension towards practicum practice, mean, standard deviation, frequency, and percentage were used. Pearson product-moment correlation was used to find out the relationship between teacher educators’ perceptions and tension towards practicum practice. The results showed that there was a negative correlation (r = −.410) between teacher educators’ perceptions and tension towards practicum practice and there was a significant difference at 0.01 level (2- tailed). This indicated that teacher educators who have high positive perceptions towards practicum practice attain less tension towards practicum practice.