220 e-ISSN: 2289-8042 JURNAL SULTAN ALAUDDIN SULAIMAN SHAH VOL 3 BIL 2 (2016) Guidance Teachers Scaffolding Techniques on Teacher Trainees during Practicum: An Institutional Case Study Teknik Scaffolding Guru Pembimbing Terhadap Guru Pelatih Semasa Pratikum: Satu Kajian Institusi Kalthom Husain 1 , Mohaida Mohin 2 , Mohd Faeez Ilias 3 , Mohd Amin Mohd Noh 4 , Rosfazila Abdul Rahman 5 ABSTRACT Teaching Practicum provides the teacher trainees an opportunity to acquire practical skills through direct classroom experience. It is also a time for teacher trainees to experiment with the knowledge obtained from the university and put it into practice. Each teacher trainees is assigned to a guidance teacher in guiding them through the three months practicum. In this study, researchers adopted focus group interview. Ten guidance teachers in seven primary schools in district of Selangor were interviewed. The study underpins two objectives namely to examine guidance teachers’ perceptions of the three months teaching practicum duration programme and to explicate the scaffolding techniques they had demonstrated in the practicum event. Guidance Teacher stated that these three months, on-site field experience effectively engaged teacher trainees into the teaching profession, both in the classroom and the school. However they augmented that an extension of another few months would be deem sufficient. They described five strategies used to scaffold teacher trainees into teaching. Successful scaffolding techniques are situated within the context of an extended field experience. This study provides new insights on how the scaffolding techniques are fostered to the teacher trainee. Keywords: Scaffolding Techniques, Guidance Teacher, Practicum ABSTRAK Latihan Praktikum menyediakan peluang kepada guru pelatih untuk menimba ilmu dan kemahiran melalui pengalaman bilik darjah secara langsung. Ia juga merupakan masa untuk guru pelatih untuk mafaatkan ilmu pengetahuan yang diperoleh dari universiti dan menjadikan ia satu amalan. Setiap guru pelatih yang diserahkan kepada seorang guru pembimbing dan mereka melalui praktikum itu selama tiga bulan. Dalam kajian ini, penyelidik mengadoptasikan focus group interview . Seramai sepuluh orang guru bimbingan di tujuh buah sekolah rendah di negeri Selangor telah ditemuramah. Kajian ini meletakkan dua objektif iaitu untuk mengkaji persepsi guru terhadap tempoh praktikum dan mengutarakan teknik perancah mereka perlihatkan ketika menjadi guru pembimbing praktikum. Dapatan kajian ini merekodkan guru pembimbing telah menyatakan bahawa tempoh praktikum tiga bulan tersebut, pengalaman langsung di bilik darjah dan sekolah 1 International Islamic University College Selangor, Malaysia, kalthom@kuis.edu.my 2 International Islamic University Malaysia (UIA), Selangor, Malaysia 3 International Islamic University College Selangor, Malaysia 4 International Islamic University College Selangor, Malaysia 5 International Islamic University College Selangor, Malaysia