The Difficulties that Encounter the Practical Education Students in the Hashemite University and Al-Isra Private University

This study aimed at identifying the difficulties that encounter the practical education students in the Hashemite University and Al-Isra Private University. The sample of the study consisted of (133) male and female students. They were (73) students from the Hashemite University, and (60) from Al-Isra Private University who registered the first term in 2007/2008. A questionnaire was developed. It was composed of (26) items and divided into five domains: cooperative school, practical education programme, student- teacher, cooperative teacher and the academic supervisor. The results of the study showed that the most important difficulties that encountered the student teacher were as follow: the classrooms were crowded, the load of tasks on the student-teacher during the implementation of the practical education programme, and the cooperative schools were far from the student-teacher residence. The results also revealed that there were statistical significant differences between the means of the difficulties due to the type of the university and was attributed to the private ones. It also showed that there were no statistical significant differences between the means of the difficulties attributed to the gender and specialty.