eng Science and Education Publishing American Journal of Educational Research 2333-4770 2014-07-07 2 7 519 525 10.12691/education-2-7-14 EDUCATION20142714 article Siping LIU siping.liu@whu.edu.cn 1 Jian WANG 2 College of Foreign Languages and Literature, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China College of Education, Texas Tech University, U.S.A This essay explores the questions about preservice teachers' belief about effective teaching, especially their understanding of students, and their expectation from teacher education program. The authors ground their research in theories of teachers' belief and belief change. Data collected from 35 participants are based on open-ended survey questions. Findings indicate that the participants made a significant change of their belief about students after the guided observation. They believe what they need to learn from teacher education is mainly pedagogical knowledge. The authors conclude that field experience helps students make some change of their belief but they still take a rather simplistic view about teaching. http://pubs.sciepub.com/education/2/7/14/education-2-7-14.pdf belief belief change early intervention student teacher