This study aims to highlight the implications of effective support in practice teaching by analyzing a survey administered to pre-service teachers. Through the analysis of teaching plans and questionnaire surveys, we identify the difficulties that occur when trainee teachers set up small-group learning in their lessons. From the questionnaires, we found that trainee teachers have many opinions about the advantages or disadvantages of such lessons, although they had little experience of small-group learning from their time at high school. The results of the analysis suggest that the following points are important when we instruct trainee teachers:
1) Clarify both the purpose of small-group learning and how to conduct individual learning;
2) Show students the aim of small-group learning;
3) Ensure trainee teachers review small-group learning for relating it to whole or individual learning;
and
4) Ensure trainee teachers pay attention to the relationship between small-group learning and learning evaluations.