Clinical experience is crucial in developing student teachers’ conception about the teaching profession. They are required to make decisions in specific situations and context hence they need to draw on their beliefs, assumptions, knowledge and experience about teaching and learning. This study focuses on comparative analysis of Teacher Clinical Experience Guiding Principles in selected Teacher Training Institutions around the World. This study involves doing a critical and comparative analysis of selected models and programmes pertaining to guiding principles for teacher clinical experience in selected renowned teacher training institutions around the world. Various type of documents on teacher clinical experience guiding principles has been analyzed including academic programme handbooks, curriculums, academic papers, and others. Apart from that, semi-structured interviews as well as open question survey were administered in selected teacher training institutions. Based on the analysis of data, provisional guiding principles were proposed to be considered by any teacher education institution in designing their curriculum framework in order to produce quality teacher for the future.
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