The experiential learning model for students working with community groups was developed for specific experiential learning experiences involving 40 hours of actual experience for high school physical education students working with groups in the community. This article discusses the development and specific segments of the model, as well as how…

In this article, the author introduces a service-learning component that enabled her to create a meaningful university-school relationship. This reciprocal relationship allowed her students to contribute over 1,500 hours of academic tutoring for culturally and linguistically diverse children in central Florida, benefiting not only children, but…

In spite of repeated reform efforts, there is research and data that suggest that teachers lack the needed knowledge to successfully teach elementary mathematics. Some argue that teachers lack the needed content knowledge while other argue that a lack of confidence and practice are impacting teachers' ability to successful teach mathematics. As a…

Numerous researchers have stressed the critical need for preservice teachers, especially White middle-class teachers, to be educated in strategies and philosophies that are culturally responsive to an increasingly diverse K-12 student population. To this end, Geneva Gay's framework of culturally responsive pedagogy, which includes caring,…

This article explores connections among leading, teaching, and learning using data from a qualitative/quantitative study of 81 exemplary secondary school teachers in the United States. The teachers' emphasis on learning--for themselves, students, and others--appears to underpin their leadership choices within six major areas of influence:…

Research has called for courses to be developed that provide preservice teachers opportunities to actively engage their pedagogies under construction in order to effectively translate their beliefs into sound instructional practice. This article presents research that examined how a service-learning writing tutoring program affected preservice…