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Impact of Two Preservice Teachers' Value Orientations on Their Interpretation and Delivery of the Skill Themes Approach
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May, Leah K.; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2021
Purpose: To determine the impact of two preservice teachers' value orientations on their interpretation and delivery of the skill themes approach. Method: The short form of the value orientations inventory and five qualitative techniques were used to collect data. Participants' value orientations inventory profiles were illustrated graphically.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Values, Orientation, Skill Development
Development of Preservice Teachers' Value Orientations during a Secondary Methods Course and Early Field Experience
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Sofo, Seidu; Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Sport, Education and Society, 2010
Few studies have examined the value orientations of physical education preservice teachers (PTs). The purposes of this study were to: (1) describe the extent to which one cohort of PTs' value orientations changed and developed during a secondary methods course and early field experience (EFE); and (2) determine why PTs' value orientations changed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physical Education, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
Student Teachers' Conceptions of the Teaching-Learning Process: Case Studies of Recruits with Coaching and Teaching Orientations.
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Curtner-Smith, Matthew D. – Physical Educator, 1997
Investigated elements of the teaching-learning process associated with successful professional socialization upon which two preservice teachers focused at the end of student teaching and following completion of coursework. Results indicated they were concerned with elements of teaching related to pupil learning in congruence with the preparation…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Learning Processes, Physical Education Teachers