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Asia Evelyn Franks – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Preservice elementary teachers' attitudes towards mathematics are often negatively influenced by their K-12 education. Accordingly, teacher educators must allow preservice elementary teachers to experience mathematical instruction differently to change their attitudes toward mathematics and their conceptions about what it means to teach and learn…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
Lauren E. Wagner – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Scholars have advocated for more environmental education (EE) within elementary preservice teacher education through science methods courses as elementary preservice teachers have consistently demonstrated limited environmental literacy. This is critical as environmental issues continue to threaten our world, preservice teachers must demonstrate…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Matthew Flores – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A central aspect of reform-minded mathematical teaching is training and developing teachers' ability to notice vital aspects in the classroom and more specifically, students' mathematical thinking. As there is an abundance of evidence and research that support the benefits for teachers to elicit and use students' ideas and thinking during…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic, Thinking Skills, Teaching Methods
Stephanie D. Sigmon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This exploratory, mixed-method study investigated how strength-based approach to mathematics instruction (SBAMI) influences the academic optimism of general education and special education pre-service teachers (PSTs). Academic optimism, linked to student achievement in previous research, was used as the theoretical framework. Data included…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Psychological Patterns, Positive Attitudes, Preservice Teachers
Bethany Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Dual Language Immersion (DLI) language education programs are complex spaces that have the potential to support greater educational equity. However, achieving this potential requires DLI teachers who are prepared to disrupt inequitable status quos by engaging with complexity to welcome into their classrooms ways of knowing and being that are…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Immersion Programs, Language Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Sarah Anne Bubash – ProQuest LLC, 2024
To successfully create inclusive environments that address the unique needs of each student, teacher candidates must adopt their students' perspectives. Radical imagination is essential for empathy, as it enables individuals to recognize diverse viewpoints (Greene, 1995). Arts-based methods provide a means for teacher candidates to practice…
Descriptors: Empathy, Inclusion, Teaching Methods, Cartoons
Michelle Anne Rose – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate the relationship between North Carolina pre-service music teachers' perceived preparedness to teach online, Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) score, and online pedagogy instruction included in methods classes. An online survey was emailed to members of the North Carolina…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Music Teachers, Readiness, Teacher Attitudes
Peter Francis Moon – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Computational thinking (CT) has great potential for enhancing mathematics and science lessons in K-12 education. Numerous studies demonstrate that under the right circumstances, CT integration in math and science can improve student learning and promote deeper understanding. However, teacher education currently does not include preparation for…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Computer Science Education, Faculty Development, Methods Courses
Qiu Zhong – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research has shown that teachers and students have difficulties in connecting climate change evidence with climate change claims. Such difficulties may come from the lack of knowledge about how scientific models and modeling work in climate science. Climate change as a complex system with a large time and land scale requires sophisticated…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Science Instruction, Climate
Michael Levicky – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This action research study honors teacher-as-researcher and utilizes qualitative methods of data collection alongside emergent design to study arts-integrated teaching and learning at a mid-sized Midwestern university in a social studies methods course. The thinking and learning of both pre-service teachers and the teacher educator/researcher are…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Methods Courses, Art Education, Integrated Curriculum
Bradley T. Rhew – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Preservice educators are required to enroll in multiple methods courses to prepare them to effectively teach content to students. With the increase of online teacher preparation programs, methods courses are also being offered virtually. This study sought to investigate the overall attitudes, beliefs, and preparedness of candidates after…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Science Instruction, Scientific Attitudes
Allison Kilgore Thompson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study explored best practices to increase preservice teacher self-efficacy before the student teaching semester. The research was guided by this central inquiry and three sub-questions. Using a pre- and post-phenomenon survey instrument as well as an initial questionnaire and a final reflection, preservice teachers who were…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Student Relationship