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Murray-Everett, Natasha C.; Coffield, Erin – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2020
Many elementary and middle school students are confronted by media messages constantly. They receive messages not only from family and friends, but from television and social media outlets. The media messages about current events are often politically biased, polarized in nature, and potentially inaccurate, especially on social media platforms.…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Media Literacy, Social Media, Deception
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Sutherland, Sue; Stuhr, Paul T.; Ayvazo, Shiri – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2016
Background: Many alternative curricular models exist in physical education to better meet the needs of students than the multi-activity team sports curriculum that dominates in the USA. These alternative curricular models typically require different content knowledge (CK) and pedagogical CK (PCK) to implement successfully. One of the complexities…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Adventure Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Sezen-Barrie, Asli; Moore, Joel; Roig, Cara E. – International Journal of Science Education, 2015
Drawn from the norms and rules of their fields, scientists use variety of practices, such as asking questions and arguing based on evidence, to engage in research that will contribute to our understanding of Earth and beyond. In this study, we explore how preservice teachers' learn to teach scientific practices while teaching plate tectonic…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Earth Science
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Perlman, Dana – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of an intervention grounded in Self-Determination Theory on preservice teachers' instructional behaviors and the motivational responses of their students. A total of 62 preservice physical education teachers enrolled in a secondary physical education content and methods course were randomly…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Self Determination, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Skills
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Colwell, Jamie – Action in Teacher Education, 2016
This qualitative case study explored preservice teachers' (PSTs) beliefs about disciplinary literacy as they engaged in a blog project with middle-school students to discuss historical texts. Twenty-eight PSTs, enrolled in a semester-long social studies methods course and participating in the blog project as a course assignment, constituted the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
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Demir, Abdulkadir; Abell, Sandra K. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2010
The purpose of this phenomenographic study was to: (a) gain an understanding of the meaning of inquiry held by beginning science teachers and their instructors in an Alternative Teacher Certification Program (ATCP); and (b) compare science teachers' views of inquiry with what they learned in their ATCP. Participants were four beginning science…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Observation, Interviews, Data Analysis
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McCaughtry, Nate; Sofo, Seidu; Rovegno, Inez; Curtner-Smith, Matthew – European Physical Education Review, 2004
This study used cognitive developmental theory to analyze how teachers learn to teach sport education. Two groups of undergraduate pre-service teachers were studied, one group during their secondary methods and corresponding field-teaching courses, the other during an independent teaching course. Data were collected through ethnographic…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Athletics, Skill Development, Teacher Educators