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Savas Bastürk; Mehtap Tastepe; Pinar Uzun – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
Misconception/student difficulty is one of the student characteristics that should be known by teachers. Teachers should have effective knowledge and strategies to overcome these misconceptions and difficulties. In this sense, microteaching practices have an important place in the context of pre-service teachers' ability to increase their…
Descriptors: Microteaching, Mathematics Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Eroglu, Deniz – Online Submission, 2023
This study examines the creative responses of pre-service mathematics teachers in their lesson plays designed to address sixth-grade students' misconceptions about algebraic expressions. This research employs a qualitative descriptive research design, involving 78 third-year students enrolled in an elementary mathematics education program. Using…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Teacher Student Relationship
Sherridon Leigh Sweeney – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Prior research has established preservice literacy teachers' beliefs about teaching and learning are often misguided and/or overly-simplistic, yet limited work has examined in what ways their in-the-moment teaching decisions align or misalign with what they believe. This qualitative study used deductive analysis methods to: (1) Identify three…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Kula Ünver, Semiha; Özgür, Zekiye; Bukova Güzel, Esra – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
Microteaching provides a valuable setting for preservice teachers to practice teaching prior to real classroom teaching experiences, as well as allowing teacher educators to observe the strengths and weaknesses of the preservice teachers' pedagogical content knowledge. Therefore, we studied the preservice mathematics teachers' microteachings, with…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Microteaching, Lesson Plans
Alex Bakke – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Discourse markers (DMs) are linguistic forms characterized by their use as conversation organizers or pause fillers (Fox Tree, 2010). Although used frequently in both speech and writing, DMs are not often taught in L2 classrooms, despite incorrect usage causing potential misunderstandings (Polat, 2011). Additionally, L2 learners have been observed…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Classification
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Brugar, Kristy A. – Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue, 2018
People are inundated with visual information. In this study, I address the question: "When preservice elementary teacher candidates include visuals and graphics into social studies lessons, in what ways do they integrate these materials?" As part of a social studies methods course, participants created lesson plans. These plans included…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Schools, Visual Aids, Social Studies
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Anat, Klemer; Einav, Keisar; Shirley, Rapoport – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2020
This article describes how creating a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) about ratio and proportion in a collaborative, technological environment during mathematics teacher training, benefited the development of content, pedagogical and technological knowledge for teaching. Twenty-nine trainee mathematics teachers, divided into groups, created…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Online Courses
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Bilik Durmaz, Asli; Isiksal Bostan, Mine – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate the knowledge of pre-service middle school mathematics teachers on possible misconceptions and difficulties held by students regarding the area of triangle. In line with this aim, qualitative case study research design was used to obtain deep information. As the participants of the study, two pre-service…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Misconceptions
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Dogan, Mustafa; Özdemir, Ahmet Sükrü; Sahal, Muhammet – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2018
In this study, it was tried to determine teaching activities that elementary preservice mathematics teachers exhibited in a micro teaching session. Preservice teachers are required to prepare and later present a sample micro teaching session. First of all, they were advised to freely select a topic (or an attainment) of their own intention within…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Middle Schools
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Brinda, Torsten; Napierala, Stephan; Tobinski, David; Diethelm, Ira – Education and Information Technologies, 2019
The ability to categorize concepts is an essential capability for human thinking and action. On the one hand, the investigation of such abilities is the purview of psychology; on the other hand, subject-specific educational research is also of interest, as a number of research works in the field of science education show. For computer science…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Computer Science Education, Misconceptions, Student Attitudes
Kizito, Ndihokubwayo; Kinya, Shimizu; Hideo, Ikeda; Takuya, Baba – Online Submission, 2019
This study is investigating the student-teachers' conception of static electricity in Rwandan teacher training colleges. The study used a pre- and post-intervention design, where two groups of students were randomly assigned in two groups. Along a period of four weeks, one group was taught using the traditional method (TRAD) while another using…
Descriptors: Energy, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Intervention
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Yilmaz, Nuray Parlak – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
This study aimed to identify the difficulties that information technology student teachers have in teaching concepts. This qualitative study was carried out with 12 student teachers. The student teachers were fourth-year students enrolled in the Special Teaching Methods II course in the spring semester of the 2010-2011 academic year. The research…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Qualitative Research, Student Teachers
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Guz, Ewa; Tetiurka, Maugorzata – Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2013
In order to initiate and maintain meaningful interaction in a young learner L2 classroom, an adult teacher needs to approach children in ways consistent with their developmental profile and adjust teaching methodology so as to accommodate young learners' current skills. This requires the ability to predict the child's possible responses to…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Imagination, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Murphy, Ashley N. E. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Linguists have long accepted the inevitability of linguistic variation as scientific fact. However, the general public continues to associate regional variation with low intelligence and to promote a non-regional, "accentless" English as the ideal. The result of this ideology, which ignores the natural diversity of all languages, is that…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Dialects, Metalinguistics, Writing (Composition)
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Geography Teacher, 2009
"The Geography Teacher" provides hands-on reference and educative material for K-12 Geography teachers. The journal also pioneers innovative ideas for contemporary teaching methods, including lesson plans. This issue contains the following: (1) Census in Schools Program (census.gov); (2) Ask Dr. de Blij (Dr. Harm de Blij); (3) Eritrea:…
Descriptors: Geography, Foreign Countries, Book Reviews, Climate