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Tennessee Department of Education, 2025
In the 2024 legislative session, the Tennessee General Assembly passed Chapter 551 of the Public Acts of 2024 (PC 551), the Mathematics Supports Act (the Act), codified at Tenn. Code Ann. §§ 49-1-233 -- 49-1-234. The Act indicates the General Assembly's commitment to strong mathematics instruction in Tennessee to prepare students for postsecondary…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Faculty Development, School Districts
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Samaras, Anastasia P.; Frank, Toya Jones; Williams, Monique Apollon; Christopher, Emily; Rodick, William Harry, III. – Studying Teacher Education, 2016
Student feedback collected through program evaluation of secondary education licensure and Master's program clinical experiences prompted us to conduct a collective self-study. We used a reflective framework for analysis and discussion of the shifts students in our courses made as they progressed from observers to practicing teachers. Along with…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Groups), Program Improvement, Clinical Experience, Program Evaluation
Greenberg, Julie; Walsh, Kate; McKee, Arthur – National Council on Teacher Quality, 2014
"Teacher Prep Review 2014" is the second edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) annual assessment of the nation's 2,400 teacher prep programs. The "Review" uncovers early evidence that teacher prep programs are beginning to make changes. It arrives at a time of heightened, unprecedented…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Improvement, Teacher Effectiveness
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Wikan, Gerd; Molster, Terje; Faugli, Bjorn; Hope, Rafael – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2010
This paper explores how and to what extent digital multimodal text production can play a role in project work. The focus is upon describing and understanding how teachers and learners view multimodal text production as part of a learning process. Group-based project work has been used extensively in Norwegian schools since the 1970s. One criticism…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Learner Engagement, Group Activities, Secondary School Teachers
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Masterman, Elizabeth; Manton, Marion – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2011
The authors introduce the concept of design support tools and situate them in the pedagogic context of professional development for technology-enhanced learning (TEL) and the research field of learning design. Through focusing on the development and evaluation of one such tool, Phoebe, they discuss their value to lecturers in post-compulsory…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education
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Hiebert, James – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
An alternative mathematics preparation program for K-8 teachers is described as an existence proof that steadily increasing effectiveness of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) preparation is possible. The program is based on treating every lesson in each of five mathematics content and methods courses as objects of study.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Improvement, Alternative Teacher Certification