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Derek Pope – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Mathematics is often taught by lecturing students on how to perform procedures, but it could be taught in ways that promote active student engagement and develop deep conceptual understanding. Research supports the latter approach as better for students' retention, engagement, and success with learning mathematics. An important time to influence…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Ji-Eun Kim – Contributions to Music Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore classroom choir teachers' perceptions of choral methods topics in secondary choral teaching preparedness. Members of the American Choral Directors Association Facebook Group who had classroom choir teaching experiences and responded to a survey (N = 100) participated in this study. I employed two…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, Classroom Techniques, Teaching Methods
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Moon, Peter F.; Himmelsbach, Joshua; Weintrop, David; Walkoe, Janet – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
Computational thinking (CT) has the potential to enhance learning when integrated into mathematical classroom activities. Teachers are being asked to include CT concepts in their core disciplines; however, there is an open question as to how best to equip teachers to integrate CT into their practice. Oftentimes teacher candidates enter math and…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Mathematics Education, Science Education, Computation
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Mike Hodges; Xiaolu Liu; Xiaofen D. Hamilton; Brooke Doherty; Ashley Phelps; Jeffrey Colburn; Robert Knipe – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2024
Purpose: This study aimed to examine the ways in which physical education teacher education (PETE) prepares preservice physical education teachers (PPETs) to select and implement appropriate assessments. Methods: PPETs (N = 14) enrolled in the secondary teaching methods course at two US universities participated in the study. Semi-structured…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Amanda Huffman Hayes – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Using narrative inquiry, I share the beginning stories of the instructional visions of secondary mathematics teachers throughout their undergraduate studies of pedagogy and content-specific methods and evidenced in undergraduate coursework and student teaching experience. Guided by Munter's (2014) Visions of High-Quality Mathematics Instruction…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers, Student Teachers, Methods Courses
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Dilek Girit Yildiz; Esila Müftüoglu – Turkish Journal of Education, 2025
The aim of this study is to reveal and evaluate the attending and interpreting skills of student thinking of prospective teachers, as well as their instructional suggestions as responding skills. The current study was conducted with 29 prospective mathematics teachers (PMTs) within a qualitative design in the context of probability. First, three…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Preservice Teachers, Probability, Middle School Students
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Pytash, Kristine E.; Morgan, Denise N.; Testa, Elizabeth – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2023
Despite the importance of learning to teach writing, many preservice teachers do not take a writing course as part of their teacher preparation. For those universities that do offer a writing methods course, teacher educators face challenges in designing responsive and rigorous clinical experiences especially since writing is often under taught in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Middle Schools
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Deepika Menon; Diana S. Cheng; Rosetta W. Ngugi – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2024
Reform efforts in K-12 science education have been gaining pace ever since the introduction of the "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS). The new vision calls for reconsidering teacher preparation programs to prepare future teachers who are confident and competent in delivering NGSS-based instruction. This study investigated the…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Teaching Methods, Microteaching, Preservice Teachers
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Brittany M. Brewer; Joanne E. Marciano; Vaughn W. M. Watson; Saloshna Vandeyar – English in Education, 2025
This qualitative research study examines the perspectives of pre-service teachers (PSTs) in the US and South Africa as they learned about the "pedagogy of compassion" as a generative approach for supporting students in navigating issues of social justice in the context of English teaching and learning. We examine PSTs' work generated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Altruism, Caring
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Dixon, Cory E.; Russell, Jared A.; Buchanan, Alice – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
Critical reflection and transformative action in a cyclical rhythm are the fundamental features of the process of praxis (Freire, P. [1970]. Pedagogy of the oppressed. Continuum). A self-study methodology was used to explore the lead researcher's pedagogical experiences teaching at a youth development center (YDC) while utilizing praxis as…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Reynolds, Todd – Studying Teacher Education, 2021
Five years after an initial self-study on my dialogic teaching practices in a teacher preparation course, I conducted a follow up study to see if I grew as a dialogic teacher in the same class. This article describes the a second self-study of my dialogic teaching practices in an English methods course, and compares findings with the initial…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language), Teacher Education Programs
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Stroupe, David; Gotwals, Amelia; Christensen, Julie; Wray, Kraig A. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2022
This study reports on eleven second-year teachers who were all students in the same practice-based secondary science methods courses framed around ambitious science teaching. In this qualitative embedded single case study, we examined if, how, and why novice teachers linked their current critical pedagogical discourses and instruction back to any…
Descriptors: Science Education, Science Instruction, Methods Courses, Beginning Teachers
Naitnaphit Limlamai – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Secondary English Language Arts classrooms are spaces where teachers can pursue justice through curricular, pedagogical, assessment, and discretionary decisions they make, using popular asset (i.e., cultural modeling, culturally responsive pedagogy) and justice pedagogies (i.e., critical literacies, culturally sustaining pedagogy, restorative…
Descriptors: Justice, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Language Arts
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Okumus, Samet; Bozkurt, Gulay – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2022
This case study investigates prospective middle school mathematics teachers' use of the Angle tool in GeoGebra, focusing on reflex angles in a geometric construction task. They constructed a parallelogram with individual heights for any two consecutive sides. We analyzed their screencasts to identify the ways in which they used reflex angles in…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Computer Software, Teaching Methods
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Hine, Gregory; Herbert, Sandra – Issues in Educational Research, 2022
Teacher education programs are pivotal in the professional preparation and formation of pre-service secondary mathematics teachers (PSMTs), but there appears to be a lack of understanding of how best to prepare PSMTs for the profession. The purpose of this study was to examine and monitor changes over time in PSMTs' views about approaches to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Mathematics Instruction
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