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Brown, Carmen Sherry – Higher Education Studies, 2018
To guide and support teacher candidates in developing the knowledge and skills they need in the classroom, teacher preparation programs must prepare students in acquiring the experience and expertise needed to demonstrate mastery of general knowledge in the specific subject or content area. In addition, teacher preparation programs must support…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, College Faculty, Teacher Educators
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Evans, Brian R. – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
The purpose of this study was to understand the mathematical content knowledge new teachers have both before and after taking a mathematics methods course in the NYCTF program. Further, the purpose was to understand the attitudes toward mathematics and concepts of self-efficacy that Teaching Fellows had over the course of the semester. The sample…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Methods Courses, Mathematics Education, Self Efficacy
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McVarish, Judith – Journal for Learning through the Arts, 2009
Helping pre-service teachers to feel competent and courageous about the mathematics they will find themselves teaching as elementary school teachers is a critical component of any math methods course. This paper addresses this aim by highlighting a process that involves pre-service teachers in creating original mathematics literature books. This…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers
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Gerwin, David – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2003
A "Motivation" eliciting the "Aim" of each lesson initiates each lesson in the orthodox "developmental lesson-plan" that has dominated classroom instruction in NYC public schools for at least the past half-century. An action-research study of 38 lesson-plans (over 5 each from 5 teachers) drawn from student-teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teaching Models, Teacher Effectiveness, Lesson Plans