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Griffiths, Jennifer L. – Online Submission, 2010
The student teaching component of most teacher preparation programs in the United States varies from 30 to 300 hours of field service (Levine, 2006); typically this is a culminating activity comprised of a 15-week engagement at a school in two separate grade levels. California Multiple Subject Credential candidates typically divide their 15-week…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Teaching Models, Interviews, Self Esteem
Grove, Michael C. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Despite wave after wave of educational reform in the United States our students continue to lag behind their peers in other industrialized countries on virtually all measures of academic achievement. Effective professional development (PD) is seen as a key to improving instructional practice and therefore student learning, but traditional forms of…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Science Teachers, Faculty Development, Transfer of Training
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Gunawardena, Charlotte N.; Ortegano-Layne, Ludmila; Carabajal, Kayleigh; Frechette, Casey; Lindemann, Ken; Jennings, Barbara – Distance Education, 2006
We discuss the development of an instructional design model, WisCom (Wisdom Communities), based on socio-constructivist and sociocultural learning philosophies and distance education principles for the development of online wisdom communities, and the application and evaluation of the model in an online graduate course in the USA. The WisCom model…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Instructional Design, Internet, Constructivism (Learning)