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Coleman, Stacy; Lowery, Kendra – Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 2023
After viewing a video about Black teachers' experiences, Vince Matthews, a White male middle school principal, invited Black teachers to a listening session to learn about their school experiences. He was certain that it would be a short, pleasant meeting because he believed he did not have a racist bone in his body. Instead, four teachers shared…
Descriptors: Whites, Principals, Racism, African American Teachers
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Sheppard, Jennifer – Composition Studies, 2021
This article reports on findings from a hyperlocal programmatic survey on writing instructors' experiences in moving teaching online during the coronavirus pandemic. It highlights key challenges instructors reported, including a need for strategies addressing increased workload; a desire for greater experience with pedagogy- rather than…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Adjustment, Web Based Instruction
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Jennifer D. Walker; Marla J. Lohmann; Kathleen A. Boothe; Ruby L. Owiny – Journal of Special Education Preparation, 2022
Although small teacher education preparation programs (STEPP) may struggle to implement robust program design frameworks compared to their larger preparation program peers, a collaborative design can help smaller programs with resource limitations. This collaboration can facilitate the design of effective and efficient teacher preparation programs…
Descriptors: Usability, Special Education, Teacher Education, Small Classes
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Colantonio-Yurko, Kathleen C.; Miller, Henry; Cheveallier, Jennifer – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2018
In this article, three English Language Arts teachers draw on their teaching experiences of addressing sexual violence in assigned young adult literature. The authors use their experiences to guide a series of suggestions for other teachers who wish to teach these texts in their own classes. First, the authors offer suggestions for legitimizing…
Descriptors: Rape, English, Language Arts, Sexual Abuse
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Mansfield, Katherine Cumings; Stacy, Jaime – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2017
The purpose of this article is to share the insights gleaned from the literature and our on-the-ground realities teaching practitioners to conduct educational research and evaluation. We focus on four areas we have found most important for teaching practitioner-scholars: (a) giving careful attention to andragogy versus pedagogy, (b) engaging the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Assessment, Andragogy, Team Teaching
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Reilly, Anne H. – Management Teaching Review, 2018
Reflective practice supports critical thinking and assessment skills through analyzing one's own life experiences, and the role of reflection in learning has been long recognized. However, drawbacks of many reflective practice assignments are their broad scope and lengthy written requirements. I propose that the reflection process is robust enough…
Descriptors: Management Development, Teaching Methods, Teaching Experience, Reflection
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Odhuu, Kelli – English Teaching Forum, 2014
This article speaks to teachers who have been paired with native speakers (NSs) who have never taught before, and the feelings of frustration, discouragement, and nervousness on the teacher's behalf that can occur as a result. In order to effectively tackle this situation, teachers need to work together with the NSs. Teachers in this scenario…
Descriptors: Native Speakers, Teaching Methods, Volunteers, Foreign Countries
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Nordyke, Shane; Palmer, Daniel; Anderson, William; Braunstein, Rich; Fairholm, Matt – Journal of Political Science Education, 2011
PhD programs in the United States are increasingly marked by the rising influence of market-oriented dynamics. As a case in point, one of the primary objectives of the new PhD program offered at the University of South Dakota is to deliver a doctoral program through a flexible--or hybrid--format that is accessible to nontraditional as well as…
Descriptors: Political Science, Doctoral Programs, Blended Learning, Educational Strategies
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Durham-Barnes, Joanna – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2011
While many urban teachers flee urban schools after a few years of teaching, many spend their careers in teaching in the urban environment. A series of biographical interviews was conducted with four "career" urban teachers; throughout the data collection and analyses and despite their decade or more in the field, the interactions between the…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Effectiveness, Urban Environment
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed.; Moyer, Peggy S, Ed.; Bothman, Susan M., Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. Licensure candidate is now required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience. This course, Education 590 Culminating…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Student Teaching, Action Research
Golanty-Koel, Renee – 1988
A description is given of a program developed to offer first semester student teachers the opportunity to become intensely involved with adolescents through a tutorial program on a high school campus. The object was to enable student teachers to become familiar with adolescent social and learning problems, particularly those of students from lower…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Dropout Prevention, High School Students, High Schools
Bishop, Charles C. – 1997
In spring 1991, a teacher exchange/mentor program was developed between Kansas' Johnson County Community College (JCCC) and the University of Kansas to attract young educators to community college teaching careers, give educators firsthand experience teaching at a community college while being mentored by a seasoned JCCC faculty member, and…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Community Colleges, Faculty Development, Higher Education
McDowell, F. M. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
The term "junior college" is now more widely accepted as applying to those institutions, either public or private, which offer the first two years of the standard college course, above and beyond the standard 15 units of high-school work. A variety of factors have, within the past few years, given an unusual significance to these…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Small Colleges, Two Year Colleges, Public Colleges
National Education Association, Washington, DC. – 2003
This report presents the results of the 2000-01 Status of the American Public School Teacher survey. This survey has been conducted every 5 years since 1956. In 2000-01, surveys were sent to 2,826 of the nation's approximately 2,953,000 public school teachers, with a 67.4-percent response rate. The resulting data are presented in the areas of: (1)…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Turvey, Patricia J. – 1996
A practicum project was developed and implemented to encourage teachers' use of inclusion teaching. The objectives of the practicum were to increase targeted teachers' knowledge and understanding of inclusion programs by 20 percent, increase their knowledge of co-teaching 20 percent, and demonstrate their knowledge of adapting the curriculum for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classroom Environment, Curriculum Development, Disabilities