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D'Souza, Lisa Andries – Middle School Journal, 2017
This examination of practice aims to share pedagogical practices, grounded in the research of teaching and learning, for building a community of learners in teacher education coursework. The pedagogical exploration supports explicit modeling of strategies to support teacher candidates in their mission to develop a community of learners in their…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Olitsky, Stacy – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2013
Bellocchi, Ritchie, Tobin, Sandhu and Sandhu's (2013) study highlights the crucial role that emotions play in learning at the university level in a preservice secondary science teacher education class. They examine the classroom structures that tended to lead to both a positive valence and a high level of intensity of the emotional climate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers
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Richards, Janet C. – Qualitative Report, 2011
There is a sparse body of literature about students' and instructors' experiences in graduate qualitative courses. In this study, 11 doctoral students and one instructor employed a narrative framework to uncover our perceived truths about our experiences as we interacted, studied, pondered, and journeyed through a qualitative research methods…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Graduate Study
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Star, Jon R.; Strickland, Sharon K. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2008
Video has assumed an increasingly prominent role in teacher education, particularly in the form of the viewing of videotaped class lessons by preservice teachers. Yet there is little research that confirms whether preservice teachers attend to the aspects of the video(s) that teacher educators anticipate or desire. This article explores this issue…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Observation
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Rush, Leslie S.; Fecho, Bob – Teaching Education, 2008
Students and teachers inevitably enter classrooms with differing expectations and experiences; those differences provide opportunities for both conflict and growth. This article examines this phenomenon in an undergraduate teacher education course on reading instruction at the middle-school level, presents case studies of students' improvisations…
Descriptors: Speech Language Pathology, Case Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Inquiry
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Fecho, Bob; Commeyras, Michelle; Bauer, Eurydice Bouchereau; Font, George – Journal of Literacy Research, 2000
Presents a qualitative study that problematizes the authors' classroom authority as they sought to enact critical inquiries with preservice teachers. Contends that preservice teachers must face the reality of having to function as authority figures while still maintaining a classroom conducive to meaning making. Provides three lenses through which…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Higher Education, Literacy, Methods Courses
Niles, Karen – 1995
A study examined students' reactions to the Student-Directed Discussion technique (an attempt to develop a class "text" from the students' joint construction of meaning) as used in a methods course on language development. The students (25 of 27 were present the day of the survey) responded anonymously concerning whether they thought the…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Constructivism (Learning), Discussion (Teaching Technique), Higher Education
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Black, Kathie – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper explores four students' attempts at teaching science in the real world classroom during their initial student teaching practicum, including their struggles and successes. When pre-service teachers enter their initial practicum experience they are confronted with differing teaching philosophies of their own, their university professors,…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Practicums, Methods Courses