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Li, Yanan; Krause, Samantha; McLendon, Aidan; Jo, Injeong – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
Field-based education is interactive, hands-on, and based on real world experience and methodology, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has faced special challenges. As many institutions may struggle to maintain this vital component of geographic education, this resource paper aims to illustrate the impacts of the pandemic and provide some…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, COVID-19, Pandemics, Field Experience Programs
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Neel, Michael A. – Teaching Education, 2017
Recently, scholars have called for a practice-based framework for teacher education and some have argued more narrowly for a framework built around "core practices of teaching." These efforts, in part, are intended to make teacher education practice public and available for collective improvement. The purpose of this paper is to…
Descriptors: Minimum Competencies, Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design
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Wilburne, Jane M.; Napoli, Mary – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2008
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics calls for students to see relationships and connections with mathematics (2000). This study examined the influences on eight pre-service elementary school teachers' beliefs and knowledge of teaching mathematics through literature. The semester long project involved both the language arts and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Language Arts, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses
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Spector, Barbara; Burkett, Ruth S.; Leard, Cyndy – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2007
This is the report of a qualitative emergent-design study of 2 different Web-enhanced science methods courses for preservice elementary teachers in which an experiential learning strategy, labeled "using yourself as a learning laboratory," was implemented. Emergent grounded theory indicated this strategy, when embedded in a course organized as an…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Grief, Participant Observation
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Palmer, Jesse – Southern Social Studies Journal, 1998
Introduces a project to engage preservice teachers in a service learning activity. Provides background on service learning and how to incorporate it into the classroom. Suggests that preservice teachers need to experience service learning so that they will be better prepared to implement service learning in their future classrooms. (DSK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Methods Courses
Taylor, Nancy E.; And Others – 1994
This paper reports program changes in the junior year internship that were made to bring practice closer to the theoretical goals of the Catholic University of America's teacher education program in Washington, D.C. The changes had the goal of increasing the quality and scope of education students' thinking about education, and they involved…
Descriptors: College Juniors, Conceptual Tempo, Elementary Education, Experiential Learning