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Direct linkWaring, Scott M. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
During the past decade, there has been more than an adequate amount of research addressing issues regarding social studies methods courses. However, the apparent void is that there is no clear understanding of what pedagogical content knowledge or understanding of pedagogical approaches teacher candidates bring with them to social studies methods…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Content Analysis, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Download full textBurton, Megan; Daane, C. J.; Giesen, Judy – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2008
This study compared content knowledge for teaching mathematics differences between elementary pre-service teachers in a traditional versus an experimental mathematics methods course. The experimental course replaced 20 minutes of traditional methods, each class, with an intervention of elementary mathematics content. The difference between groups…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Morgan, Peter W. – AILACTE Journal, 2008
This study examines the preparation of preservice elementary teaching candidates in science content and methods courses and the relationship of their coursework to future teaching. One-hundred-five undergraduate elementary education majors participated in the study. Data was gathered through the completion of a background questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education
Hopper, Tim; Sanford, Kathy – Studying Teacher Education, 2008
This article reports the influence of school-integrated teacher education (SITE) courses on student teachers' initial experiences of learning how to teach. We analyse data from five student teachers who reflect back on their experiences of learning to teach through the integrated teaching and learning experiences of SITE courses. The article…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Poetry, Teaching Methods
Fortune, Jimmie C.; And Others – 1992
The Educational Research Department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg) attempts to go beyond conventional use of a computer laboratory by offering services to further the educational knowledge of its students. Laboratory staff members demonstrate methods needed to accomplish educational tasks for program…
Descriptors: Computer Centers, Computer Literacy, Computer Science Education, Computer Software
Ferguson, Patrick – 1993
A project involving prospective social studies teachers as collaborators in an experimental investigation is described. The study was undertaken as part of the course requirements for an integrated educational psychology/secondary methods course. The course was intended to ameliorate the fragmentation of the coursework and lack of coherence…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, College Students, Education Majors, Educational Research
