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Fuller, Frank – 1999
This paper offers a model of faculty staff development for distance education that does not require, or permit, continuous change in instructional design. The model is based on the paradigm shift ideas of Thomas Kuhn and the reeducation model of Kurt Lewin. In the model offered reeducation implies not simply education or training, but involves…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Distance Education, Educational Technology, Faculty Development
Thurlow, Martha L. – 1993
This paper examines the concept of "outcomes-based education" (OBE), how it was developed, how it relates to other current reforms that encompass the notion of outcomes, and how it relates to students with disabilities in theory and in practice. Outcomes-based education holds that all children can learn and succeed and that schools are…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disabilities, Educational Change, Educational Methods
Morton, Johnnye L. – 1991
A study examined whether modeling desired teaching strategies would produce future teachers who could confidently go into a new classroom and set up a writing program. Four weeks of class time in a teacher education class at Northeastern University in Oklahoma were used to teach the writing process through the use of a writer's workshop. Results…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
Schryer, Catherine Foy – 1987
In "The Politics of Education" Paulo Freire considers writing evaluation to be the expression of educational ideologies. An examination of the scholarly writing in composition and rhetoric research shows a division between formative or process evaluation and summative or product evaluation, with advocates for each side. As readers,…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Protocol Analysis
McCurry, David S. – 2000
This paper opens with a story of what was once cutting-edge, state-of-the-art technology and its integration into preservice teacher preparation. It is a story of the technology, in this case video recording, the theories applied to its educational use, and a specific teacher training method--microteaching. The historical context of microteaching…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Educational Theories, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
Hughes, Linda – 1994
Teacher educators have become increasingly interested in the beliefs preservice teachers bring to their undergraduate methods courses. S. Lortie (1975) posited that the major influence in shaping future teachers' conceptions of teaching is their previous years of experience as students. A study of students in preservice reading methods courses…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Higher Education, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education
Boaler, Jo – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In this paper I will explore three contrasting teaching and learning environments, including one in which students engage in a "dance of agency". I will move from a consideration of classroom practices to a contention that our work as researchers of mathematics education should pay more attention to teaching practices. Further, that understanding…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Intermode Differences
Lollis, Sylvia R. – 1996
A practicum was designed to increase the number of primary teachers who possess a more current reading and writing philosophy and would implement theory-driven teaching practices. The problem addressed in the practicum was that primary reading and writing instruction did not reflect current research, theory, and practices. Many classroom teachers…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Emergent Literacy, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Lewis, Angela; And Others – 1995
Collaborative efforts between university methods courses and elementary classroom teachers provide laboratory experiences that facilitate preservice teachers understanding of thematic instructional approaches to teaching elementary science and social studies. Preservice teachers in these field-based programs learn to apply the theories to which…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Methods Courses
Nagel, Nancy; Driscoll, Amy – 1991
This study describes the field experience of teaching interns (n=6) who were enrolled in the Cooperative Professional Education Program (CPEP), an alternative education program at Portland State University (Oregon), and addresses the most significant influences in the learning process. The methods employed were observation of field experiences and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Influences
Gurney, Bruce – 1989
This paper proposed to apply the perspective of constructivism to the classroom setting. Secondary science teachers and university personnel jointly developed and experimented with a variety of constructivist teaching strategies. Data were collected in the form of teacher anecdotes, audio and videotapes of lessons and student interviews, teacher…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cognitive Development, Inservice Education, Instruction
Jesus, Saul Neves de; Paixao, Maria Paula – 1996
Entrance into the teaching profession is often a situation of disappointment or "reality shock." As shown by previous researchers, teacher burnout is higher in the beginning of the career. Among the causes are inadequate initial teacher training and the lack of initial motivation. In order to study this phenomenon, the transition of 214…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers, Career Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Fortune, Ron – ADE Bulletin, 1987
Focuses on the need for improved teaching at the secondary and college levels of the English curriculum, emphasizing the view of learning that also includes the development of thinking abilities capable of helping students use information to create their own insights. Reviews recent pedagogical guides that follow this approach. (NKA)
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English Instruction, English Literature, English Teacher Education
Coldron, John; Smith, Robin – 1995
This paper explores the concept of reflection and reflective practice in teacher education. Teaching is a complex achievement that brings together a number of conceptual, practical, and physical resources in an individual's professional practice. Achievement in teaching is an amalgam of at least four different discourses--science, craft, art, and…
Descriptors: Discrimination Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Foreign Countries
Kasten, Barbara; Write, June – 1996
The use of collaborative case studies is an important tool for promoting teacher development, providing preservice teachers with opportunities to apply what they have learned in a real life context. This paper describes the design and evolution of a unique application of case study methodology by two early childhood/elementary education professors…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
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