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The Supervisor Effect: A Note on Teaching Field Methods
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Rasch, Elisabet Dueholm; Cremers, Gijs; Simon Thomas, Marc; Verschuuren, Bas – Teaching Sociology, 2022
In this article we reflect on our experiences as supervisors in a field methods course in order to explore how ethnographic research practices can be used as tools in the supervision of students that conduct field research for the first time and as such to provide insights about what constitutes "good supervision." Our reflections follow…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Field Experience Programs, Methods Courses, Research Methodology
Investigating Preservice Teachers' Science Teaching Self-Efficacy: An Analysis of Reflective Practices
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Menon, Deepika; Azam, Saiqa – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
The purpose of this mixed methods research was to investigate the development of 55 preservice elementary teachers' science teaching self-efficacy beliefs through analysis of their reflective practices in a science method course. This year-long study was conducted at two public universities located in the USA and Canada. Within the theoretical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Elementary School Science
Examining Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers' Beliefs of TPACK during a Method Course and Field Experience
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Kartal, Büsra; Çinar, Cengiz – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
The aim of this study is to investigate how and why elementary mathematics preservice teachers' (PSTs) beliefs about TPACK changed during a method course and field experience. Six PSTs were selected purposefully with reference to their different technological and mathematical backgrounds. Participants were interviewed five times (beginning of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Teachers, Technological Literacy
Trainee Primary Teachers' Beliefs and Practices about Physical Education during Student Teaching
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Tsangaridou, Niki – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2008
Background: In exploring the complexity of teaching, scholars have suggested that greater attention needs to be paid to the teachers' thoughts and actions and to how these affect quality teaching. Up to today, very few studies have investigated the relationship between teachers' beliefs and practices even though it has an important role to play in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Methods Courses, Teacher Effectiveness, Field Experience Programs
Mathematics Teacher Education Project: Working with Students.
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Selkirk, K. E. – Journal of Education for Teaching, 1982
Experience with materials developed by the Mathematics Teacher Education Project has shown that these resources of teaching methods and suggestions can be used to assist student teachers in their first field experience and in the final term as a means to coalesce and focus on specific teaching strategies. (FG)
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Mathematics Anxiety
A High Intensity Social Studies Program in a Clinical Setting for Teacher Education Students.
Dibella, Maria F.; Fitzgerald, John D. – 1982
A social studies elementary teacher education program at Phillips Institute of Technology in Australia is described. The program, which places students in charge of teaching a 9-week social studies unit, is recommended as an alternative to the conventional lecture method. The paper is divided into discussion of five aspects of the course:…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum Enrichment, Elementary Education, Field Experience Programs