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McLean, Cheryl A.; Rowsell, Jennifer – Teaching Education, 2013
The article features a graduate literacy teacher education course that compelled students to think in terms of design and multimodality. In an effort to innovate our own literacy teacher education work, we came together to devise a course that encouraged students to adopt a design lens to their thinking, planning, and assessing of literacy…
Descriptors: Literacy, Teacher Education, Learning Processes, Multiple Literacies
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Gay, Richard – AILACTE Journal, 2011
For the past sixteen years, the Five Dimensions of Multicultural Education, as proposed by James A. Banks (1995), have been accepted in many circles as the primary conceptual framework used in teaching multicultural education courses: content integration, the knowledge construction process, prejudice reduction, an equity pedagogy and an empowering…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Education Courses, Multicultural Education, Course Content
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Blackwell, Sarah; Pepper, Kaye – Journal of Effective Teaching, 2008
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of using concept mapping to promote reflective instructional decision-making among junior level education preservice teachers when planning lessons for elementary and secondary students. The researchers were interested in determining if there was a connection between the use of concept mapping…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Preservice Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Decision Making
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Markowitz, Dina G.; DuPre, Michael J. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2007
The University of Rochester's Graduate Experience in Science Education (GESE) course familiarizes biomedical science graduate students interested in pursuing academic career tracks with a fundamental understanding of some of the theory, principles, and concepts of science education. This one-semester elective course provides graduate students with…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Elective Courses, Education Courses, Biomedicine
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Schrum, Lynne; Burbank, Mary D.; Capps, Rosemary – Internet and Higher Education, 2007
This study provides an example of one institution's efforts to design coursework that meets the simultaneous challenges of supporting the aims of increasing access to online courses and simultaneously better preparing teachers to work in diverse classrooms. Based on online pre- and post-surveys and monthly open-ended writing prompts administered…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Online Courses, Student Motivation, Conventional Instruction
Holland, James G.; And Others – 1974
A course was designed to teach the use of learning principles in the development of teaching materials reflecting the best in the present state of the "theory of instruction." Based on Keller's Personalized Instruction System, the course aimed to establish in students a working knowledge of behavioral principles, the ability to…
Descriptors: College Students, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Course Organization
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Taylor, Verushka – Education in Rural Australia, 2005
As part of her Graduate Diploma in Secondary Education course, Verushka Taylor was asked to imagine how issues the Social Contexts of Secondary Education class was reading about and discussing impact upon the work of teachers. To that end, students were asked to think deeply about one of the topics addressed in the semester, and to frame a…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Professional Development, Educational Change, Secondary Education