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Barrow, Elizabeth C. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2023
My biggest fear about teaching a social studies methods class with COVID restrictions was talking "at" my teacher candidates and not modeling interactive and engaging social studies education. Social studies education should be engaging and student-centered. In this article, I offer technological adaptations to lessons that center around…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Social Studies, Educational Technology, Methods Courses
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Kinskey, Melanie; Callahan, Brendan E. – Research in Science Education, 2022
Two common reasons elementary preservice teachers have low self-efficacy with science teaching is their lack of content knowledge and past negative experiences with science teaching or learning. Holding low self-efficacy beliefs has negative impacts on both the method of science instruction and amount of science instruction delivered in the…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Self Efficacy, Measures (Individuals), Elementary School Teachers
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Tyminski, Andrew M.; Brittain, McKenzie – The Mathematics Educator, 2022
This paper presents research that exists at the crossroad of scholarly practice and scholarly inquiry. We outline the process in the design, enactment, and empirical examination of an elementary methods course activity, Exploring and Supporting Student Thinking (ESST), which engaged 18 elementary prospective teachers (PTs) in two sessions of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Roseline Nyaboke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Scientific modeling is a scientific practice that uses models to prepare elementary and middle school science teachers to engage students using scientific inquiry. Model-based inquiry (MBI) is a pedagogical teaching approach that engages students using scientific inquiry during scientific modeling. However, preservice teachers lack understanding…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Asim, Sumreen; Ellis, Joshua; Slykhuis, David; Trumble, Jason – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2022
The science teacher education community plays a prominent role in teacher preparation programs. Particularly, science methods courses emphasize modeling instructional strategies to promote inquiry-based practices. Integrating appropriate educational technology to enhance and support classroom practices should be embedded in these courses. The…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Technology Integration, Models, Teaching Methods
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Richardson, Greer M.; Byrne, Laurel L.; Liang, Ling L. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2018
Recognizing that teaching efficacy beliefs influence pedagogical content knowledge, this study assesses the impact of a general methods course on preservice teachers' efficacy beliefs and instructional planning of environmental education content. The course used explicit and visible strategies to support pedagogical and content knowledge…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Beliefs, Self Efficacy
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Akerson, Valarie L.; Avsar Erumit, Banu; Elcan Kaynak, Naime – International Journal of Science Education, 2019
This study incorporated Nature of Science (NOS) within children's literature in a science methods course to aid preservice early childhood teachers in improving their NOS understandings and abilities to transfer NOS into formats accessible to early childhood students. Through a qualitative research design, researchers collected data including pre…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Early Childhood Education, Preservice Teacher Education
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Tyminski, Andrew M.; Brittain, McKenzie H. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
This paper represents research that exists at the crossroad of scholarly practice and scholarly inquiry. We share the design, enactment and empirical examination of an elementary methods course activity, Exploring and Supporting Student Thinking (ESST) which engaged 18 prospective teachers in two sessions of one on one problem posing with 3rd…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Educational Practices, Interaction, Elementary School Mathematics
Lewis, Amy D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The development of scientifically literate citizens begins in the elementary school. Yet elementary school teachers are ill prepared to teach science (Trygstad, Smith, Banilower, Nelson, & Horizon Research, Inc., 2013). The research base on teacher preparation finds that programs designed to prepare elementary teachers are inadequate in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mixed Methods Research
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Enugu, Ramya; Hokayem, Hayat – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
This study examined the challenges that pre-service teachers faced when implementing inquiry and their perspective on how to overcome them. The data sample was 55 pre-service teachers (PSTs) enrolled into two sections of a science methods course in a private university in North Texas. The data sources consisted of inquiry-based lesson plans, PST…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Program Implementation, Inquiry, Teaching Models
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Koomen, Michele Hollingsworth – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2016
This meta-analysis reports on the use of practitioner inquiry (PI) with early program teacher candidates in conjunction with elementary science and math methods courses using cognitive load theory as a theoretical framework. The findings suggest that the teacher candidates enhanced their knowledge of practice within practice across 5 dimensions of…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Meta Analysis, Methods Courses, Cognitive Processes
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Lewis, Elizabeth; Dema, Oxana; Harshbarger, Dena – School Science and Mathematics, 2014
Despite historical national efforts to improve elementary science education, science instruction continues to be marginalized, varying by state. This study was designed to address the ongoing challenge of educating elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) to teach science. Elementary PSTs are one of the science education community's major links…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Instruction, Classroom Communication
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Savard, Annie – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2014
This article presents a study done in an elementary mathematics methods course that focused on the transition of novice teachers' epistemological stances: former elementary student, university student, and teacher stances. In order to help them develop the teacher stance, we designed a three-phase activity, where two phases took place inside…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teaching Skills, Novices, Learning Activities
Johnson, Cathy M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation research examines a teacher educator's instructional practices and preservice teachers' learning in two elementary social studies methods courses. As self-study, it focuses on learning to teach preservice teachers how to select and use visual images to teacher history and social studies. The research uses the Grossman Framework…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education
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Smith, Antony T.; Place, Nancy A. – New Educator, 2011
This study describes a teacher certification literacy methods course taught in an elementary school setting and featuring a classroom practicum, integrated with course sessions, that focuses on work with individual children. It examines the influence of an inquiry approach, promoted in this course model, on teacher candidate development. Drawn…
Descriptors: Practicums, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Teacher Effectiveness
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