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Sokal, Laura; Woloshyn, Debra; Funk-Unrau, Savannah – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013
Sixty pre-service teachers were surveyed about their confidence, concerns, and efficacy for inclusive classroom teaching before and after a course on inclusive education. Some students experienced a practicum in an inclusive setting alongside the coursework, and some students did not. Both groups made significant gains in all dependent variables…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Classroom Techniques, Practicum Supervision, Teacher Supervision
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Wodlinger, Michael G. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1990
Reports study on use of critical-incident analysis and guided reflection with preservice teachers in one-year postdegree program. Single case study demonstrates how mentor-assisted analysis helps derive meaning from teaching practicum. Suggests value of guided-reflective journal writing as preservice teacher development exercise. (TES)
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Practicum Supervision
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Kirman, J. M.; Goldberg, J. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1979
According to cooperating teachers and a controlled evaluation, student teachers who were supervised by telephone conferencing did not demonstrate a lesser degree of teaching effectiveness, but they were not satisfied with the supervision procedure. Telephone conferencing would allow faculty to supervise a larger number of students from a central…
Descriptors: Conferences, Control Groups, Cooperating Teachers, Experimental Teaching
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Ralph, Edwin G. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1993
In contextual supervision (CS) (an adaptation of situational leadership), the student teacher's (supervisee's) level of confidence and competence determines level of supervisory support and task orientation. CS also encourages a global view of all contextual variables. Observation of 49 untrained pairs of practicum students and cooperating…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Cooperating Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Sanford, Kathy; Hopper, Tim – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2000
A case study examined a whole-school model for supervising preservice teachers. The model employs constructivist notions that in a social-cultural context a persons' knowledge is created, examined, and transformed rather than simply transmitted and absorbed. The role of university facilitators changed from monitoring to mentoring, enhancing…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Constructivism (Learning)
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Housego, B. E. J.; Grimmett, P. P. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1983
The dichotomy between two concerns of student teaching supervision (emphasis on interpersonal helping relationship versus task-oriented, performance-based approach) is examined. Suggests dichotomy is fallacious, presents a typology of approaches, maintains student teaching supervision is a teaching process calling for supervisor variability of…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Techniques, Competency Based Teacher Education, Helping Relationship