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Hughes, Joan E.; Packard, Becky Wai-Ling; Pearson, P. David – 1997
A study examined how the "Reading Classroom Explorer" (RCE, a hypermedia learning environment) might enhance the learning of preservice teacher education students as they prepare to assume internships. RCE is a searchable database of digitized video clips from the Center for the Study of Reading's video series "Exemplary Ways To Teach Reading."…
Descriptors: Diversity (Student), Higher Education, Hypermedia, Methods Courses
Download full textRoos, Marie C.; And Others – 1993
A study tested the usefulness of the Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP) in terms of its accuracy in measuring preservice teachers' change in theoretical orientation to reading as a result of having taken a reading methods course. Subjects, 27 upper division elementary education majors (the experimental group) and 15 upper division…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness, Introductory Courses
Kanel, Sylvia; Anthony, Marlene – 1994
Professors in a Communication Arts methods course for preservice and inservice elementary school teachers sought to move the content of the language arts curriculum from a direct instruction to a whole language model. A transformation came about as one professor realized that her efforts to enthusiastically convey the importance of authentic…
Descriptors: College Instruction, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Karnowski, Lee; Krey, DeAn – Journal of the Wisconsin State Reading Association, 1991
Describes the reorganization of teacher education methods courses at University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Lists whole language tenets, large group session topics, and sample integrations for prekindergarten through middle school grades. Asserts that the experience demonstrated the benefits of the whole language philosophy. (PRA)
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Higher Education
Sturtevant, Elizabeth G., Ed.; Linek, Wayne M., Ed. – 1994
This 1994 yearbook presents 24 papers and a summary of the dissertation award winner "Overcoming Misconceptions about Science Beliefs" (G. Qian). Papers are: "The Roots of Reading: Preserving the Heritage of a Profession" (N. A. Stahl and others; "CRA Professional Programs and Progress: A Personal Twenty-Five Year Perspective" (James E. Walker);…
Descriptors: Adults, Classroom Research, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
PDF pending restorationRichards, Patricia O. – 1996
This paper describes the development of a course that would improve instruction for preservice teachers and for elementary school students through "real world" integration of reading and the related processes of listening, speaking, and writing. "Integrated Language Arts Instruction in the Elementary School" is presented as a model for field-based…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Field Experience Programs
Terry, Robert M., Ed. – 1995
Papers on aspects of second language teaching include: "Cognitive Approaches to Listening Comprehension" (James S. Noblitt); "Popular Music in a Whole Language Approach to Foreign Language Teaching" (Sue Barry, Sidney Pellissier); "Language Maintenance: Bridging the Gaps in Foreign Language Education" (Jean W. LeLoup,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Instructional Materials
