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Brittany M. Brewer; Joanne E. Marciano; Vaughn W. M. Watson; Saloshna Vandeyar – English in Education, 2025
This qualitative research study examines the perspectives of pre-service teachers (PSTs) in the US and South Africa as they learned about the "pedagogy of compassion" as a generative approach for supporting students in navigating issues of social justice in the context of English teaching and learning. We examine PSTs' work generated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Altruism, Caring
Reynolds, Todd – Studying Teacher Education, 2021
Five years after an initial self-study on my dialogic teaching practices in a teacher preparation course, I conducted a follow up study to see if I grew as a dialogic teacher in the same class. This article describes the a second self-study of my dialogic teaching practices in an English methods course, and compares findings with the initial…
Descriptors: Instructional Improvement, Teaching Methods, Dialogs (Language), Teacher Education Programs
Daniel E. Ferguson; Mark A. Lewis; Judith M. Dunkerly; Camille S. Talbert; Char A. Moffit; Sharon B. Hayes – New Educator, 2024
This paper explores how prospective teachers across five geographic and educational contexts constructed understandings of equity literacy within literacy methods courses. Artifacts of what equity "looks like" in prospective teachers' field placements in early childhood, elementary, and secondary literacy classrooms were analyzed from…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Equal Education, Literacy
Gonsalves, Allison J.; Sprowls, Emily Diane; Wiseman, Dawn – LEARNing Landscapes, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has required educators at all levels to pivot instruction online. In this article, we consider methods we adopted to engage novice science teachers in approximations of teaching, online. We describe the principles of our science teacher education program and provide a rationale for the core feature of our science teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beginning Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
Joanna C. Weaver; Tionge C. Matangula; Gabriel Matney – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2024
Purpose: This qualitative study extends jigsaw lesson study (JLS) by focusing specifically on the impact of feedback on teacher candidates' (TCs') professional knowledge and instructional growth in the teacher-educator classroom. Design/methodology/approach: For this study, JLS took place in two different methods courses and followed the lesson…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Collaboration, Communities of Practice
McEntyre, Kelsey; Richards, K. Andrew R. – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of a secondary physical education methods course and early field experience, supplemented with reflective discussions via Twitter, on subjective theories of physical education. The course was organized using recommendations from the occupational socialization theory literature. Participants…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Physical Education, Methods Courses, Socialization
Kim, Ji-Eun – Contributions to Music Education, 2020
This study was designed to explore differences between instrumental music teachers' comfort and self-perceived competence ratings based on their undergraduate choral methods curricular background and in-service choral teaching experiences, using a 7-point Likert scale, on 15 specific choral teaching skills presented through a researcher-developed…
Descriptors: Music Education, Music Teachers, Musical Instruments, Teaching Methods
Rodriguez, Terri L.; Bohn-Gettler, Catherine M.; Israelson, Madeleine H. – English Education, 2020
This case study of an English methods course examines how preservice teachers demonstrate knowledge, skills, and dispositions for social justice teaching. Qualitative analyses of participants' performances on two signature course assessments, micro-teaching and unit planning, show how opportunities to demonstrate socially just teaching practices…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Justice
Strickland, T. Hunter – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2020
In order to better understand how young adult literature (YAL) is used in secondary English teacher education, this study examines course syllabi submitted by researchers recently published in "The ALAN Review." Using a framework built on Bakhtin's work, this article analyzes course objectives and goals for inherent social discourses to…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Young Adults, Preservice Teacher Education, Secondary Education
Hodges, Michael; Phelps, Ashley; Knipe, Robert; Doherty, Brooke; Colburn, Jeff; Hamilton, Xiaofen D. – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2023
Public school secondary physical education needs support. One approach in assisting is to improve the next generation of preservice physical education teachers (PPETs). The purpose of the study was to explore PPET secondary physical education training through the secondary teaching methods course offered in two universities in the US. A total of…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Physical Education Teachers, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers
Kumar, Tracey – Multicultural Perspectives, 2018
Given changes in the U.S. school-age population, it is crucial that colleges of education prepare teacher candidates to work effectively with students from diverse backgrounds. Because diversity constitutes such a small portion of the curriculum in many teacher education programs, it is crucial that teacher educators find creative ways to…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Practices, Teacher Education Programs
Arbaugh, Fran; Graysay, Duane; Freeburn, Ben; Konuk, Nursen – Journal of Teacher Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to investigate changes in a cohort of secondary preservice teachers' (PSTs) vision of the role of a teacher within the context of a mathematics methods course designed around pedagogies of practice. We analyzed data collected in the first and last 2 weeks of the course, consisting of recordings of small- and…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
Buchanan, Jeffrey M. – CEA Forum, 2016
This article discusses ways literature is taught at the university. It describes a gap in the way English is often taught in literature programs and the way future teachers are taught to teach English to secondary students. It argues for teaching literature in ways that might be good for majors in both fields, ways that support the work valued by…
Descriptors: Literature, English Instruction, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education
Burrows, Andrea C.; Swarts, Gabriel P.; Hutchison, Linda; Katzmann, Jason M.; Thompson, Rod; Freeman, Lindsey; Schanke, Angela; Kilty, Trina; Reynolds, Todd – Education Sciences, 2021
This article explores technology's integration, assessment, and reflection within a single secondary education program at a Mountain West university. In light of the publication of the Teacher Education Technology Competencies (TETCs), faculty members of a secondary education program focused on existing practices and pathways for expansion to…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Educational Technology, Secondary Education, Technology Education
Legette, Roy M.; Royo, Johanna – Research Studies in Music Education, 2021
The purpose of this case study was to examine pre-service music teachers' perceptions of peer feedback from two different vantage points (giving and receiving). Music education majors (N = 4) enrolled in a choral music teaching methods course were asked to develop a series of lessons over a semester, teach them to their peers, and provide oral and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Singing, Music Education, Secondary Education