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Ding, Cody; Song, Kim – New Horizons in Education, 2007
Background: Current education reform in the U.S. requires teacher preparation programs to educate the "teachers-to-be" according to the certification standards set forth by the state. So far, there are few empirical studies that directly investigate whether students perceive themselves to be well prepared with respect to the standards, although…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Student Attitudes, Multidimensional Scaling
Little, Timothy H. – 1984
A policy decision taken at Michigan State's College of Education profoundly changed the nature and orientation of the elementary social studies methods courses taught. It was decided that the college would move from a relatively monolithic program to offering incoming students a choice of alternate programmatic routes to certification.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, Educational Innovation, Methods Courses

Doty, Luellen; Hillman, Carole – International Journal of Social Education, 2000
Describes the development of the Teacher Technology Portfolio Program at Elmhurst College in Chicago, Illinois, that integrates instruction on technology and modeling of instruction in technology into the teacher training programs. Discusses the evaluation and revision of the program and its current status. (CMK)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Methods Courses, Portfolios (Background Materials), Preservice Teacher Education

Rowley-Rotunno, Virginia – Social Studies, 1976
Describes and evaluates an environmental studies student teacher program, Project LEAP, (Learning Environment, Achievement, and Performance), which is designed to emphasize action learning through selected field experiences of an interdisciplinary nature. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
DUFFY, GERALD G.; PUTT, ROBERT C. – 1967
TO DETERMINE WHETHER COLLEGE PROFESSORS CAN USE THE CLINICAL PROFESSOR APPROACH IN TEACHING METHODS CLASSES, TWO INSTRUCTORS AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE IN FREDONIA, NEW YORK, TAUGHT SOCIAL STUDIES EACH DAY TO A SPECIFIC GROUP OF SIXTH GRADE CHILDREN IN THE COLLEGE CAMPUS SCHOOL. THEY CONCURRENTLY TAUGHT A METHODS COURSE IN THE TEACHING OF…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Cooperating Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Methods Courses

Yon, Maria; Passe, Jeff – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1994
A longitudinal study examined the content and goals of an undergraduate social studies methods course and compared course perspectives to a teacher's perspectives as she progressed through the course, through student teaching, and into beginning teaching. Results highlight many issues related to methods courses and teacher induction. (SM)
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Methods Courses

Johnston, Marilyn – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1990
Presents a case study involving two teaching certification students. Examines how a social studies methods course and a one-year elementary school postbaccalaureate teacher education program influenced students' educational beliefs and practices. Finds influences are partial, differential, and interactive with students' backgrounds and…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Case Studies, Educational Philosophy, Educational Research
Central Connecticut State Coll., New Britain. Regional Center for the Improvement of Instruction in Elementary Social Studies. – 1970
The purpose of the Regional Center's 15 month project was to strengthen the professional training of teachers, improve elementary social studies instruction, provide for the successful implementation of new social studies curricula (Man: A Course of Study), and to create a setting for research in problems of teacher training and curriculum…
Descriptors: Consultants, Diffusion, Elementary Education, Information Dissemination
Buffie, Edward G. – 1968
Section 1 of this report reviews the background planning and basic program components of the elementary division acroclinical semester, a 16-credit hour accelerated program designed to correlate instruction in professional methodology with the psychology of learning and student teaching. Section 2 details more fully the scheduling of the 9-member…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Course Content, Educational Media, Educational Psychology