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Kati Macaluso; Cori McKenzie; Jennifer VanDerHeide; Michael Macaluso – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe a pedagogical innovation -- a matrix construction exercise -- intended to help pre-service teachers (PTs) navigate the multiple and oftentimes competing discourses that shape the school subject English Language Arts (ELA). Design/methodology/approach: To explore the various ways the PTs drew on the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English Teachers, English Instruction, Teacher Education Programs
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Schuster, Dwight – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2014
New accreditation standards for teacher preparation programs call for more seamless and effective connections between methods courses, clinical experiences, and school-based mentoring. Intentional clinical experiences and intermediate instructional strategies can foster collaboration between teacher preparation programs and teacher leaders in K-12…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Methods Courses, Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Monte-Sano, Chauncey – Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Given students' preconceptions of history as fixed information, cultivating students' interpretive and evidence-based thinking is foundational to advancing their disciplinary understanding. This study examines the ways in which preservice history teachers construct tasks that demand students' interpretive and evidence-based thinking and attend to…
Descriptors: History Instruction, Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses
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Harkness, Shelly Sheats; Wachenheim, Kimberly – Teacher Educator, 2008
The purpose of this teacher action research was twofold: to learn more about preservice teachers' preconceived notions related to listening and to investigate how a listening journal assignment impacted preservice teachers' views of listening as an important aspect of discourse. The participants were enrolled in a mathematics methods course for…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum