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Menon, Deepika; Azam, Saiqa – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate preservice elementary teachers' science teacher identity development during their participation in the field-based science methods course and a year after. Grounded within the Feiman-Nemser's thematic framework of learning to teach, this study utilized a case study approach aimed to examine…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Cross Cultural Studies, Preservice Teacher Education
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Pace, Judith L. – Democracy & Education, 2022
Worldwide crises, including a global pandemic, have exposed deep divisions, democracy's fragility, and humanity's vulnerability. Educators are called upon to help students grapple with these crises and strengthen democracy through teaching controversial issues. How can teachers be prepared for this highly demanding, often avoided set of practices,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Preservice Teachers, Case Studies
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Hadar, Linor L.; Alpert, Bracha; Ariav, Tamar – Prospects, 2021
This case study explores how teacher education curriculum in a college in Israel responded to the COVID-19 outbreak. The article focuses on the clinical component of the preservice curriculum (practice teaching and methods courses). It reveals that curriculum became malleable in two major ways: there was (1) a shift to learner-centered well-being…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Centered Learning, Well Being
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Wilson, Lisa – Journal of Dance Education, 2016
This article focuses on Lisa Wilson's recent teaching experiences at the School of Dance, University of Cape Town (UCT), where dance pedagogy courses are established curricular components of its two undergraduate programs, the three-year Diploma in Dance Education (DipEd) and the four-year Bachelor of Music (BMus) degree in dance. The DipEd…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Undergraduate Study
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Straková, Zuzana; Cimermanová, Ivana – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2018
A technology supported environment in the educational context has been identified as a useful work space with the potential to deepen the learning experience. This study focuses on ways of using it for the development of reflection as a key teaching competence within initial teacher training. It is based on the premise that enriched reflection…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Reflection, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
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Barahona, Malba; Davin, Kristin J. – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2021
The international trend towards a practice-based approach in teacher education has permeated foreign language teacher education and English language teaching. A practice-based approach is based on the understanding that teachers learn to teach a language by engaging in "actual" teaching rather than "talking" about teaching. We…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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McIntosh, Janet – Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 2017
The purpose of this action research project was to explore whether a reflective writing strategy, developed and used with pre-service teachers in a literacy methods course, assisted them with integrating theory and practice. The teacher educator analyzed the written reflective pieces and determined common categories. Study findings revealed some…
Descriptors: Reflection, Preservice Teachers, Writing Strategies, Theory Practice Relationship
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Yalcin-Celik, Ayse; Kadayifci, Hakki; Uner, Sinem; Turan-Oluk, Nurcan – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This study examines the challenges faced by pre-service chemistry teachers teaching in a laboratory and their proposed solutions to these challenges. The study was conducted in a 13-week-long methodology course. Written statements from participants and observations from researchers were used as data sources. From these data, it was found that the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Chemistry, Barriers, Laboratory Experiments
McAllister, Deborah A., Ed. – Online Submission, 2018
As a part of the teacher licensure program at the graduate level at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), the M.Ed. licensure candidate is required to complete an action research project during a 3-semester-hour course that coincides with the 9-semester-hour student teaching experience or with school employment. This course, Education…
Descriptors: Action Research, Educational Research, Teacher Certification, Graduate Students
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Youngs, Peter; Qian, Hong – Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
In this article, we draw on survey data to investigate associations between Chinese elementary teaching candidates’ mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT) and their experiences in mathematics courses, mathematics methods courses, and student teaching. In our study, we found that (a) Chinese teaching candidates' completion of courses in number…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Learning Experience, Foreign Countries
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Taylor, Alexis – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
This study aims to provide some clarity about how learning to teach is understood by university teacher educators, mentors and students. Initial teacher education (ITE) in England is subject to central government legislation but without prescription for local implementation. Semi-structured interview data was collected from key partners in a local…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Foreign Countries, Teacher Educators, Mentors
Wresch, William – Computing Teacher, 1987
Reports results of survey of teacher training institutions in the United States and Canada to determine training that prospective English teachers receive in the educational uses of computers. Highlights include the use of computers in English methods courses, attitudes of faculty toward computers, and use of computers in schools where student…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Developed Nations, English Teacher Education, Foreign Countries
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Westgate, David – British Journal of Language Teaching, 1988
Considers individual and professional assumptions about teaching and discusses the relationship between methods courses and actual student teacher (ST) performance. Transcripts of ST performance from videorecordings are used to analyze behavior of STs and pupils in class and can be used as references in a methods class. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, French, Language Teachers, Methods Courses
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Schoen, Lida; Weishet, Egbert; Kennedy, Declan – Science Education International, 2007
Science Across the World is an exchange programme between schools world-wide. It has two main components: existing resources for students (age 6-10) and a database with all participating schools. The programme exists since 1990. It is carried out in partnership with the British Association of Science Education (ASE) and international…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Educational Resources, Databases, International Programs
Norris, Joe, Comp.; McCammon, Laura, Comp. – 1996
This dramatic reading was created from the questions generated by a class of drama education majors at the University of Alberta (Canada) and is used to describe a case study assignment approach to teacher education in drama. Education in a democratic society is underpinned with the willingness to listen. The mythology which claims that the gulf…
Descriptors: Art Education, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Case Studies, Dramatic Play
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