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Moriah McCowan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The evolution of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) pedagogy into the public school system has been an initiative since the 1970s. This has failed timelessly because of the lack of professional development and framework for teaching this curriculum. Participants understood that STEM is an important concept for their students.…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, STEM Education, Suburban Schools, Administrator Attitudes
Christina Carnovale – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine secondary preservice teachers' sense of self-efficacy in ELL student instruction. The researcher administered an adapted version of the Teacher Sense of Self-Efficacy (TSES) survey created by Tschannen-Moran and Woolfolk Hoy in 2001, to a sample population of preservice teachers. The survey…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Student Relationship, Self Concept Measures
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Kolomitro, Klodiana; MacKenzie, Leslie W.; Wiercigroch, David; Godden, Lorraine – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to describe the design and evolution of a unique and successful Master of Science program in anatomical sciences at one Canadian post-secondary institution and to evaluate its long-term impact on student learning. This program prepares students to teach anatomy and design curricula in the anatomical sciences and is…
Descriptors: Program Design, Program Evaluation, Masters Programs, Anatomy
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Valente, José Armando; de Almeida, Maria Elizabeth Bianconcini – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Brazilian initiatives aimed at the insertion of information and communication technologies (ICT) in K-12 education took their first steps in the 1970s, when several countries focused their efforts on the use of ICT in the educational context. Since the early 1980s, a number of public policies have been created that have given rise to various…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Program Descriptions, Information Science Education, Foreign Countries
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Tal, Tali; Peled, Einat – Environmental Education Research, 2017
In this study, our aim was to understand how environmental education has been implemented in Israeli elementary schools. We selected ten schools that had implemented Education for Sustainability programs and analyzed their mission statements and curriculum documents. We observed each school's activities and interviewed teachers. Our analysis shows…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Semi Structured Interviews, Curriculum Development
Kilde, Josephine – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Teachers in rural Native American Pueblo schools in New Mexico lack professional development opportunities due to the long distances between the Pueblos and academic institutions. Previously, most schools received "hit and run" professional development sessions conducted once or twice a year that did not address the real issues faced by…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, American Indian Students, American Indian Education, Rural Schools
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Tynan, Richard; Mallaburn, Andrea; Jones, Robert Bryn; Clays, Ken – School Science Review, 2014
During extended subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses, graduates without chemistry or physics bachelor degrees prepared to enter a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) programme to become chemistry or physics teachers. Data were gathered from the exit survey returned by Liverpool John Moores University SKE students about to start…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Science Teachers
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2012
An external panel that includes several prominent critics of teacher education has been tapped to craft the performance standards for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP), the new organization's leaders announced last week. Among the standards under consideration: how programs ensure that candidates know their content;…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Certification, Performance, Standards
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Kelcey, Ben; Spybrook, Jessaca; Zhang, Jiaqi; Phelps, Geoffrey; Jones, Nathan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
With research indicating substantial differences among teachers in terms of their effectiveness (Nye, Konstantopoulous, & Hedges, 2004), a major focus of recent research in education has been on improving teacher quality through professional development (Desimone, 2009; Institute of Educations Sciences [IES], 2012; Measures of Effective…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Faculty Development, Program Design, Educational Research
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2011
For the thirty-fourth year, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, FL. A limited quantity of these Proceedings were printed and sold in both hardcopy and electronic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research and Development, Educational Technology, Conference Papers