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Danielowich, Robert M. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2012
This study used identity as a framework to understand how preservice science teachers develop the reform-minded ideas inherent in science-specific reforms. Six participants systematically reflected about their reform-based and field lessons taught during a methods course and field lessons taught during student teaching. Patterns in their…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Brown, Kathleen Taylor – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2011
Blending activity theory and community-based research educational applications describes the praxis achieved through the initial design, development, implementation, and assessment of one research methods course as a pedagogy to enhance and improve the outcomes of civic and community engagement for the university, its students, and the community.…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Research Methodology
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Kucan, Linda – Reading Psychology, 2009
Although text-based discussions are considered by many literacy researchers and educators to be optimal contexts for teaching students how to comprehend text, a discussion is an ill-structured instructional space with complicated demands. A challenge for teacher educators is to acknowledge this complexity and provide ways for teachers to learn how…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Reflective Teaching, Masters Degrees
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Garbett, Dawn – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Constructivism posits that the teacher's role is to help their students to actively construct new understanding for themselves. Diagnosis of students' prior understanding followed by carefully planned teaching sequences enables learners to grasp hitherto unknown concepts. Assessing whether they can then apply their new knowledge in new contexts…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Science Teachers
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Miller, S. J. – English Education, 2008
A critical reflection of the efficacy of my teaching and the pedagogies I embody is potentially important because under the continual threat of "No Child Left Behind" and some research that may devalue qualitative research, I want to support my students in their efforts, while offering them a well-rounded understanding of different pedagogies and…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Qualitative Research, Speech Communication, Teaching Experience
Fortney, Brian Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigates how preservice teachers make sense of student-centered instruction with existing traditional beliefs about teaching. Teacher educators assume that university instruction translates directly into practice, yet, research is clear that beginning teachers revert to traditional teaching practice. For elementary teachers, one…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Preservice Teacher Education
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Stockero, Shari L. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2008
Although video cases are increasingly being used in teacher education as a means of situating learning and developing habits of reflection, there has been little evidence of the outcomes of such use. This study investigates the effects of using a coherent video-case curriculum in a university mathematics methods course by addressing two issues:…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Mathematics Teachers, Reflective Teaching
Keeler, Christy G. – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2008
Reporting on the results of an action research study, this manuscript provides examples of strategies used to integrate technology into a content methods course. The study used reflective teaching of a social studies methods course at a major Southwestern university in 10 course sections over a four-semester period. In alignment with the research…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Mewborn, Denise S.; Stinson, David W. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background: Although preservice teachers bring well-established views of teaching to their teacher education programs, Tabachnick and Zeichner (1984) claimed that it is possible to amend preservice teachers' views. They portrayed the learning of teachers as a negotiated and interactive process rather than as one that is predetermined by teachers'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Research Design, Methods Courses
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Timmerman, Maria A. – School Science and Mathematics, 2003
To meet the need for reform in mathematics teacher preparation courses, two cycles of changes made in an elementary mathematics methods course are presented. Using action research, teaching approaches were developed, implemented, and evaluated as a meaningful way to continue my professional development. Results suggested that I improved my…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Action Research
Shealy, Barry E. – 1993
This paper describes mathematical modeling activities from a secondary mathematics teacher education course taken by fourth-year university students. Experiences with mathematical modeling are viewed as important in helping teachers develop a more intuitive understanding of mathematics, generate and evaluate mathematical interpretations, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Activities, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Models
Rasch, Katharine; And Others – 1992
Maryville University (Missouri) believes in training competent beginning teachers who understand that all children can learn. Regarding mathematics, prospective teachers must often be convinced they can learn it themselves. Because most students do not have much math preparation, do not like it, and have great misconceptions, Maryville assumes…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Huber-Bowen, Tonya – 1993
Restructured schools should be centers of inquiry and reflection, not of unexamined tradition; curriculum and instruction courses in teacher education programs should facilitate critical inquiry and reflection. A graduate level curriculum models course at the Wichita (Kansas) State University was restructured around the basic tenet of critical…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Elementary Secondary Education, High Risk Students, Higher Education
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Rozansky-Lloyd, Carol – Journal of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
Preservice elementary teachers enrolled in a reading methods course learn how literacy instruction is a political act that can affect children's opportunities. Through discussions and readings, they learn how the ways in which they teach reading to children make a difference in their subsequent access to knowledge. Through a practicum experience…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, White Students, Middle Class, Preservice Teacher Education