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Edward C. Nolan – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2025
Teacher questioning impacts the level of student thinking that occurs during mathematical instruction. It is important to investigate how questioning is developed in secondary mathematics methods classes so that these environments can support the development effective questioning strategies. This article explores how two preservice teachers use…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses
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Mi Yeon Lee; Ji-Eun Lee – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2025
The aim of this study was to examine how pre-service teachers performed in tasks related to three specific aspects of curricular noticing. The participants completed a two-part written task in which they solved three pattern generalization problems and sequenced them for teaching purposes. Inductive content analysis was used to analyze the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Problem Solving, Mathematics Curriculum
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Taiwo Jumoke Ogundapo; Kady Lane; Valarie Akerson – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2025
This study explores the science teacher identities of 35 elementary pre-service teachers enrolled in an elementary science methods course in the third year of their professional coursework. Using an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach, this research answered two research questions: How do pre-service teachers view themselves as science…
Descriptors: Science Teachers, Self Concept, Professional Identity, Elementary School Teachers
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Amy Ray; Julie Herron – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
In our mathematics methods courses for elementary preservice teachers, we work to uncover and confront students' understandings as well as misconceptions about important mathematical topics. Karp and colleagues' ("Teaching Children Mathematics", 21(1), 18-25) "13 Rules That Expire" article has been a useful resource for us to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Elementary School Teachers, Methods Courses
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Kaitlin E. Popielarz – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
In this paper, I share the process of designing, implementing, and analyzing a community-based methods course alongside youth organizers, adult allies, and teacher candidates (TCs) through a critical qualitative research project. Informed by intergenerational grassroots community organizations, community-based pedagogy is a praxis to center the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Social Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Social Justice
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Deborah McCarthy – Journal of Education, 2024
Accompanying a senior methods course, 19 teacher candidates at Southeastern Louisiana University participated in a semester-long social studies fifth grade mentorship at an International Baccalaureate World School. Teacher candidates identified factors they perceived to affect the success of the experiential learning experience through…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Elementary School Teachers, Social Studies, Methods Courses
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Claire Mowling; Josephine Prado – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2024
This article explores the integration of intercultural competence into one physical education teacher education (PETE) curriculum to address the increasing number of culturally and linguistically diverse children in physical education. Highlighting a potential lack of PETE student preparation, the article recommends adopting a framework based on…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Cultural Awareness, Teacher Competencies
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Christopher Sean Long – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2024
This study examined the impact of action research conducted by five science teaching methods course instructors on their students' perceptions of the classroom learning environments at a large public university in Texas. The study analyzed the results from 133 students who completed two administrations of the What is Happening in this Class…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, State Universities
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Amanda Benedict-Chambers; Carrie-Anne Sherwood – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2024
Designing and analyzing lesson plans is a ubiquitous practice in teacher education, and yet we know little about how preservice teachers (PSTs) notice elements of their lesson plans that afford opportunities for supporting equitable student sensemaking. We investigate how the use of a tool, a framework for supporting equitable sensemaking, guided…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Equal Education, Instructional Design, Scientific Research
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Ingrid S. Carter; Valarie L. Akerson – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
The purpose of this study was to explore an approach to an elementary science methods course that utilized a science notebook to physically distinguished multiple perspectives of science teaching and learning. We conceptualized teacher candidates' (TCs') thinking within a framework titled "Exploring Multiple Perspectives in the Methods…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses, Science Instruction
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Dong Zhang; Zhenyu Shi; Yafei Cheng – SAGE Open, 2024
The goal of this study was to predict the preservice physical education teachers' (PPETs) occupational socialization (OS) by their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and to investigate the relationship between them. The participants were 56 PPETs from a physical education teacher education (PETE) undergraduate program in the northeastern United…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Socialization
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Patricia L. Marshall; Jonee Wilson – Urban Education, 2025
Among the most urgent matters in contemporary education discourses are those that delve into the justice issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Colleges of Education are critical sites for such discourse. In particular, the teaching methods course is where candidates are to acquire tools to take up such issues. Success of justice…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Political Attitudes, Diversity, Equal Education
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Ayça K. Fackler; Ruth M. Harman – Science Education, 2025
Recent research has focused on innovative instructional shifts that aim to expand what constitutes science and engineering practices, exploring also how they can build on students' diverse language resources in science learning. However, few studies explore the intersections of elementary teacher preparation and the implementation of science and…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Research Universities
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Soraya Hamed; Ana Rivero – Educational Studies, 2024
The activities designed by 91 teams of primary teacher education students as part of their teaching proposals in a course on science teaching are analysed together with the subsequent reformulations of those activities. The objective of the study was to gain insight into the students' professional practical knowledge and the underlying focus of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction
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Danni Gilbert – Contributions to Music Education, 2025
The purpose of this exploratory, quantitative action research study was to determine whether methods coursework and practicum experiences influence pre-service music educators' self-efficacy towards teaching in secondary instrumental music settings. Junior music education students enrolled in an instrumental music methods course (n = 17) and in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Music Teachers, Music Education, Practicums
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