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Technology Familiarization to Preservice Teachers: Factors that Influence Teacher Educators' Technology Decisions
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Kalonde, Gilbert; Mousa, Rabab – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that influence teacher educators' technology decisions in methods courses. Research has shown various reasons why teachers use different types of technologies and not able to integrate certain technologies. However, this study focused on the source of teachers' instructional technology…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Technology Integration, Technology Uses in Education, Methods Courses
Constructing English: Pre-Service ELA Teachers Navigating an Unwieldy Discipline
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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
Purpose as Content and Pedagogy: Rationale-Development as a Core Theme of Social Studies Teacher Education
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Hawley, Todd – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2012
Grounded in a belief in the transformative possibilities of social studies teacher education, I present an argument for considering the development of purpose as both content and pedagogy of social studies teacher education. As part of developing a coherent pedagogy of rationale-based social studies teacher education, I begin by exploring the…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Decision Making behind the Use of Metacognitive Pedagogy within Education Methodology Coursework: An Exploratory Case Study
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Stokes, Andria Hilvitz – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Recent Department of Education Reports identify a need for changes in pre-service teacher education to help close the continuance of the achievement gap. The purpose of this qualitative study is to identify the professor decision making about metacognitive pedagogical theory within preparation of preservice education programs. The study included…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Decision Making, Teacher Educators, Metacognition
Development of a Decision-Making Model for Designing a Methods Course for Prospective Secondary Science Teachers: A Delphi Study.
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Crawley, Frank E.; dos Santos Silva, Maria Virginia – 1980
Presented are the results of a Delphi study designed to determine the objectives of secondary science methods courses and the concerns of the professors who plan them. The results present, in the order of importance, the three following concerns: (1) planning one or more science lessons, (2) constructing a classroom evaluation scheme, and (3)…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Research, Higher Education, Methods Courses
A Case Study of Secondary Student Teachers' Curriculum Decisions.
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Pape, Sharon L. – Action in Teacher Education, 1993
A case study of student teachers in a rural high school indicated that curriculum decisions by student teachers are influenced by supervision practices of the cooperating teacher; both the student teachers' and the cooperating teachers' perception of the student teacher's role; cautions from methods instructors; and existing curriculum and texts.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cooperating Teachers, Curriculum Development, Decision Making