Designed to provide teacher-trainees with practice before entering a real classroom, a microcomputer-based simulation of classroom interaction became a key component in the curriculum of two introductory methods courses offered at the University of Virginia. Twenty-two participants used IBM-PC equipment to complete two skill modules. Each module…

Four full days of classroom instruction, devoted to the modeling of effective curriculum integration, were designed for preservice elementary school teachers. The unit was the result of a conviction on the part of teacher educators that children learn best when learning is not separated into forty-minute periods of math, social studies, language…

College English departments and methods courses share responsibility for the conventional nature of supposedly innovative high school English elective programs. (JH)

A report on an intensive training program on language laboratory use for English teachers in Israel. The course devotes itself to "problems and principals": lab conditions, drills, testing, etc., to "materials": speaking, structure, etc. and to a technical workshop: recording, editing, etc. (SC)

College and inservice courses can prepare teachers to accept and value other cultures, but they can do little to make individuals multicultural in fact. (JH)

The study was designed to assess the effects of three different instructional strategies of teaching science methods on selected attitudes and perceptions held by 30 prospective elementary school teachers, as well as the effects of these instructional strategies on children's perceptions of teacher behavior variables of warmth, demand and…

Seminars designed as a guide for teachers who meet together regularly while teaching the intermediate grade course Man: A Course of Study are presented in this book. The seminar series provides a framework for the course itself, including opportunities for teachers to explore classroom concepts and materials and offering a structure for examining…

There is no set curriculum for language teacher training, not even a list of desirable personal characteristics to be developed. A course in methodology should, therefore, be treated as an apprenticeship. (MLA)

A 3-year study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of laboratory and lecture strategies in a course for prospective elementary teachers on the structure of the number system. Results showed that neither strategy was superior to the other as judged by students' examination achievement, attitudes towards mathematics, student teaching…

Micro-peer teaching is an important step in preservice teacher education at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. A three-lesson sequence used in a secondary methods course for physical education teachers is outlined. (PP)

This landmark volume presents the work of the American Educational Research Association's Panel on Research and Teacher Education. It represents a systematic effort to apply a common set of scholarly lenses to a range of important topics in teacher education. The Panel's charge was twofold: (1) to create for the larger educational research…

This study investigates the social studies teaching practices of sixty-seven elementary teachers who are part of an alternative master's degree program in New York City. The respondents' program emphasizes constructivist and inquiry based teaching practices in its social studies methods courses. The findings are from an exit survey that was…

One of the challenges faced in teacher education is how to teach preservice teachers about complex topics, especially those that involve the roles of the teacher and students relative to one another and to what is being studied. This paper describes a secondary science methods course and presents activities from the course which allow teachers to…

Discusses the characteristics, especially field experience involved, of an elementary science teacher education program, and indicates supportive feedback from students enrolling in this methods course. (CC)

Swimming teachers must analyze their students' strokes for errors and provide constructive feedback. To do this requires mastering complex movement analysis techniques and feedback methods. An aquatics instructional methods course at Florida State University made use of strategies to develop these competencies. (PP)