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Lyon, Edward G.; Stoddart, Trish; Bunch, George C.; Tolbert, Sara; Salinas, Ivan; Solis, Jorge – Science Education, 2018
This proof of concept study investigated a secondary science teacher preparation intervention in six university programs across Arizona, California, and Texas. Researchers and science method instructors (SMIs) collaboratively restructured respective science method courses to hold fidelity to an interrelated set of instructional practices that…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Science Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses
D'Souza, Lisa Andries – Middle School Journal, 2017
This examination of practice aims to share pedagogical practices, grounded in the research of teaching and learning, for building a community of learners in teacher education coursework. The pedagogical exploration supports explicit modeling of strategies to support teacher candidates in their mission to develop a community of learners in their…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Schmidt, Matthew; Fulton, Lori – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2017
Preparing students with 21st Century Skills through STEM related teaching is needed, especially at the elementary level. However, most teacher education preparation programs do not focus on STEM education. To provide an exemplary STEM unit, we transformed an inquiry-based unit on moon phases from a traditional science activity into a…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction
Bowers, Alex J. – Journal of Research on Leadership Education, 2017
The quantitative research methods course is a staple of graduate programs in education leadership and administration. Historically, these courses serve to train aspiring district and school leaders in fundamental statistical research topics. This article argues for programs to focus as well in these courses on helping aspiring leaders develop…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology, Training, Instructional Leadership
Speicher, Stephanie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is urgency for teacher educators to instruct preservice teachers in the core tenants of social justice education. This urgency is based upon the ever-growing shift in the American demographic landscape and the responsibility of educators to teach for equity, justice, identity and community within classrooms across the U.S. Preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Experiential Learning
Wu, Shelly C.; Pearce, Erin; Price, Callie J. – Electronic Journal for Research in Science & Mathematics Education, 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in school closures, shifting to online instruction poses unique challenges for educators. The purpose of the paper is to inform practitioners on how online instruction was facilitated in a science methods course for preservice teachers (PSTs) enrolled in a public university across three campuses. The major…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, Science Education
Subramaniam, Karthigeyan; Esprívalo Harrell, Pamela – Educational Research, 2015
Background: Literature contends that a teacher's knowledge of concept map-based tasks influence how their students perceive the task and execute the creation of acceptable concept maps. Teachers who are skilled concept mappers are able to (1) understand and apply the operational terms to construct a hierarchical/non-hierarchical concept map; (2)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Concept Mapping, Knowledge Level, Elementary Education
Fisher, Christine M.; Price, James H.; Telljohann, Susan K.; Dake, Joseph A. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Across the United States, school health education programs provide a wide variety of knowledge and skills to their students. There are currently no guidelines for school health methods courses. Methods: Using a 2-wave mailing followed by a third wave e-mail reminder, a final population of 226 university school health methods…
Descriptors: Health Education, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Surveys
Stoetzel, Lindsay; Shedrow, Stephanie – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2021
In response to the COVID 19 pandemic, universities and colleges closed abruptly and teacher educators had little time to move instruction from face-to-face classrooms to digital learning environments. This sudden shift created a myriad of obstacles as instructors worked to retain pedagogically sound and effective instruction through online…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Teacher Education Programs
Haughton, Noela A. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
This paper describes the long-term re-development of an introductory graduate research methods course. The initial design is presented, followed by the two re-design phases. Phase 2 introduced additional inquiry-based strategies such as concept mapping and multiple levels of peer collaboration. Phase 3 incorporated competency-based techniques as…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Competency Based Education, Research Methodology
Marlatt, Rick – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2019
This article describes a recent collective case study of English language arts methods students at a large university in the southwestern United States who created literacy-based welcome videos addressed to future students. By crafting "This is my Story" videos, preservice teachers practiced technology implementation with traditionally…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, English Teachers, Student Developed Materials
Meikle, Erin M. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2016
Many teachers are using the Five Practices model to guide them in orchestrating whole-class mathematics discussions that focus on understanding: (1) anticipate an array of possible student-generated solution strategies to a mathematical task before implementing the lesson; (2) monitor students' work as they grapple with the task; (3) select a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Methods Courses, Elementary School Mathematics
Wilson, Lisa – Journal of Dance Education, 2016
This article focuses on Lisa Wilson's recent teaching experiences at the School of Dance, University of Cape Town (UCT), where dance pedagogy courses are established curricular components of its two undergraduate programs, the three-year Diploma in Dance Education (DipEd) and the four-year Bachelor of Music (BMus) degree in dance. The DipEd…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Undergraduate Study
Dunlap, Joanna C.; Verma, Geeta; Johnson, Heather Lynn – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
In this article, we share a framework for the purposeful design of presence in online courses. Instead of developing something new, we looked at two models that have helped us with previous instructional design projects, providing us with some assurance that the design decisions we were making were fundamentally sound. As we began to work with the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Models, Instructional Design, Communities of Practice
Buss, Ray R.; Foulger, Teresa S.; Wetzel, Keith; Lindsey, LeeAnn – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2018
In a 2-year longitudinal study, we examined the effectiveness of a new technology-infused approach for teaching technology integration (TI) skills to teacher candidates. In the new approach, we infused learning to teach with technology into program methods courses. We measured candidates' understanding of various Technological Pedagogical Content…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Student Teaching, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Educational Technology