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Kinkead, Joyce – Across the Disciplines, 2018
This article describes an assessment project that analyzed syllabi approved for a communication intensive (CI) requirement in a general education program. As such, it is a first step in a more comprehensive assessment. The article suggests that it is important to ensure that inputs are evaluated prior to an evaluation of outcomes. The assessment…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Student Research, Undergraduate Students, Writing Across the Curriculum
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Alemanne, Nicole D.; Mandel, Lauren H. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2018
This paper reports on an investigation into the effectiveness of teaching research methods in library and information science (LIS). A review of the literature revealed that the LIS community is engaged in a continuing debate about the most effective means for teaching research methods courses in master's-level LIS programs. Many LIS master's…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Methods Courses, Information Science Education, Teaching Methods
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Johnson, Lindy L.; Barnes, Meghan E. – New Educator, 2018
This article looks across two teacher education programs to review the tensions and benefits of critical, project-based (CPB) clinical experiences. The first study examines a project embedded within a methods course focused on secondary English language arts (ELA) preservice teachers (PSTs) engaging with youth around a shared writing activity. In…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Partnerships in Education
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Straková, Zuzana; Cimermanová, Ivana – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2018
A technology supported environment in the educational context has been identified as a useful work space with the potential to deepen the learning experience. This study focuses on ways of using it for the development of reflection as a key teaching competence within initial teacher training. It is based on the premise that enriched reflection…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Reflection, Thinking Skills, Skill Development
Nitta, Kathleen Marguerite – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Preparing teachers to enact practice that is responsive to the demands of contemporary classrooms requires a re-examination of traditional approaches to teacher education. Practice-based approaches to professional learning have shown promise in supporting novices' learning of practices central to the work of teaching. Recent scholarship in teacher…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Elementary School Teachers
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Ertle, Barbrina B. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2017
This article reports on the findings of manipulative analyses performed by preservice and in-service teachers in an early childhood teacher education program mathematics methods course. The activities are intended to model and promote mathematical analyses for better discrimination between mathematics manipulatives by early childhood teachers.…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Manipulative Materials, Mathematics Instruction, Preschool Teachers
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Grinell, Smith; Rabin, Colette – Science & Education, 2017
The goal of this project was to motivate pre-service elementary teachers to commit to spending significant instructional time on science in their future classrooms despite their self-assessed lack of confidence about teaching science and other impediments (e.g., high-stakes testing practices that value other subjects over science). Pre-service…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Methods Courses, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Lucey, Thomas A.; Laney, James D. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2017
In this article, we explain how the Discipline-based Art Education Model (DBAE) represents an instructional tool to disturb teacher candidates and elementary students' commonly held notions of US history, motivate research into historical events, and revise understandings of historical topics so that they begin seeing how the past has shaped the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Visual Arts, History Instruction, Assignments
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Angus, Katie B. – CALICO Journal, 2017
The 2007 Modern Language Association (MLA) report recommended that foreign language (FL) graduate students be provided with "substantive training in language teaching and in the use of new technologies". In the present study, I examined teaching methodology ("methods") course syllabi in order to gauge the extent of professional…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Course Descriptions, Graduate Students
Elizabeth Sugino David – ProQuest LLC, 2020
A prevailing challenge in teacher education is the "problem of enactment," a discrepancy in what teacher candidates (TCs) know or say about practice and what they can actually do or enact (Kennedy, 1999). Current practice-based teacher education research focuses on articulating pedagogies of practice and core practices to integrate…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses, Teaching Methods
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Lucas, Ashley G.; Milligan, Andrea – Studying Teacher Education, 2019
In light of societal pluralism, diverse visions exist for social justice. In this sense, uncertainty is a marker of social justice education and research. This article shares insights into how we came to ask a question about teaching for social justice through cross-cultural collaborative self-study. Eight New Zealand pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Diversity, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Kearns, Laura-Lee – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2020
This case study explores the impact of an English language Arts Secondary methods class that focused on learning with and from Indigenous people. By participating in a number of in-class activities, taking a field trip, and engaging in a critical service-learning project that helped decentre the learner/teacher relationship, many non-Indigenous…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Transformative Learning, English, Language Arts
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Tannebaum, Rory P. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2020
The present empirical study seeks to explore the perceptions novice educators have toward the use of controversial public issues (CPI) in the secondary classroom. The research attempts to do this by examining the following research questions: (a) To what extent do new teachers associate the use of CPI in the classroom with broad principles of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Teacher Attitudes, Beginning Teachers
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Carrier, Sarah J.; Grifenhagen, Jill F. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2020
The academic language of science includes science content words and words that describe the practices of scientists. The present study examined science vocabulary knowledge and science vocabulary instruction practices of pre-service teachers enrolled in a primary science methods course. This exploratory mixed-methods study presents quantitative…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Vocabulary Development, Science Instruction, Preservice Teachers
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Mitchell, Jerry T. – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2018
How to improve geography education via teacher preparation programs has been a concern for nearly three decades, but few examples of a single, comprehensive university-level course exist. The purpose of this article is to share the model of a pre-service geography education methods course. Within the course, geography content (physical and social)…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Geography Instruction, Teaching Skills, Teaching Experience
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