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Peer reviewedGlasson, George E.; McKenzie, Woodrow L. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 1999
Discusses an innovative process that was used for engaging prospective teachers in collaboration and reflection on their learning as they developed a multi-media portfolio. (Contains 15 references.) (WRM)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods
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Direct linkLotter, Christine – Science Educator, 2004
The purpose of this study was to develop a picture of how preservice science teachers? instructional concerns changed during a yearlong science methods program spanning initial classroom observations through student teaching. Another goal of this study was to determine the teachers? ideas about inquiry teaching and the influence of their methods…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Student Teaching
Good, Amy – College Quarterly, 2004
This paper will explore emerging benefits of telecollaboration and telementoring through an examination of the literature, a reflection on current practices at the University of Virginia and the University of South Florida, and a forecast proposal for potential seamless integration of technology with teacher preparation and training in schools of…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Social Studies, Instructional Innovation, Technology Integration
Lachance, Andrea M.; Benton, Cynthia J.; Klein, Beth Shiner – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2007
Partnerships, especially the Professional Development School (PDS) model, between institutions of higher education (IHE) and public schools (PS), have become, if not commonplace, a successful model for teacher education. PDS teacher education projects in which preservice teachers and higher education faculty participate in school-based instruction…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Schools of Education, Professional Development Schools
Zacharious, Aravella; Valanides, Nicos – Science Education International, 2006
The study used an outdoor program for promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in primary education and investigated the extent to which primary student teachers were prepared to deal with ESD. It also investigated the impact of an outdoor program on primary student teachers' knowledge and attitudes towards sustainable issues, and on…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Outdoor Education, Student Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Bleicher, Robert E. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2006
The purpose of this study was to examine changes in personal science teaching self-efficacy (PSTE), outcome expectancy (STOE), and science conceptual understanding and relationships among these in preservice teachers. Seventy preservice teachers enrolled in science teaching methods courses participated in this study. PSTE, STOE, and science…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Science Instruction
Lewis, Angela; And Others – 1995
Collaborative efforts between university methods courses and elementary classroom teachers provide laboratory experiences that facilitate preservice teachers understanding of thematic instructional approaches to teaching elementary science and social studies. Preservice teachers in these field-based programs learn to apply the theories to which…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Methods Courses
Krol, Christine A. – 1996
Training teachers as reflective practitioners is an important element in many teacher education programs. Teacher education literature indicates that journal writing is an approach that fosters reflection, and is an effective source of dialogue between student and teacher. This document reports on an action research study on the use of journals in…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Dialog Journals, Education Majors, Elementary Secondary Education
Procedural Knowledge Teaching Model: Effects of Short-Term Internet Training on Preservice Teachers.
Farenga, Stephen J.; Joyce, Beverly A. – 1996
The majority of teacher candidates feel unprepared to teach with computers, and few teacher training programs are preparing future educators to effectively use the Internet to enrich their classrooms and contribute to their own personal development. The purpose of this study was to teach the procedural knowledge required to navigate the Internet…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Anxiety, Computer Attitudes, Computer Literacy
Conrad, Karen S.; Tracy, Dyanne M. – 1992
Research has shown that elementary teachers are mathematics anxious, and that this anxiousness can be transmitted to their students. Therefore, many students are not afforded the opportunity to participate in a comfortable mathematics environment. Preservice elementary teachers (n=63) reported their pre- and posttest mathematics anxiety using the…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Attitude Change, Education Majors, Elementary Education
Russell, Tom – 1994
This paper reports the results of a deliberate effort to help preservice science teachers improve their ability to learn from experience and take charge of their own professional development as teachers. The study was conducted by a teacher educator who simultaneously taught a physics methods course and a 12th-grade physics class and thereby…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, High Schools
D'Emidio-Caston, Marianne – 1993
This paper describes a simulation activity, which was coupled with Confluent/Gestalt meta-processing, that was designed to address the affective component of a mathematics procedures class for preservice teachers. The activity consisted of an explanation and demonstration for teacher educators. It is argued that a reconstruction of disposition…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attitude Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Gestalt Therapy
Aydelott, John – 1993
In the master's program in the Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) course at the American University of Cairo (Egypt), student projects linking theory with classroom practice are used as a teacher training technique. The projects allow trainees to synthesize theoretical concepts, learn processes and develop materials they can use in…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Wesley, Donald A.; Vocke, David E. – 1992
The study described in this presentation was conducted to survey the status of classroom discipline within the professional teacher education curriculum and to ascertain the perceptions of preservice teachers towards addressing discipline problems. Classroom discipline is examined in the following ways: (1) an analysis of contemporary literature;…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Discipline Problems, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Sheridan, Daniel – 1993
This "hybrid" textbook (part anthology, part activities, part discursive text) introduces methods students to important topics in English education. The book introduces students to a process approach to writing, a reader-response approach to literature, and a sociolinguistic approach to language. Each chapter in the book features: an…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, English Teacher Education, Higher Education
