While most students in a secondary language arts methods course found writing and reading each other's critical literacy autobiographies interesting and helpful to their understanding of literacy, they struggled with how to respond to their classmates' autobiographies. That struggle emerged within a teacher inquiry project whose central question…

This study assesses the influence of a set of activities developed based on preservice elementary science teachers' conceptions of the nature of science (NOS). It also compares the effectiveness of these activities when implemented using two approaches. The first approach was a direct explicit approach while the second featured additional…

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…

Confirms the view that the more alternatives avilable to students in preservice education and student teaching, the better their education will be meeting individual and future needs. (Author/RB)

The extensive use of tape recordings has been employed to assist in training science teachers. The tape exchange system, between student teacher and college supervisor, was used to supplement regular classroom visits. (Author)

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)

Discusses the use of personal letters written between students and teachers in a reading methods course, noting its effects on student motivation and interest and on program evaluation. (VJ)

An experiment explored the amount of time required to add computer literacy to preservice teachers' skills and whether skills could be taught without a computer literacy course. Students in an industrial education methods course acquired many needed skills when a computer became an adjunct to the course. (PP)

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)

On a Likert scale, 269 prospective elementary school teachers instructed in a seminar workshop approach showed a greater improvement in attitude towards mathematics than students in a lecture setting. On the Dutton attitude scale, there were no differences between instructional techniques nor between pre- and posttest means. (Author/CM)