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"I Had No Idea": Developing Dispositional Awareness and Sensitivity through a Cross-Professional Pedagogy
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Dotger, Benjamin H. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
This research scrutinized the diffusion of a medical education pedagogy to the context of teacher education. Specifically, it focused on the use of standardized parents as an emerging pedagogy in teacher education. Preservice teachers taking part in a six case, fifteen-week intervention showed advances in multicultural awareness and ethical…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Medical Education, Preservice Teachers, Parent Teacher Conferences
Examining How Preservice Science Teachers Navigate Simulated Parent-Teacher Conversations on Evolution and Intelligent Design
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Dotger, Sharon; Dotger, Benjamin H.; Tillotson, John – Science Education, 2010
Discussing the teaching of evolution with concerned parents is a challenge to any science teacher. Using the medical education pedagogy of standardized individuals within the field of teacher education, this article addresses how preservice science teachers elected to verbally interact with standardized parents who questioned the teaching of…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Evolution, Science Teachers, Preservice Teachers
Listening to Families over Time: Seven Lessons Learned about Literacy in Families
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Compton-Lilly, Catherine – Language Arts, 2009
The research reported in this article invites educators to rethink their assumptions about students and families. Using data from a qualitative, longitudinal teacher-research study, the author presents seven lessons that she has learned from the families of her students and challenges other teachers to seek ways to learn about the families they…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Family Literacy, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Teacher Conferences
Parental Involvement in Curriculum Matters: Parents, Teachers, and Children Working Together.
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Dye, Janet S. – European Education, 1992
Presents results of a study of parental involvement in curriculum planning and enrichment in four London (England) primary schools. Reports that the program implementing parent teacher cooperation was successful in terms of student achievement, parental enjoyment, and teacher satisfaction. Discusses the importance of home, school, and the outside…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Family School Relationship
Student Teachers' Planning and Decision-Making Related to Pupil Evaluation.
Barnes, Susan – 1983
Findings of the Clinical Teacher Education-Preservice Study were examined to determine the extent to which student teachers possessed planning and decision-making skills related to pupil evaluation. The study focused on findings from cooperating teacher-student teacher conferences and journal data regarding planning and evaluation practices of 20…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cooperating Teachers, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Parental Involvement Effects Reading Achievement of First, Second, and Third Graders.
Miller, Becky Iden – 1986
A review of research data focused on the effects of parental involvement on children's reading achievement and ways in which parents can help promote children's reading achievement. The review included 35 studies (which are briefly summarized) of (1) parents' attitudes about their involvement in their child's education, (2) the positive effects of…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Meta Analysis, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation