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Walker, Joan M. T.; Dotger, Benjamin H. – Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
This study used text-related, video-based case materials to assess teacher candidates' readiness to communicate with families. Participants (N = 141) rated their efficacy for home-school communication and then responded to a description of a classroom-based challenge regarding one student's behavioral and academic performance. Next, they evaluated…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Self Efficacy, Parent Teacher Conferences, Parent School Relationship
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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
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Dotger, Benjamin H.; Harris, Steven; Maher, Michael; Hansel, Amber – Teacher Educator, 2011
This article explores preservice teachers' emotional responses to simulated parent-teacher conferences. The authors examine the transfer of a medical education pedagogy as it is diffused to teacher education, scrutinizing the types of emotional responses teachers exhibited as they engaged with standardized parents in six clinical parent…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Emotional Response, Parent Teacher Conferences, Simulation
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Dotger, Benjamin H.; Harris, Steven; Hansel, Amber – Teaching Education, 2008
Schools of education struggle to provide future teachers with opportunities to engage in and practice parent-teacher conferences. This manuscript addresses the diffusion of a signature pedagogy from medical education to teacher education, specifically highlighting the design and implementation considerations surrounding simulated parent-teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Parent Teacher Conferences, Teaching Methods, Medical Education