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Creating a Tool to Measure Children's Wellbeing: A PSS Intervention in South Sudan
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Olayemi, Moses; Tucker, Melissa; Choul, Mamour; Purekal, Tom; Benitez, Arlene; Wheaton, Wendy; DeBoer, Jennifer – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2021
Since 2015, more than 560,000 South Sudanese primary school children have received psychosocial support (PSS) through the USAID-funded Integrated Essential Emergency Education Services program implemented by UNICEF. Several South Sudan-based nongovernmental organizations partnered with UNICEF to train local teachers to implement the PSS activities…
Descriptors: Well Being, Conflict, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students
Examining the Preparation of Highly Effective Teachers
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Daoud, Nisreen; Bruyning, Alicia Kay – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
With the current surge of developing highly effective teachers, the scrutiny of teacher preparation programs is at the forefront of national teacher education conversations. In this content analysis, the researchers examined the teacher preparation programs of 10 schools in the Universities of Washington (D.C.) Metropolitan Area consortium using a…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Education, Communities of Practice, Teacher Certification
Examining Correlations between Preparation Experiences of US Technology and Engineering Educators and Their Teaching of Science Content and Practices
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Love, Tyler S.; Wells, John G. – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2018
The purpose of this research was to investigate the extent of the relationship between select technology and science preparation experiences of United States (US) technology and engineering (T&E) teachers and their teaching of science content and practices. Utilizing a fully integrated mixed methods design (Teddlie and Tashakkori in "Res…
Descriptors: Correlation, Technology Education, Engineering Education, Content Analysis
Making Justice Peripheral by Constructing Practice as "Core": How the Increasing Prominence of Core Practices Challenges Teacher Education
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Philip, Thomas M.; Souto-Manning, Mariana; Anderson, Lauren; Horn, Ilana; J. Carter Andrews, Dorinda; Stillman, Jamy; Varghese, Manka – Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
Reformers are increasingly calling for and adopting practice-based approaches to teacher preparation, with particular emphasis on identifying and centering core practices. In this article, we argue that organizing teacher education around core practices brings its own risks, including the risk of peripheralizing equity and justice. Situating our…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Teacher Education, Risk, Equal Education
Responding to the Challenge of Providing Stronger Research Base for Teacher Education: Research Discourses in the Norwegian National Research School for Teacher Education
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Østern, Anna-Lena – Educational Research, 2016
Background and purpose: The purpose of this article is to shed light on how the research projects of 140 PhD candidates in the National Research School for Teacher Education in Norway (NAFOL) respond to the challenges faced by Norwegian teacher education regarding the demand for higher competence and a stronger research base. The concept of NAFOL…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries