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Amy Ray; Julie Herron – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
In our mathematics methods courses for elementary preservice teachers, we work to uncover and confront students' understandings as well as misconceptions about important mathematical topics. Karp and colleagues' ("Teaching Children Mathematics", 21(1), 18-25) "13 Rules That Expire" article has been a useful resource for us to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Elementary School Teachers, Methods Courses
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Brown, Michael; Rodríguez, Noreen Naseem; Updegraff, Amy – Learning, Media and Technology, 2023
The curriculum marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) claims that 85% of educators in the United States use the site. Despite substantial evidence that TPT offers low quality materials, little research has explored the impact of TPT on curriculum-making. We analyze 76 TPT seller sites from assignments submitted by teacher candidates in an…
Descriptors: Teacher Collaboration, Curriculum Development, Teacher Developed Materials, Assignments
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Wenner, Julianne A.; Carney, Michele – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2023
Given the myriad mandates and policies related to math and language arts education, U.S. public elementary teachers must "care about" teaching science for it to actually happen. Consequently, this study sought to explore the impacts of assignments in a science methods course supporting teacher candidates (TCs) in "caring about"…
Descriptors: Caring, Science Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Methods Courses
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Kucan, Linda; Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – Reading Psychology, 2023
This article describes a literacy methods course designed to introduce reading specialist candidates to research-based practices for comprehension instruction. Specifically, this article focuses on a sequence of assignments and class sessions within that course that introduced theoretical perspectives about comprehension processes and how those…
Descriptors: Reading Consultants, Reading Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses
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Gierhart, Aaron R. – Teacher Educators' Journal, 2022
This case study was conducted in Fall 2020 with two Elementary Education pre-service teaching candidates. The goal of the study was to better understand how students in this course developed new insights about teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic through their successful design of comic strip narrative artwork. The students created comic strips…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Methods Courses
Roseline Nyaboke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Scientific modeling is a scientific practice that uses models to prepare elementary and middle school science teachers to engage students using scientific inquiry. Model-based inquiry (MBI) is a pedagogical teaching approach that engages students using scientific inquiry during scientific modeling. However, preservice teachers lack understanding…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Stoetzel, Lindsay; Shedrow, Stephanie – Excelsior: Leadership in Teaching and Learning, 2021
In response to the COVID 19 pandemic, universities and colleges closed abruptly and teacher educators had little time to move instruction from face-to-face classrooms to digital learning environments. This sudden shift created a myriad of obstacles as instructors worked to retain pedagogically sound and effective instruction through online…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Teacher Education Programs