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Pytash, Kristine E.; Morgan, Denise N.; Testa, Elizabeth – Literacy Research and Instruction, 2023
Despite the importance of learning to teach writing, many preservice teachers do not take a writing course as part of their teacher preparation. For those universities that do offer a writing methods course, teacher educators face challenges in designing responsive and rigorous clinical experiences especially since writing is often under taught in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Writing Instruction, Middle Schools
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Margulieux, Lauren; Yadav, Aman – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2021
We explored how preservice teachers in a middle school science methods course learned and applied computational thinking (CT) concepts and activities during a month-long intervention. In the intervention, preservice teachers learned about CT concepts through an hour-long lecture in their methods class, practiced a computing-integration activity…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Instruction, Methods Courses, Intervention
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Navarro Martell, Melissa Arabel – Association of Mexican American Educators Journal, 2021
Language usage in US K-12 classrooms and beyond continues to be an issue of equity (Navarro Martell, 2021; Palmer et al., 2019). Teachers expect racialized students who appear to be Latinx to know and perform as if their native language is Spanish, mientras a otros se les celebra sus intentos de usar el espan~ol; otro idioma colonizador. Some…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Spanish
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McCarthy, Deborah Louise – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2015
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) education is a national instructional priority. As part of Southeastern Louisiana University's STEM Outreach Initiative, funded by a Shell Oil Company Foundation grant to raise interest in STEM-related activities, teacher candidates were given the opportunity to leave their classroom to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Science Fairs, Learning Activities, Experiential Learning
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Gurl, Theresa J.; Fox, Ryan; Dabovic, Nikolina; Leavitt, Arielle Eager – Mathematics Teacher, 2016
The implementation of the Common Core's Standards for Mathematical Practice can pose a challenge to all teachers of mathematics but especially to preservice teachers. These standards require teaching in a way that often differs from what preservice teachers have experienced as learners. Standard 1--"Make sense of problems and persevere in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Experience
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Jao, Limin – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
For pre-service teachers (PSTs) who have been exposed to traditional approaches, teacher education courses can be a revelatory experience in their development as educators. This study explores if Canadian upper elementary/lower secondary (grades 4-10) PSTs change their beliefs about mathematics teaching as a result of taking a mathematics methods…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Utley, Juliana; Reeder, Stacy – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2012
Can prospective elementary teachers "unlearn" harmful algorithms used with fractions as they are invited to develop fraction number sense? This study examined the development of prospective elementary teachers' fraction number sense during an intermediate (grades 5-8) mathematics methods course. During this course, participants' were involved in a…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Scores, Methods Courses, Grade 5
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Conklin, Hilary G.; Daigle, Elizabeth – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2012
This research examines the preparation of middle grades social studies teachers by investigating opportunities for learning in 2 social studies methods courses in distinctive teacher education pathways: a specialized middle grades program and a secondary social studies program. The findings suggest that, although both methods course instructors…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Social Studies
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Haser, Cigdem; Dogan, Oguzhan – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2012
The influence of mathematics teacher education programme courses on pre-service teachers' mathematics teaching belief systems before their field experience was initially investigated through a Likert-type scale. The impact of a third year general teaching methodologies course was then investigated through the responses pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Beliefs, Teacher Educators, Mathematics Teachers
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Falter Thomas, Angela; Sondergeld, Toni – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
This article investigates the impact of scaffolded feedback instruction provided through an undergraduate methods course. Because of a desire for preservice teachers to have online teaching experience and due to low performance scores in assessment on the edTPA, a project was created which partnered preservice teachers with middle-grades students.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness, Preservice Teachers, Middle School Students
Colwell, Jamie R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation describes a formative experiment that investigated how strategy instruction paired with collaborative blogging could promote disciplinary literacy among eighth-grade students in a social studies classroom and among pre-service teachers in a social studies methods course. Qualitative methods were utilized to collect and analyze…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Case Studies, Preservice Teachers, Electronic Publishing
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Kitchen, Richard; DePree, Julie – AMATYC Review, 2004
In this article, the authors describe their efforts to assess prospective K-8 teachers' knowledge of proportional reasoning. Based upon their analysis of prospective K-8 teachers' work on a mathematics performance task, they discuss the implications for preparing prospective teachers to teach proportional reasoning to their students. In general,…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Misconceptions, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts
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Chappell, Drew – Teaching Artist Journal, 2006
The author learned that the book "The Catcher in the Rye," so important to him as a young man, had been challenged by adults and could easily have been barred from his school's reading list. He started thinking about who had the power to tell him what he could and could not read as a teenager and as a high school student. What were the…
Descriptors: Acting, Student Attitudes, Drama, Methods Courses
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Koirala, Hari P.; Bowman, Jacqueline K. – School Science and Mathematics, 2003
Many members of the mathematics and science education community believe that the integration of mathematics and science enhances students' understanding of both subjects. Despite this belief, attempts to integrate these subjects have frequently been unsuccessful. This study examines the development and implementation of a team-taught integrated…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum