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Nickel, Jodi; Chadwick, Joy – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2022
As part of a literacy development course and a subsequent language arts methods course, teacher candidates (TCs) participated in a twenty-week community service learning partnership tutoring elementary students in reading. Through TCs' case study course assignments, survey data, and a focus group interview, the researchers analyzed TCs' growth…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Reading Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Preservice Teachers
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Türkdogan, Gönül; Sivell, John – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2016
Day and Bamford's ten principles for promoting second-language (L2) extensive reading (ER) have been commended for their highly applicable practicality. However, for various reasons, assuring successful ER instruction can remain a challenging task. This surprising contrast may in part be clarified by examining the relationship between Day and…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Reading Instruction, Second Language Instruction, English Teachers
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Karas, Michael; Faez, Farahnaz – TESL-EJ, 2020
Teachers' English proficiency is a significant qualification for successful teaching of English. However, the issue of what level of proficiency teachers believe they need for different settings has not received much attention. This study investigates this issue by looking at novice Chinese pre-service teachers (N = 113) in an MA TESOL program in…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers
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Jao, Limin; Sahmbi, Gurpreet; Huang, Ying-Syuan – Teacher Educator, 2020
In this article, we describe the experiences of two preservice teachers (PSTs) who served as teaching assistants (TAs) in a secondary mathematics teaching methods course. As TAs, the PSTs approximated practice by being independently responsible for a learning environment and leading discussions with groups of students. Although the PSTs felt…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Angelica Galante; John Wayne N. Dela Cruz – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2024
Plurilingualism is an inclusive language teaching approach to sustain multilingual societies, but there is little investigation on teacher candidates' (TCs) beliefs and challenges before and after its implementation. This interpretive qualitative study introduced plurilingualism in teacher education at a Canadian university. Sixteen TCs…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Holloway, Jessica – Critical Studies in Education, 2021
The collection of papers presented in this issue of Critical Studies in Education adds to the expansive body of work on teachers and teaching. Collectively, the papers draw our attention to new ways the field is problematising the emerging and evolving conditions that shape the work, lives and identities of teachers. With this editorial…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Professionalism, Professional Identity
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Gorecki, Laryssa; Doyle-Jones, Carol – Canadian Journal of Action Research, 2021
The value of weaving Indigenous perspectives into the mainstream curricula of Ontario teacher education programs is gaining prominence (Bell & Brant, 2015; Nardozi, Restoule, Broad, Steele, & James, 2014; Tanaka, 2016). Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action (2015), efforts are being made across Ontario…
Descriptors: Indigenous Knowledge, Teaching Methods, Teacher Education Programs, Culturally Relevant Education
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Saunders, Jessica F.; Nutter, Sarah; Brun, Isabel; Exner-Cortens, Deinera; Russell-Mayhew, Shelly – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2021
Teachers view overt expressions of weight stigma, such as weight-related teasing, as troublesome but are often ill-prepared to address instances of weight-related teasing when they arise in the classroom. Comprehensive school health is an emerging framework that aims to better prepare teachers to address issues of health and wellness in the…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Body Weight, Vignettes, Student Attitudes
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Stagg-Peterson, Shelley; Huston, Lori; Ings, Eugema; Mason, Brenda; Falcigno, Kim – McGill Journal of Education, 2021
We draw on a focus group discussion amongst four Indigenous northern Ontario early childhood educators (ECEs) from an Indigenous postsecondary institution's ECE diploma program, to show the important contributions of programs offered by Indigenous postsecondary education institutes to Indigenous cultural revitalization. We are the Indigenous…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Canada Natives, Indigenous Populations, Early Childhood Teachers
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Iskander, Lee – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: In recent years, Canadian and U.S. schools have increased efforts to recognize gender diversity and reduce gender-based harassment, in large part because a growing number of young people are coming out as transgender or nonbinary in adolescence. However, little research explores nonbinary teachers' experiences or investigates…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Sexual Identity, Preservice Teachers, Racial Differences
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Rushton, Claire; Webb, Andrea S. – McGill Journal of Education, 2016
This paper discusses a series of inquiry-based seminars that are central to the teacher education program at the University of British Columbia. This teacher education program reflects the changing curriculum in the province. The new inquiry-based provincial curriculum is being implemented between 2015 and 2018 and the teacher education program is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inquiry, Active Learning, Seminars
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Koh, Kim; Chapman, Olive – Papers on Postsecondary Learning and Teaching, 2019
Problem-based learning could have a great impact in teacher education not only to support prospective teachers' learning, but also to help them to design and implement learner-centered experiences to satisfy requirements of reform-based curriculum. In this paper, we discuss the nature and role of problem-based learning to support authentic…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Assessment Literacy, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Education
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Araujo, Rosa Cendros; Floyd, Lisa; Gadanidis, George – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2019
With the increasing advocacy for Computational Thinking (CT) integration in K-12 education, it is important to consider how teacher education programs could better prepare teacher candidates (TCs). At the Faculty of Education at Western University, CT has been included in the curriculum as part of the teacher education program through the course…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Computation, Thinking Skills
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Fletcher, Tim; Ní Chróinín, Déirdre; O'Sullivan, Mary – Professional Development in Education, 2019
In this research we examined the ways we accessed and responded to students' engagement with a set of pedagogical principles of teacher education focused on meaningful physical education. The research was cross-cultural, taking place in universities in Country 1 and Country 2. Self-study of teacher education practice (S-STEP) methodology guided…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Learner Engagement, Physical Education
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Cutumisu, Maria; Guo, Qi – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: This paper employs the automatic scoring of short essays as a novel way to determine pre-service teachers' knowledge of and attitudes toward computational thinking (CT) from their written reflections. Implications about designing CT courses for pre-service teachers are discussed. Background: CT is an essential 21st-century competency…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Computation, Reflection, Coding
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