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Spalding, Elizabeth; Wang, Jian; Lin, Emily; Butcher, John – New Educator, 2009
Understanding the interplay among experience, beliefs, and contexts of teaching in preservice and inservice teachers' learning to teach is crucial to improving teacher quality for diverse populations. This study examined the impact of a summer camp English teaching experience in China on the ideas and practice of two White, middle-class female…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Preservice Teachers
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Wang, Jian; Paine, Lynn W. – Elementary School Journal, 2001
Analyzed the collaboration of a first-grade novice teacher and her mentor teacher while the novice learned to teach mathematics in China. Found that the mentor contributed to novice teacher's progress by implementing a clear, consistent focus; modeling, analyzing, and reflecting on mathematics teachers; and defining and refining the zones of the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers