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Pitt, Aleksandra N.; Schultz, Courtney A.; Vaske, Jerry J. – Environmental Education Research, 2019
The US Forest Service has a long history of youth conservation education. We investigated U.S. Forest Service citizen science programs that involve secondary school students in field collection of monitoring data to understand (1) how the programs integrated science and environmental education and (2) whether these programs advance ecological…
Descriptors: Literacy, Environmental Education, Program Descriptions, Forestry
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Felton, Mathew D.; Page, Melissa – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2014
Findings from an extensive four-year program with a single cohort of elementary and early middle school mathematics instructors highlight several important themes that can inform other efforts in developing teacher leaders. The authors describe the Arizona Master Teachers of Mathematics (AZ-MTM) program as an example that supports the development…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Leadership
Sawchuk, Stephen – Education Week, 2011
School after school in the Phoenix area has a banner hanging on the side of the building: iTeachAZ. It is shorthand for Arizona State University's new flagship undergraduate teacher education program, which integrates several high-profile--and hotly debated--reforms to teacher preparation today. Under the program, which debuted formally this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Education Majors, Undergraduate Study, Teacher Education Programs
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Kozleski, Elizabeth B.; Waitoller, Federico R. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
In this article, we describe a model of teacher learning which is grounded in an apprenticeship approach to developing both practical knowledge and a critical understanding of the everyday practices that result in marginalisation. Beginning with an exploration of self and the lenses that teachers use to understand, assess and predict the…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Apprenticeships, Teaching Methods, Inclusion
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Betts, J. David – Teaching Artist Journal, 2008
The Multimedia Arts Education Program (MAEP) was an innovative initiative for middle school students that used teaching artists as leaders in an apprenticeship-like teaching context. This article is about a second apprenticeship program supported by a University/Community Partnership grant from the Kellogg Foundation that engaged university…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Art Teachers, Artists, Student Teachers
Fontana, Bernard L. – Native Peoples, 1995
The Tohono O'odham built Mission San Xavier del Bac for Franciscan missionaries in the late 1700s and have protected and cared for it through changing circumstances ever since. As part of a massive restoration project, outstanding experts have been restoring the church's painted and sculpted interior and training local Tohono O'odham to be…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Apprenticeships, Buildings, Catholics