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The Emergence of Shadow Education in Teacher Education: Evidence from Zimbabwe
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Pfuurai Chimbunde; Godfrey Jakachira – Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 2024
Informed by Charles Wright Mills' sociological imagination and the Technology Acceptance Model, this qualitative study was undertaken to report the emergence of Shadow Education (SE) in teacher education in Zimbabwe amid COVID-19. WhatsApp discussions and Google interviews generated data from 12 lecturers and 12 students, selected using snowball…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, COVID-19, Pandemics
Educing Education Majors' Reflections about After-School Literacy Tutoring: A Poetic Exploration
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Richards, Janet C. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2016
Contemplating one's teaching has long been an essential part of teacher education. Accordingly, as an instructor of a literacy methods course with a tutoring component, I asked education majors in the class to send me weekly e-mail reflections about their teaching experiences. However, they had difficulty considering their lessons. I knew poetry…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Education Majors, Reflection, Poetry
Transformations in Graduate Education Majors' Relational Care in a Service-Learning Writing Course
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Richards, Janet C. – Reading Improvement, 2013
"Listen with your heart. But, remember listening with your heart sometimes means you cannot sleep at night because you are worried about your students" (Education majors' e-mail reflection following 7th week of service-learning tutoring). "I honestly feel like I'm making a difference in these students' lives. The most difficult…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Writing Instruction, Graduate Students, Tutoring
Cross-Age Peer Tutors in Asynchronous Discussion Groups: Exploring the Impact of Three Types of Tutor Training on Patterns in Tutor Support and on Tutor Characteristics
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De Smet, Marijke; Van Keer, Hilde; De Wever, Bram; Valcke, Martin – Computers & Education, 2010
This study was conducted in an authentic university setting with fourth-year Educational Sciences' students operating as online peer tutors to facilitate freshman tutees' online collaboration and knowledge construction in a blended "Instructional Sciences" course. Taking into account prior research uncovering weaknesses in online peer tutor…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Self Efficacy, Discussion Groups, Tutor Training
Growing a New Generation of Music Teachers
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Burrack, Frederick – Music Educators Journal, 2009
In many parts of the United States, there is a growing shortage of music teachers to take the place of the retiring teachers. This is most evident in rural areas. If music teachers are not available to fill openings, music positions are sometimes combined, spreading music teachers too thin and requiring them to possess multiple music…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Rural Schools, Music Education, Music
Teaching Functional Writing Via Telephone: A TDD-Based Project for Teens and Teachers-in-Training.
Lieberth, Ann K. – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1988
Thirteen hearing-impaired teenagers were paired with hearing undergraduate students from a deaf education program. Over 12 weeks, the pairs conversed using telecommunications devices for the deaf, and strategies were used to give the hearing-impaired students practice in language structures. A pretest-posttest procedure revealed improvements in…
Descriptors: Education Majors, Hearing Impairments, Higher Education, Language Skills