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Thripp, Richard – Online Submission, 2019
New teachers are facing lower pay and less generous retirement benefits than the prior generation, yet their financial and retirement knowledge, concerns, and preferences have received little attention. To investigate these areas, the author developed a 39-item survey instrument and administered it to 314 preservice teachers in undergraduate…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Investment, Money Management
Beile, Penny – Online Submission, 2005
No population exists where it is more important to produce information literate individuals than teacher candidates, yet few would suggest that practitioners newly entering the field are adequately prepared to model and teach information literacy to their students. Consequently, information literacy has recently been established as a key outcome…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Information Literacy, Preservice Teachers, Academic Standards
Nevin, Ann; Cohen, Judith; Salazar, Liliana; Marshall, Deidre – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study is to discover Florida International University student teachers' perceptions and experiences about inclusive education during their student teaching internship. A total of 271 student teachers (all those enrolled in Spring 06 and Fall 06 student teaching) participated. A mixed methods design was utilized to analyze the…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Attitude Measures, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Student Teachers
O'Hara, Hunter – Online Submission, 2005
Interns at The University of Tampa investigate how perceptions of dialect and regionalism may impact the learning environment and more precisely, the learner. Regionalism is defined as a belief that one's region of origin is a primary determinant of the quality of one's standards of living, social forms, customary beliefs, levels of…
Descriptors: Stereotypes, Dialects, Differences, Regional Characteristics
Smith, Geoffrey G., Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
This issue of the SubJournal highlights three different substitute teacher programs and how they succeeded in enhancing their programs. These articles provide guidelines to how two school districts and one regional education service center met these challenges. A list of references follows each article. Articles in this issue include: (1) St.…
Descriptors: Substitute Teachers, Personnel Selection, Personnel Management, Teacher Education
Cramer, Elizabeth; Nevin, Ann; Thousand, Jacqueline; Liston, Andrea – Online Submission, 2006
A mixed methodology approach was used to address the question: what are skills, knowledge and dispositions that co-teachers need to balance the seemingly competing mandates of NCLB and IDEIA in order to prepare teachers for the classrooms of today and tomorrow? Based on the results of two recent studies that focused on secondary co-teacher teams…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Urban Schools, Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes