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Preservice Teachers' Ideas about Scientific Modeling and Model-Based Inquiry during a Methods of Teaching Course
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Roseline Nyaboke – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Scientific modeling is a scientific practice that uses models to prepare elementary and middle school science teachers to engage students using scientific inquiry. Model-based inquiry (MBI) is a pedagogical teaching approach that engages students using scientific inquiry during scientific modeling. However, preservice teachers lack understanding…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Programs, Science Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Preparing Culturally Responsive Literacy Teachers: Investigations of Whiteness in a Literacy Methods Course
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Royster, Kelly Berghoff – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Teacher education programs across the United States must prepare teachers who have the content area knowledge, pedagogical expertise, and cultural competence needed to teach an increasingly diverse student population. One consistent suggestion for programs committed to preparing culturally responsive teachers is to incorporate investigations of…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Literacy, Teacher Education Programs, Methods Courses
"I Felt Like the Enemy and the Savior All at Once": English Teacher Identity in a Methods Course Wiki
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Jewett, Michelle Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study explores the identity constructions of two cohorts of preservice teachers enrolled in English methods courses during a semester of field experience. This research employs a qualitative methodology and documents the nature of participant's responses posted to online wiki forum. Data sources include archived electronic interactions…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Methods Courses, Professional Identity, Electronic Publishing
Using Technology to Develop a Collaborative-Reflective Teaching Practice toward Synthecultural Competence: An Ethnographic Case Study in World Language Teacher Preparation
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Webber, Dana E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Using technology to develop a collaborative-reflective teaching practice in a world language education methods course block for teaching certification creates unique opportunities for world language education undergraduates to learn to develop synthecultural competence for education. Such a program allows undergraduates to expand their capacity to…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Reflective Teaching
Preservice Science Teacher Beliefs about Teaching and the Science Methods Courses: Exploring Perceptions of Microteaching Outcomes
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McLaury, Ralph L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigates beliefs about teaching held by preservice science teachers and their influences on self-perceived microteaching outcomes within interactive secondary science teaching methods courses. Hermeneutic methodology was used in cooperation with seven preservice science teachers (N = 7) to infer participant beliefs about teaching…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Characteristics
Allow the Music to Speak: A Portraiture Case Study of Pre-Service Teachers' Experiences in a Music-Integrated Literacy Methods Course
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Moore, Christi – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Drawing on portraiture methods, this case study is an exploration of the experiences of pre-service teachers who participated in a music-integrated literacy methods course during their first semester in an elementary teacher preparation program. The study is a response to previous researchers' findings that arts-integrated university courses hold…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Music Education, Literacy