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Jackson, Christa; Mohr-Schroeder, Margaret; Little, David L., II. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2014
This mixed methods study examined the influence informal learning experiences had on secondary STEM preservice teachers' preparation as they worked with students who struggle in mathematics. The quantitative data sources included a Teacher Self-Reflection Survey, Mathematics Clinic Tutor Survey, and a Student Survey, while the qualitative data…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Secondary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, STEM Education
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Miller, S. J. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2014
This study highlights one semester of ongoing research reflecting how preservice English students performed dispositions for social justice. This work draws on a postmethod approach, observing participants' artifacts and participation in a variety of classroom activities. By tapping into participants' funds of social justice knowledge, it explored…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, English Instruction, Social Justice, Performance Based Assessment
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Scherff, Lisa – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
In this article, we explore findings from a semester-long online mentoring project between graduate students enrolled in a doctoral program and university students observing in local high schools early in their teacher education program. The project's goals were to provide supervised mentoring experiences for doctoral students to better prepare…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Online Systems, Graduate Students
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Wassell, Beth A. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
This article illustrates how narratives provided by Ian, a beginning science and mathematics teacher, and by some of his urban high school students contribute to Ian's process of identifying. Through the use of narrative inquiry, I demonstrate how the narratives use converse descriptions to portray Ian's identity in terms of the type of teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Stairs, Andrea J. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2003
This article examines definitions of "highly qualified" teachers posed by the federal government, the American public, the professionalization agenda in teacher education, and the deregulation movement in teacher education. It focuses on one university's definition in practice: the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. I describe…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Federal Government, Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness
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Miller, S. J. – Teacher Education and Practice, 2006
The article examines, through comparative case study method, how secondary-language-arts preservice student teachers' identities were constructed by spacetime configurations and what those identities meant to the individuals in the study. It reflects on the findings from two of the preservice secondary arts teachers for the study in two…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teachers, Case Studies