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Hsu, Hui-Yin – Multicultural Education & Technology Journal, 2009
Purpose: Although teacher educators have worked on improving pre-service teachers' diversity awareness, researchers still face the challenge of pursuing a better approach to achieve the goal. In an era when educators are calling for evidence-based practice, the purpose of this paper is to explore various ways in which both teacher-education…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Greene, H. Carol – Current Issues in Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the role and learning outcomes of three types of classroom observations in a teacher education methods course: video-based CD-ROMS, videoconference-supported observations, and traditional face-to-face observations. It was not the goal of this study to compare the effectiveness of each type of observation to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Observation
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Lindsay, Jo – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2008
Contemporary undergraduate courses in research methods are challenging to teach because of the wide scope of the subject matter, limited student contact hours and the complexity of supervising research projects undertaken by novices. Focus group assignments within class offer an interesting and enjoyable way for students to develop and apply…
Descriptors: Assignments, Methods Courses, Social Science Research, Teacher Education Curriculum
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Wilhelm, Jennifer Anne; Smith, Walter S.; Walters, Kendra L.; Sherrod, Sonya E.; Mulholland, Judith – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2008
Pre-service teachers from Texas and Indiana in the United States and from Queensland, Australia, observed the Moon for a semester and compared and contrasted their findings in asynchronous Internet discussion groups. The 188 pre-service teachers were required to conduct inquiry investigations for their methods coursework which included an initial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Discussion Groups, Internet
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Tanner, Leigh – Social Studies, 2008
Researchers have been documenting the unfortunate status of social studies in the elementary classroom since the 1980s (J. Stark 1987), and although a lack of teacher interest, poor instructional methods, and the No Child Left Behind Act may be the current contributing factors, these factors should be viewed as just the tip of the iceberg. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Federal Legislation
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Stucky, Thomas D. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008
Studies suggest that student attendance in college classes increases course success. Yet, surprisingly few studies have examined strategies to increase student attendance. The goal of the current study is to consider whether contacting consistently absent students increases success in an undergraduate research methods course. Results of this…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Research Methodology, Academic Achievement, College Attendance
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Stewart, Trae – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2008
Given that teachers need to present information in a concise, understandable way, to reflect on their practices to inform future actions, and to know how to create and use a teaching artifact, this article reports the findings from a study conducted to examine the impacts from a class-based poster session in teacher education. First, a review of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Service Learning, Teaching Methods
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Blackbourn, J. M.; Fillingim, Jennifer G.; McCelland, Susan; Elrod, G. Franklin; Medley, Meagan B.; Kritsonis, Mary Alice; Ray, Jan – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2008
This study examines the use of wireless laptop technology to support the application of problem-based learning (PBL) in a special education methods course. This field based course used a progressive disclosure process in weekly seminars to address issues posed in a case study. Eight scenarios, all related to the case, were presented to upper level…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Teacher Education, Group Discussion
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Forbes, Cory T.; Davis, Elizabeth A. – Science Education, 2008
Curriculum materials are a crucial tool with which teachers engage in teaching practice. For preservice teachers to learn to use science curriculum materials in productive ways, they must develop a conception of themselves as elementary teachers in which the use of science curriculum materials is a valued dimension of science-teaching practice. We…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Science, Methods Courses
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Burton, Megan; Daane, C. J.; Giesen, Judy – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2008
This study compared content knowledge for teaching mathematics differences between elementary pre-service teachers in a traditional versus an experimental mathematics methods course. The experimental course replaced 20 minutes of traditional methods, each class, with an intervention of elementary mathematics content. The difference between groups…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Liu, Fuchang – Education, 2008
This study investigated the impact of online discussion of anxiety towards teaching mathematics (ATTM) on elementary teacher candidates' ATTM. Participants (N = 39) in elementary mathematics methods classes completed Anxiety Towards Teaching Mathematics Questionnaire immediately before and after 8 weeks of online discussion of ATTM. It was found…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Mathematics Instruction, Anxiety
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Star, Jon R.; Strickland, Sharon K. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2008
Video has assumed an increasingly prominent role in teacher education, particularly in the form of the viewing of videotaped class lessons by preservice teachers. Yet there is little research that confirms whether preservice teachers attend to the aspects of the video(s) that teacher educators anticipate or desire. This article explores this issue…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Observation
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Ray, Beverly; Coulter, Gail A. – Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 2010
This research examined the change in the perceptions of preservice teachers regarding the use of digital minigames to support middle school level social studies learning. The results of a Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test for matched pairs revealed that participants' (N = 18) perceptions were positively modified by participation in a series of digital…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle Schools, Elementary Education, Educational Games
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Gibbs, Paul; Costley, Carol; Armsby, Pauline; Trakakis, Aletia – Teaching in Higher Education, 2007
Engaging with research methods requires, we argue, not only adherence to ethical codes of conduct, but caring for the researched. Researchers, who are also workers in the same organisation or community where the research will take place, have an additional duty not to violate the dignity of the researched, and that is the ethic of care. We discuss…
Descriptors: Researchers, Research Methodology, Methods Courses, Diaries
Fortney, Brian Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigates how preservice teachers make sense of student-centered instruction with existing traditional beliefs about teaching. Teacher educators assume that university instruction translates directly into practice, yet, research is clear that beginning teachers revert to traditional teaching practice. For elementary teachers, one…
Descriptors: Student Centered Curriculum, Student Attitudes, Attitude Change, Preservice Teacher Education
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