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Herman, Keith C.; Reinke, Wendy M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
For children with the most serious and persistent academic and behavior problems, parent involvement in education, particularly teacher perceptions of involvement, is essential to avert their expected long-term negative outcomes. Despite the widespread interest in and perceived importance of parent involvement in education, however, few…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Parent Participation, Randomized Controlled Trials, Program Effectiveness
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Rashidi, Naser; Meihami, Hussein – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2017
Teachers' cultural identity is among the forepart issues within the realm of teacher education studies. The research about teachers' identity has been done using teacher-authored narratives. That said, the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of negotiation in the student-teachers' cultural identity formation. To that end, three…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Personal Narratives, Self Concept
Thibault, Malissa – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As evidenced in the growing achievement gap between English language learners (ELLs) and their non-ELL counterparts, it is clear future teachers need to be better prepared to work with ELLs. This study examined the influence of infusing ELL strategies into methods courses through instructional coaching. This study was inspired by the larger…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, English Language Learners, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Programs
Bertrand, Shamaine Kyann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study shares the perspectives of current elementary education teacher candidates with field and/or internship experiences in Title I schools. It provides some insight into the points of view of these teacher candidates who are able to inform teacher preparation programs about working with students from impoverished backgrounds. There is value…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Poverty
Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2017
A key focus area for the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) is ensuring equitable access to effective teachers for all students in the state (MDE, 2016, 2017b). To achieve this vision, however, MDE recognizes that it must first address persistent teacher shortages in regions of the state and in specific subject areas (U.S. Department of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Student Teaching, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
Ringer, Joanne L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Public education and teachers are under considerable scrutiny (Gibboney, 2008). With the inception of local, state, and national demands being placed on education, teachers are faced with many challenges (Eppley, 2015). Educational accountability measures have grown out of the political pressures impacting educational policies (Gibboney, 2008).…
Descriptors: Accountability, Teaching Conditions, Stress Variables, Teacher Attitudes
California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, 2017
The Commission on Teacher Credentialing's current "Accreditation Framework" was adopted in 2006. The accreditation system is the primary means by which the Commission ensures quality in educator preparation in California. The system is designed as a 7 year cycle comprised of three major components or activities: (1) biennial reports; (2)…
Descriptors: Credentials, Teacher Certification, Teacher Qualifications, Accountability
Brennan, Jan – Education Commission of the States, 2017
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) builds upon recent state efforts to reinvigorate the commitment of education to prepare students, not just for college and career, but also for citizenship and full participation in democratic life. This report outlines how ESSA strengthens opportunities for states to expand and support civic learning and…
Descriptors: Civics, Citizenship Education, Educational Trends, Democratic Values
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Journell, Wayne – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Using narrative inquiry methods, this study presents findings from seven politically conservative teachers reflecting on their experience in a teacher education program that they perceived to be ideologically liberal. All of the participants recollected falling into a spiral of silence (Noelle-Neumann, 1993) during their teacher education courses…
Descriptors: Political Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs
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Buzdar, Muhammad Ayub; Ali, Akhtar – International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2013
The current study aims to investigate the possibilities of developing reflective thinking among learners through distance education programs. The case of Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) Islamabad, Pakistan is examined to achieve this task. The study is based on Mezirow's theory of reflective thinking, which divides thinking in four categories.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reflection, Distance Education, Teacher Education Programs
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Zimpher, Nancy L.; Howey, Kenneth R. – Education, 2013
Considering the importance of education in the life of a 21st-century person, it is remarkable that the training of teachers continues to be as inconsistent, and in many cases, as lackadaisical, as it is. For all the evidence indicating that excellent teachers rank high on the list of factors essential to student success, one would expect that…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Schools of Education, Curriculum Study Centers
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Huh, Myung-Hye; Lee, Inhwan – English Teaching, 2019
This study investigated EFL college students' culture-related templates of written texts along the possibility of inter-cultural transfer. We designed a case study to explore how certain cultural assumptions contribute to EFL students' rhetorical decisions while writing an argumentative writing. The participants were four EFL college students.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Writing (Composition), College Students, Second Language Learning
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Carney, Joanne; Chu, Marilyn; Green, Jennifer; Nutting, William; Donnelly, Susan; Clancy, Andrea; Buly, Marsha Riddle; Carroll, David – Teachers College Record, 2019
Background/Context: The challenges documented in the literature on research-practice partnerships and similar school-university collaborations are outlined in the literature review in this issue. Yet only a collaboration among multiple educational and community organizations could create a synergy powerful enough to achieve the multifaceted goals…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
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Benavides Jimenez, Fabián; Mora Acosta, Yenny Lisbeth – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2019
This article provides an overview of the ideas that two groups of bilingual teachers from different contexts, one indigenous and the other Western, have about the concepts of education, bilingualism, and interculturality. Their opinions were gathered through focus groups, semi-structured interviews, and videos, and reviewed under light of what the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Bilingual Teachers, American Indians, Western Civilization
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Rubin, Joan – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2019
Since Ecuador has determined that it wants to be fully bilingual in ten years, this paper describes the experience of a Fulbright Scholar at a university Language Center in Quito; one helping language teachers improve the language learning skills of their students. The theoretical framework for this work comes from Learner Self-Management (LSM) or…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Self Management, Foreign Countries, Bilingualism
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