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Does a Discussion by Any Other Name Sound the Same? Teaching Discussion in Three ELA Methods Courses
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Direct linkAlston, Chandra L.; Danielson, Katie A.; Dutro, Elizabeth; Cartun, Ashley – Journal of Teacher Education, 2018
Facilitating discussions in English Language Arts can develop students' skills as speakers and listeners and their ability to engage with diverse perspectives. However, classroom observations often demonstrate a lack of student talk, raising questions about the complexity of facilitating discussion and teachers' opportunities to learn and hone the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Discussion (Teaching Technique), English Instruction, Language Arts
Barnes, Meghan E.; Smagorinsky, Peter – Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
This study investigates the learning reported by a set of volunteer participants from three university teacher education programs: from one Southwestern U.S. University, the program in secondary English/Language Arts Education and the program in Elementary Education; and from one Southeastern U.S. University, the program in secondary…
Descriptors: English Instruction, Language Arts, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
Roberts, Sherron Killingsworth; Blanch, Norine; Gurjar, Nandita – Reading Horizons, 2017
Writing circles are "small groups... meeting regularly to share drafts, choose common writing topics, practice positive response, and in general, help each other become better writers" (Vopat, 2009, p. 6). In this exploratory study, writing circles were employed with elementary teacher candidates in hopes of enhancing their perceptions…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Preservice Teachers, Writing Workshops, Writing Skills
Download full textFalter Thomas, Angela; Sondergeld, Toni – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2015
This article investigates the impact of scaffolded feedback instruction provided through an undergraduate methods course. Because of a desire for preservice teachers to have online teaching experience and due to low performance scores in assessment on the edTPA, a project was created which partnered preservice teachers with middle-grades students.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Instructional Effectiveness, Preservice Teachers, Middle School Students
Morawski, Cynthia M. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2010
To help underscore the importance of giving the arts an integral place in the literacy continuum of secondary school language arts, I immersed myself in a careful reading of twenty teacher candidates' transactions in the art of body biography for novel study for intermediate students (grades 7-10). Coming together in groups of five, the teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Adolescent Literature
McIntosh, Janet E. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2010
Do novice teachers effectively use teaching strategies they learn in a preservice course? This study examines how five novice intermediate (Grades 7-10) English language arts teachers implemented reader response journals, an instructional activity they learned about in their preservice English methods course. During interviews, they shared the…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Journal Writing, Beginning Teachers, Novices
