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Caleb P. Hood; Yan Yan – Texas Association for Literacy Education Yearbook, 2024
The purpose of this study was to assess preservice teachers' comfort levels and familiarity with the teaching competencies embedded in the Texas Reading Academy curriculum. Participants in this study were eight clinical teachers involved in a pilot program with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), which was evaluating the feasibility of extending…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Competencies, Reading Instruction, Content Area Reading
Bullock, Emma; Ray, Amy; Herron, Julie; Swarthout, Mary – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2021
In this qualitative, grounded theory, pedagogical action research study, we, as mathematics teacher educators, sought to develop a conceptual framework in which we could help elementary pre-service teachers (PSTs) construct understanding of, and then fluently use, mathematics vocabulary essential to PSTs' future work as elementary teachers. The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Vocabulary Development
Jennifer L. Bumble; Magen Rooney-Kron; Carly B. Gilson; Kelli A. Sanderson; April Regester – Teacher Education and Special Education, 2023
Special education teachers play an integral role in preparing students with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) for a successful transition to their desired postsecondary pathways. As more opportunities arise for students with IDD to attend inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs, there is a growing need for special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Inclusion, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities
Beachy, Rachel; Guo, Daibao; Wright, Katherine Landau; McTigue, Erin M. – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2023
Despite many calls, there is little research addressing teachers' knowledge of reading assessments and how they utilize assessments for reading instruction. Therefore, the current research developed and validated a reliable measure of teachers' perceptions and knowledge of reading assessments, called the "Perceptions and Knowledge of…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers, Preschool Teachers, High School Teachers
Roxy D. Glass – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study was designed to investigate whether teacher literacy content knowledge affects student achievement in Texas schools. Teacher participants from Texas public schools completed a three-part survey. In Parts 1 and 2, teachers completed a demographic section and teacher knowledge of foundational reading skills. The survey consisted of…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Legislation, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Stephanie Atchley; Jim Gentry; Juanita Reyes; Jennifer Phillips – Education Leadership Review, 2024
The number of English learners (ELs) in school districts is climbing nationwide, and these students are being taught by teachers who may or may not have the knowledge base or training to provide effective instruction (Johnston & Young, 2019). This exploratory, descriptive study examined the self-efficacy of EL program directors and EL teachers…
Descriptors: English Learners, Teacher Effectiveness, School Districts, Enrollment Trends
Lumbreras, Ricardo, Jr.; Rupley, William H. – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
This study focused on preservice secondary teacher's use of the Understanding by Design (UbD), framework to create effective, engaging lessons for their future secondary level students. The subjects consisted of 69 secondary pre-service secondary education majors at a Texas University who were enrolled in a required course for admission into the…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Lesson Plans, Pretests Posttests, Vocabulary Development
National Council on Teacher Quality, 2020
All but four states in the nation now permit teachers to come into the profession through an "alternate route," compared to only a few 30 years ago. Alternate routes into the classroom have grown so acceptable that about one in five teachers now enters the profession through one of these programs, which offer some real benefits to the…
Descriptors: Alternative Teacher Certification, State Standards, Admission Criteria, Teacher Competency Testing
Aguirre-Muñoz, Zenaida; Yeter, Ibrahim H.; S. Loria Garro, Elias; Koca, Fatih – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2021
Despite the impetus from professional organizations for science and mathematics integration, few teacher training programs provide opportunities for teachers to develop the knowledge and skills in effective content integration. This study reports on the impact of a graduate course on in-service middle school, math, and science teachers'…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers, Science Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Wetzel, Melissa Mosley; Hoffman, James V.; Roach, Audra K.; Russell, Katie – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2018
This longitudinal study explores how one university's practice-based teacher preparation program prepared literacy teachers to develop practical knowledge for teaching and how that knowledge was tested and adapted in the first years of teaching. To understand change, we identified and analyzed points of tension, challenge, or dissonance in the…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Reflection, Teacher Education Programs, Longitudinal Studies
McElhone, Dot; Tenore, F. Blake; Davis, Dennis S. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2017
This research examines the specialized knowledge of reading comprehension articulated by 12 middle school English language arts teachers sampled from three different regions of the United States and representing various levels of teaching experience. Using detailed interviews, concept mapping, and think aloud methods, we identified salient…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, English, Language Arts, Teaching Methods
Dunlap, Karen; Piro, Jody S. – Cogent Education, 2016
Educators by definition are now required to utilize a variety of student data to shape the decisions they make and design the lessons they teach. As accountability standards become more stringent and as teachers face increasingly diverse student populations within their classrooms, they often struggle to adequately meet the needs of all learners.…
Descriptors: Data, Information Literacy, Teaching Skills, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Lieberman, Abbie; Cook, Shayna; Jackson, Sarah – New America, 2018
There are multiple explanations for why many children do not have access to well-prepared pre-K teachers. The five programs profiled in this report show that it is possible to give pre-K teachers rich, research-based training that prepares them to work with young children. However, there is a scarcity of opportunities focused on the developmental…
Descriptors: Teacher Competencies, Preschool Teachers, Preschool Education, Kindergarten
Jayanthi, Madhavi; Dimino, Joseph; Gersten, Russell; Taylor, Mary Jo; Haymond, Kelly; Smolkowski, Keith; Newman-Gonchar, Rebecca – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2018
The purpose of this replication study was to examine the impact of the Teacher Study Group (TSG) professional development in vocabulary on first-grade teachers' knowledge of vocabulary instruction and observed teaching practice, and on students' vocabulary knowledge. Sixty-two schools from 16 districts in four states were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods, Faculty Development, Grade 1
Pawlowicz, Rachel; Grunden, Walter E. – History Teacher, 2015
Educators at the secondary school level who teach History, or Integrated Social Studies more broadly, may be expected to possess at least some passing knowledge of the Holocaust, the genocide perpetrated against European Jews by Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Yet, when it comes to the Pacific War and Japanese war crimes and atrocities…
Descriptors: History Instruction, European History, World History, Secondary School Curriculum