This self-study examined the 1st-year science teacher educator's integration of instructional technology into a science methods course and modeled the reflective practice of her own teaching. Elementary science methods students participated in a series of inquiry-based activities that utilized various instructional technologies. Data sources…

In this article, the authors describe a cross course collaborative research project designed to provide students with an opportunity to integrate aspects of sociological study that are typically addressed in a compartmentalized course by course manner. They used this approach on two separate occasions. The first involved collaboration between a…

Many teachers shy away from teaching their students ethics. Yet American educators are concerned that students are coming into their classes with unacceptable ethical standards. Teaching ethics is important to the intellectual growth of high school seniors, as their departure from home to college or career is imminent. Social studies is a…

The purpose of this study was to identify the literacy knowledge, beliefs and self-efficacy of 52 undergraduate elementary pre-service teachers prior to and at the conclusion of a reading methods course. The teacher candidates completed the Theoretical Orientation to Reading Profile (TORP, DeFord, 1985), the Teacher Self Efficacy Literacy Scale…

The purpose of this study was to look at the use of the case method approach in relation to the preferred learning style of students in an elementary science methods course. Ninety-seven students enrolled in an elementary and elementary/middle level science methods course at Midwest university participated in this study. Participants completed a…

This investigation assessed the impact of situating explicit nature of science (NOS) instruction within the issues surrounding global climate change and global warming (GCC/GW). Participants in the study were 15 preservice elementary teachers enrolled in a science methods course. The instructional intervention included explicit NOS instruction…

Black-oriented radio stations are a valuable resource for the white teacher needing familiarity with Black idioms. (JH)

Instructional models are distinct sets of sequenced teaching actions created to promote student achievement of selected learning outcomes. They identify: (1) the type of information to be presented to students; (2) the sequence in which it should be presented; (3) the teaching tactics that stimulate necessary cognitive learning processes; and (4)…

Investigated was the validity and reliability of a self-evaluation instrument. Two samples, totaling 104 students, were drawn from a population of prospective elementary teachers at Colorado State College. One sample was taught by the lecture method, the other by a non-lecture method. The self-evaluation instrument (SEA) was administered at the…

The impact of feedback and the effect of practice with either children or with peers on student teacher's attainment of specific teaching competencies were examined. The specific competencies were identified as maintaining teacher-pupil interaction, developing teacher-pupil repport, pacing the lesson, clarity of presentation, and the use of…

An experimental course was conducted to test three products that may be included in the Systematic Teacher Training Model being developed by the Stanford Center for Research and Development in Teaching Program on Teaching Effectiveness. The subjects were 14 intern teachers enrolled in the Stanford Secondary Teacher Education Program, the interns'…

This publication for methods instructors contains articles dealing with science education in elementary schools. Titles of articles appearing in this issue are: The Unit Box Approach, Let's Take Science Out of the Mouths of the Teacher and Put It into the Hands of the Child, Environmental Education and the Inservice Teacher, A Comparison of Two…

Research was undertaken to compare the attitudes toward instructional media of seconeary education majors who took a full course in media with those of comparable students who received an introduction to media as part of a general methods course. Based on the previous findings that improved attitude led to improved and more effective utilization,…

The Experimental Student Teaching/Differentiated Staffing Program involved hiring selected elementary education students in their senior year as half-day teacher aides for the full public school year. Within this program, teaching methods courses were conducted at the site by university personnel on selected afternoons during the fall semester;…