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Shealy, Barry E. – 1993
This paper describes mathematical modeling activities from a secondary mathematics teacher education course taken by fourth-year university students. Experiences with mathematical modeling are viewed as important in helping teachers develop a more intuitive understanding of mathematics, generate and evaluate mathematical interpretations, and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Activities, Mathematical Applications, Mathematical Models
Wilkinson, Gayle A. – 1994
This study investigated the impact of administrators' constructive comments to preservice teachers about their micro-teaching demonstration. The project used a research model that concentrated on cognitive changes rather than changes in behavior and that used images of growth rather than measurable changes. It attempted to facilitate reflection,…
Descriptors: Administrators, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback, Field Experience Programs
Volkman, Beatrice K.; And Others – 1992
The study described in this report investigated the effects of field-based reflective practice on preservice teachers' sense of self-efficacy. Subjects in the study were 24 senior elementary majors participating in a 4-week field experience. Twelve students were assigned to the experimental school and 12 were assigned to two control schools. Each…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Cooperating Teachers, Education Majors, Educational Practices
Ash, Tom – 1993
The purpose of the documents in this series is to provide educators in Saskatchewan with practical and relevant guides to teaching and learning as a means of expanding or refining teaching repertoires. This booklet explores reflection, a form of problem solving in which one tries better to understand and solve problems or concerns of personal…
Descriptors: Decision Making Skills, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education
Torrez, Nena – 1999
This paper discusses development of the Crosscultural, Language, and Academic Development (CLAD) credential in California's preservice teacher education. CLAD focuses on first and second language development, educational equity, linguistic and cultural diversity, equal access to core curriculum, respect for cultural and linguistic issues,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Collegiality, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student)
Scheirer, Elinor A. – 1998
This 2-year qualitative action research project focused on improving the experiences within several sections of an advanced methods course in an undergraduate elementary teacher preparation program. The course stressed preservice teachers' developing conceptions of curriculum and of their roles in defining the nature of the curricula they will…
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Faculty Development
Lee, Elizabeth A. – 1992
The teacher's role and his or her understanding of it in the learning situation is one variable that needs to be included in any discussion of educational intervention. Bereiter and Scardamalia's (1991) teaching models provide a matrix for organizing teachers' classroom practice. Briefly, each model can be understood as a different view on the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Classroom Research, Elementary Education
Rasch, Katharine; And Others – 1992
Maryville University (Missouri) believes in training competent beginning teachers who understand that all children can learn. Regarding mathematics, prospective teachers must often be convinced they can learn it themselves. Because most students do not have much math preparation, do not like it, and have great misconceptions, Maryville assumes…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Bagheri, Hooshi; And Others – 1991
The goal of teacher education is to prepare prospective teachers to become reflective practitioners who are able to make pedagogical decisions in light of sound theory. This report describes a model for integrating science and mathematics methods with student teaching. Efforts to maintain a critical bond between theory and practice is one…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Integrated Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction
Pape, Sharon L.; Kelly, Francis J. – 1990
The questions proposed by this study were: (1) Do students in the teacher preparation program develop relativistic thinking in the present course of their teacher preparation studies? and (2) Would a written modified reflective judgment interview be feasible as a screening device to help educators assess the development of reflective judgment in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Coherence, Discourse Modes, Divergent Thinking
Shedd, Joseph B.; And Others – 1986
Scholars working from various perspectives are beginning to define teaching as a decision-making process. Research shows that teachers are reflective and connect knowledge to situations through observation, understanding, analysis, interpretation, and decision-making. This paper provides empirical evidence to show the relationship of…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education, Occupational Surveys
MacKinnon, Allan M. – 1985
Designed as an analytic, exploratory inquiry into the manner in which preservice elementary school teachers make sense of their early science teaching performances, this study focused on how teachers exhibited a capacity for understanding pedagogy. Specifically, it concentrated on the reflective process as it occurred in the context of clinical…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers, Field Interviews
Shrader, Greg; Gomez, Louis – 1997
This paper examines the implementation of the CoVis Project in three schools. CoVis is a national Secondary School Science Education Testbed designed to promote project-based pedagogy supported by facilitative technology through reflective learning. The reflective learning that these three schools engaged in while enacting CoVis is examined in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Resources, Educational Technology
Ferraro, Joan M. – 2000
Reflective practice can be beneficial to preservice and inservice teacher professional development. This digest reviews the concept, levels, techniques for, and benefits of reflective practice. Donald Schon introduced the concept in 1987, and since then, many schools, colleges, and departments of education have begun designing teacher education…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Higher Education
Podmore, Valerie N.; Meade, Anne – 2000
Noting that research demonstrates that high quality early childhood education (ECE) has long-term benefits for children, this review outlines definitions of quality early childhood education within the context of New Zealand. The focus is mainly on two specific aspects of quality: staff qualifications and indicators of quality. The review notes…
Descriptors: Definitions, Early Childhood Education, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries
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