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Franke, Anita; Dahlgren, Lars Owe – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1996
To determine conceptions of mentoring, Swedish researchers videotaped mentoring sessions between student teachers and their cooperating teachers and conducted interviews with both groups. Data analysis indicated that the two groups had different conceptions about the function of mentoring and its content and form. (SM)
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Kroll, Linda Ruth; LaBoskey, Vicki Kubler – Action in Teacher Education, 1996
Describes a teacher education program that provides multiple opportunities for preservice teachers to construct and reflect on learning to teach. The program emphasizes helping teachers to see themselves as learners, as teachers of content, and as researchers. Examples of course work and assignments that reflect a constructivist perspective are…
Descriptors: College Students, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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O'Donoghue, Thomas A.; Brooker, Ross – Journal of Teacher Education, 1996
Presents a literature review on reflective thinking in reference to teaching and teacher education and reports findings of a study at one Australian university that investigated the importance of supervisors promoting reflection in meetings between supervisors and student teachers before and after practice teaching. Recommendations for teacher…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Marble, Stephen – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1997
Three teams of prospective teachers created and presented school "portraits" based on research in an elementary school. Their stories revealed that each team moved from an external point of view to one situated in the actions of teaching. Their efforts to construct their own stories had a powerful impact on their knowledge, relationships…
Descriptors: Collegiality, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Masters Degrees
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Salzman, James A.; Snodgrass, Donna – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2003
A year-long action-research graduate seminar was based on the collaboration of the school district, university, and participating teachers. One year later, 16 participating teacher-researchers reported that they were more competent consumers and producers of educational research. Individual effects ranged from subtle impacts on teachers'…
Descriptors: Action Research, College School Cooperation, Educational Research, Followup Studies
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Perpignan, Hadara – Language Teaching Research, 2003
Illustrates the potential of Exploratory Practice (EP), a form of practitioner research, for doctoral research. Emphasizes learners as well as teacher understanding and explores quality in interpersonal relationships. Reports on research conducted in an English-as-a-Foreign-Language academic writing context, about a written dialogue between a…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Doctoral Programs, English (Second Language), Feedback
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Grisham, Dana L.; Berg, Marlowe; Jacobs, Victoria R.; Mathison, Carla – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2002
Evaluated the Model Education Center (MEC) Professional Development School after 15 years of existence. Focus group data were collected from teachers at the MEC. Results found that 15 years after implementation, the MEC's core beliefs of collaboration, reflective thinking, risk taking, and continuous learning were still reflected in the climates…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
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Tsangaridou, Niki; O'Sullivan, Mary – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 1994
Reports a study that examined how specific reflective pedagogical strategies influenced preservice physical educators to reflect on practice. Six students participated in groups that promoted one of two levels of reflection. Results supported the positive influence of new pedagogical reflective strategies in promoting preservice teachers'…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Higher Education, Journal Writing, Majors (Students)
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Scheibelhut, Carolyn – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1994
Describes the use of writing assignments for preservice teachers to help them reflect on the teaching and learning process in their internship classrooms. (MKR)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Mathematics Instruction
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Farber, Kathleen S.; Armaline, William D. – Teaching Education, 1992
Teaching pedagogy involves more than applying techniques of curriculum and instructional development in the classroom. Metaphors of teaching are used to explore hidden assumptions about teaching, learning, knowledge, production, and culture embedded in traditional teaching paradigms. The role and function of teachers, given the differing…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education, Feminism, Higher Education
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Davis, Brenda M.; Buttafuso, Debra – Journal of Teacher Education, 1994
A case study of an elementary teacher who received preservice preparation at a small liberal arts college assessed teaching effectiveness and its relationship to liberal arts curriculum goals. Qualitative and quantifiable data supported the value of preservice programs at similar institutions and provided evidence of the teacher's inquiring,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Education Courses, Educational Objectives, Elementary Education
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Thomas, Julie Anne; Montgomery, Pat – Journal of Teacher Education, 1998
Examines one professor's beginning as a reflective practitioner who practiced critical reflection in teaching and learning, highlighting research on students' beliefs about good teacher characteristics. Interviews with and observations of elementary students examined their beliefs about what characteristics made a good teacher. Results indicated…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Humor
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Munby, Hugh; Hutchinson, Nancy – Teacher Education and Special Education, 1998
Describes an experience-based teacher-education program at Queen's University (Ontario), including the program's theoretical background and its emphasis on inclusion of special-needs children. Two case studies prepared by teachers from their 14-week practicum experiences are presented. (DB)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Experiential Learning
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Moore, Rita A.; Bartlett, Amy; Garrison, LaTresha; Hagemo, Kristie; Mullaney, Jennifer; Murfitt, Ashlee; Smith, Shelly – Teacher Educator, 1999
During an eight-week field experience, six preservice teachers designed and facilitated an integrated inquiry unit for fifth graders. During this experience, they investigated their effectiveness in implementing the inquiry approach to teaching based on pupils' learning responses. Reflecting on teaching behaviors through reflective classroom…
Descriptors: Action Research, Curriculum Development, Field Experience Programs, Grade 5
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Herr, Kathryn – Language Arts, 1999
Recounts the complications that arose when the author's teacher research began to focus on issues of institutional racism within the school in which she worked. Discusses the politics of studying one's own site, and the dilemmas and risks in that process. Explores the issues involved in teacher research that is oriented toward school change and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Change Agents, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
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