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Holton, John T.; Nott, Deborah – 1980
In the spring of 1979, an experimental study was conducted to evaluate the possible effects on preservice teachers of Reflective Teaching, a new instructional alternative for teacher education that features peer teaching and evaluation. One of the hypotheses about Reflective Teaching stated that, as a result of engaging in Reflective Teaching,…
Descriptors: Conceptual Tempo, Data Analysis, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
Bartell, Carol A. – Corwin Press, 2004
The first few years of teaching are the most challenging. During these years, teachers are most likely to become discouraged and disillusioned. Yet these early years are also the time when teachers establish practices that last throughout their careers. This book focuses on new teachers' needs while emphasizing high-quality teaching through the…
Descriptors: Teacher Persistence, Mentors, Beginning Teacher Induction, Beginning Teachers
Byram, Michael, Ed.; Grundy, Peter, Ed. – 2003
This collection of papers examines how the contexts in which language teaching occurs impact the aims and methods of language teaching. Ten papers focus on the following: "Introduction: Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning" (Mike Byram and Peter Grundy); "From Practice to Theory and Back Again" (Claire…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Biculturalism, Context Effect, Cultural Awareness
Axiak, Cettina – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This study is about student teachers using questioning to explore the mathematical reasoning of secondary school students aged between 11 and 14 years of age. The student teachers involved were first year students following a four years' initial teaching training course in Malta. The Teaching Triad developed by Barbara Jarowski was used to analyze…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teachers, Reflective Teaching, Student Needs
Cruickshank, Donald R. – 1996
This book provides an overview of the modal curriculum in teacher education, summarizing 29 teacher education reform proposals and examining six instructional approaches to teacher education. Chapter 1 describes the modal teacher preparation curriculum (general studies, content studies, professional education, integrative studies, and guidelines…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Curriculum Development, Educational Change
Burke, Lisa Maria – 2002
This guide creates a step-by-step sequence of practical techniques, based on research on successful teaching and grounded in real-life examples, that guide teachers toward an effective action plan for successful teaching and classroom management. The manual's suggestions give teachers the skills and tactics necessary to manage, control, and enrich…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education
Collins, Lisa; White, George P. – 2002
A federally-funded 3-year project supported 39 principal certification students at Lehigh University to be trained in leading and managing building-based special education programs with an emphasis on inclusion of students with emotional and behavioral disorders. Recruitment for the program was both regional and national. This final report…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Beginning Principals, Disabilities, Educational Administration
Kim, Young-soo; Germann, Paul J.; Patton, Martha – 1998
This paper reports on the analysis of concept maps of the nature of science constructed by preservice secondary science teachers during a semester-long reflective process. During the 16-week fall semester of 1996, 17 students were enrolled in a 5-credit course. After analyzing all students' concept maps, students were classified as either good…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Mapping, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Strategies
McDuffie, Amy Roth – 2001
This study examined the efficacy of a student teaching internship component of a teacher education program in fostering the development of reflective practitioners by investigating the experiences of preservice teachers in the program. The study noted the extent to which the various requirements of the student teachers' internships (e.g., journal…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Field Experience Programs, Graduate Study
Handler, June Moss – 2003
This book explores how young children, within their cultural imperatives, struggle to discover who they are as cultural "members" interacting with others, as "makers" trying out and creating, and as "interpreters" making meaning and making new connections. Chapters in Part 1 emphasize the significance of a…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Care, Child Development, Cultural Influences
Dana, Nancy; Silva, Diane Yendol – 2000
This paper presents a model of supervision that examines and informs the understanding of professional development within a Professional Development School (PDS) context. It offers a theoretically-based model for supervision, drawing on three bodies of literature (supervision, teacher inquiry, and PDSs). The study constructed and explored a model…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Inquiry
Wellman, Elizabeth – 2002
The California History-Social Science Project (CH-SSP), a legislatively-mandated professional development program is administered out of the University of California, Office of the President. The Executive Offices are based at UCLA, and oversee 17 local sites across California. As part of its mission, CH-SSP engages teachers in action research on…
Descriptors: Action Research, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Reali, Aline Maria de Medeiros Rodrigues; Mizukami, Maria da Graca Nicoletti – 2000
This study analyzed aspects of a knowledge base for teaching and ways that teachers understood and described the required student knowledge base, highlighting the construction of a knowledge base for elementary teaching. Participants were elementary teachers and staff from one Brazilian elementary school. Teachers wrote reports on what they…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers
Ediger, Marlow – 2000
This document proposes that preservice teachers assess various learning philosophies to find methods that may be useful in teaching at the higher education level. In the first section of the paper ten broad principles of teaching are cited: developing and maintaining student interest; motivating learners; providing useful learning opportunities;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behaviorism, Curriculum Evaluation, Educational Objectives
Crotty, Teri; Allyn, Debra – 2001
This paper traces the development of guidelines to help education instructors effectively evaluate and provide guided practice for student teachers as they reflect on their professional work. The University of Wisconsin River Falls requires student teachers to videotape their teaching experiences, then reflect on how, why, and where they meet…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Developmental Stages, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods
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