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Hong, Seong Bock; McNair, Shannon – Journal of Early Education and Family Review, 2003
Describes how engaging preservice and inservice teachers in the process of documenting children's learning in preschool and primary classrooms enhances learning, promotes reflective thinking, and encourages professional growth. Explains that documentation provides teachers opportunities to observe children more closely; focus on children's…
Descriptors: College Students, Documentation, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
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Hudson, Peter – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2004
The transition from generic mentoring to specific mentoring practices can provide a stronger focus for developing preservice primary teachers (mentees) in subject-specific areas. Constructivist theory and a five-factor model towards specific subject mentoring are proposed as ways to develop mentees' teaching practices. Firstly, constructivist…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, Mentors, Constructivism (Learning)
Chant, Richard H.; Heafner, Tina L.; Bennett, Kristin R. – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2004
Many educators have suggested that teachers hold the authority, and thus the responsibility, for initiating the curricular and instructional changes made within their own classrooms. One implication of this suggestion is that teachers be reflective about their practice. Yet, reflection is a difficult process that requires critical thought,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum Development, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Hardre, Patricia L.; Chen, Ching-Huei – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2005
This research study examined the role of instructional design knowledge in the development of teaching expertise for university teaching assistants (TAs). ID theoretically supports the development of systematic and meaningful patterns of cognitive organization that characterize teaching expertise. Therefore, it should support TAs in developing…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Individual Differences, Educational Change, Teaching Assistants
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Littman, Linda L. – English Journal, 2003
The author discusses the power of personal narratives to help writers not only improve their writing and understand themselves but also think more critically. Through poetry that grew from her impulse for narrative, the author reveals her growth as a teacher who was simultaneously learning about students' growth and change. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Writing Improvement, Personal Narratives, Poetry, Critical Thinking
Kosnik, Clare; Beck, Clive – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2003
Much has been written in recent decades about the importance of community in education. According to some of the literature, a solution to the lack of community in preservice education might lie in the creation of "cohort programs," in which a relatively small number of student teachers engage in their coursework and (insofar as possible) their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Teacher Education Programs
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Jaruszewicz, Candace – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2005
Teaching from an informed and culturally responsive philosophy of education is critical for teaching in the 21st century and engagement in reconceptualizing the field of early childhood. This article describes a process used with graduate preservice early childhood education students over a two-course sequence, to generate a personal philosophy…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Content Analysis
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White, Cameron – Social Studies, 2002
Although many nations are struggling with social studies, especially when addressing basic goals, ideas of citizenship, and developing and understanding global perspectives, it is New Zealand that provides an interesting case regarding social studies for social efficacy and global understanding. In this article, the author investigates the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hidden Curriculum, Social Studies, Citizenship
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Peled, Irit; Hershkovitz, Sara – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2004
This study describes the learning of researchers who engage in mathematics teacher education as an integral part of their practice. As teacher educators working with teachers on the subject of proportional reasoning, the authors reflected on teachers solutions to a standard problem and analyzed answers that would conventionally be considered…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Problem Solving, Mathematics Teachers, Researchers
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Fierros, Edward Garcia; Foley, Jean Ann – Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 2006
This research examines the use of technology to create a relationship between student teachers and preservice teachers as they navigate the union of practice and theory within the two contexts of a teacher education course and student teaching practicum. Technology was used to create a safe haven where students could explore their respective…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Reflective Teaching, Theory Practice Relationship, Teacher Education Curriculum
Feldman, Allan – 1995
A self-study is reported in which the researcher explored the possibility of using a university course on action research to promote the development of professional community, an examination of power relations, and a sense of recognition among teachers enrolled in the course of their own expertise. Approximately 20 participating teachers in each…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cooperative Learning, Discussion Groups, Education Courses
Ferry, Natalie M. – 1995
A qualitative study documented the use of reflection-in-action by adult educators in problematic situations. Its focus was to investigate the mental processes involved in problem solving. Since individuals engage problem situations from a personal conceptualization that is unobservable, qualitative interviewing was used to provide respondents with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Beginning Teachers, Critical Thinking
Jensen, Rita A.; And Others – 1994
Even though videotape technology has been found to be an effective tool for evaluation of student teachers, this technology is often not used to assess performance in preservice clinical experiences. The purpose of this study was to explore the use of video technology as a tool for reflection in teacher education. In the study, student teachers…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Dutt, Karen M.; And Others – 1995
This study at a midwestern, private, liberal arts college compared undergraduate student reactions in an educational psychology course between students whose reading assignments were in a conventional textbook vs. those of students whose reading assignments made use of primary sources, such as original research or case studies. At the end of each…
Descriptors: College Students, Curriculum Design, Educational Psychology, Higher Education
Merryfield, Merry M. – 1994
Classroom teachers and teacher educators involved in implementing global education in schools have described their efforts as making connections across cultures and civilizations and across global issues instead of teaching them separately; identifying historical antecedents to current world issues and problems; linking global content to the lives…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Thinking, Cultural Pluralism, Decision Making
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