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50 Years of ERIC
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Tillema, Harm H.; Smith, Kari; Leshem, Shosh – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Despite considerable attention given to mentoring in initial teacher education little is known about mutual perspectives in perceptions of students and mentors regarding assessment and how this affects the quality of the student's teaching. Perceptions of assessment during practicum might impede the learning dialogue during mentoring and affect…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Practicums, Mentors
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Roness, Dag; Smith, Kari – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
This article analyses the results from a study conducted among the total population of full-time Postgraduate Certificate in Education course (PGCE) students in Norwegian universities (N = 283) in the autumn of 2006. The students responded to a questionnaire examining their motivation to take the PGCE course and their motivation to become…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Teaching (Occupation), Education Courses, Labor Market
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Smith, Kari; Welicker-Pollak, Miriam – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2008
This article examines teacher educators' attitudes to standardised student feedback on the quality of their teaching in a teacher education college in Israel. It is part of a comprehensive study initiated by the management of the institution, and the focus in this writing is on teacher educators' attitudes to student feedback: the way they…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Preservice Teachers
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Smith, Kari; Sela, Orly – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2005
The first part of this paper describes the rationale for and process of engaging student teachers in action research during the fourth and final year of their teacher education, which is also their first year as teachers (induction year). During this year the novice teachers are engaged in an action research project as a compulsory assignment in…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Action Research, Preservice Teacher Education
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Snoek, Marco; Baldwin, Gavin; Cautreels, Paul; Enemaerke, Torsten; Halstead, Valerie; Hilton, Gillian; Klemp, Torunn; Leriche, Leo; Linde, Goran; Nilsen, Elisabeth; Rehn, Joran; Smet, Ronny; Smith, Kari; Sousa, Jesus Maria; Stomp, Lex; Svensson, Hans; and Svensson, Leif – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2003
Presents four scenarios that illustrate possible futures of teacher education in Europe. The scenarios differ in their emphasis on four driving forces: pragmatism, idealism, individualism, and social coherence. Each scenario is described in terms of characteristics of society, education/teacher education, and teacher/teacher educator roles and is…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Individualism
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Smith, Kari – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2003
Discusses incentives for teacher educators to engage in professional development, proposing examples of how teacher educators' professional development is initiated by individual teacher educators and occurs outside the teacher education institution and suggesting that systematic professional development is needed within the teacher education…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries, Higher Education