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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Improving Teacher Education through Longitudinal Research: How Studying Our Graduates Led Us to Give Priority to Program Planning and Vision for Teaching
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Kosnik, Clare; Beck, Clive; Cleovoulou, Yiola; Fletcher, Tim – Studying Teacher Education, 2009
As pre-service instructors, we turned to longitudinal study of our graduates as a primary means of finding out how our courses could better prepare student teachers for the challenging early years of teaching. In addition, we used other self-study methods, notably regular feedback from student teachers during the program. The study of 22 graduates…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Educators, Longitudinal Studies, Graduates
We Taught Them about Literacy but What Did They Learn? The Impact of a Preservice Teacher Education Program on the Practices of Beginning Teachers
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Kosnik, Clare; Beck, Clive – Studying Teacher Education, 2008
This article reports a study of literacy instruction in our own elementary preservice program. It examines the views and practices of both the preservice faculty who teach literacy and a sample of graduates of the program during their first three years of teaching. The new teachers reported learning many things from their preservice program,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Theory Practice Relationship, Literacy