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50 Years of ERIC
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Smith, Heather J. – Teaching Education, 2014
This paper examines the relationship between specific documentaries and white student teachers' emotional responses to their viewing as part of a postgraduate teacher education course on educational equality. Documentaries are considered in terms of features (including elements of text), form (including stylistic conventions) and function in…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Critical Viewing, Reflective Teaching, Documentaries
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Moos, Daniel C.; Pitton, Debra – Teaching Education, 2014
Cognitive load theory (CLT) can explain the challenges faced by student teachers. This study, guided by the CLT, included 26 pre-service teachers. Participants completed a cognitive load self-report questionnaire and were interviewed at two points during their student teaching. Results revealed that student teachers decreased mental effort related…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Questionnaires, Interviews
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Erbilgin, Evrim – Teaching Education, 2014
This article reports on how a program based on educative supervision supported the supervisory knowledge and practices of three cooperating teachers. The program was planned as a kind of practicum: the cooperating teachers participated in the program while working with a student teacher. The program included activities where the cooperating…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Practicum Supervision, Practicums, Cooperation
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Cuenca, Alexander – Teaching Education, 2014
Drawing on the work of Russian literary critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, this article explores how an inquiry-based social studies student teaching seminar helped three preservice teachers negotiate the pressures of standards-based reforms during student teaching. The author first examines how initial perceptions of standardization and high-stakes testing…
Descriptors: Accountability, Student Teaching, Inquiry, Seminars
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Goldstein, Tara – Teaching Education, 2014
While the call for teacher education students to learn about their students' family and community lives remains urgent and compelling, educating teachers about the Other is tricky business. In this article I discuss the use of two performed ethnographies, "Harriet's House" and "Ana's Shadow," to provide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Ethnography
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Philpott, Carey – Teaching Education, 2014
This paper reports on research into the ways in which student teachers' experiential learning is mediated by socioculturally situated narrative resources. The research uses Wertsch's idea of the narrative template as a co-author of individual narratives. This idea is developed to be useful in the particular context of initial teacher…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Student Teacher Attitudes, Experiential Learning, Personal Narratives
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Clarke, Anthony; Collins, John; Triggs, Valerie; Nielsen, Wendy; Augustine, Ann; Coulter, Dianne; Cunningham, Joni; Grigoriadis, Tina; Hardman, Stephanie; Hunter, Lee; Kinegal, Jane; Li, Bianca; Mah, Jeff; Mastin, Karen; Partridge, David; Pawer, Leonard; Rasoda,Sandy; Salbuvik, Kathleen; Ward, Mitch; White, Janet; Weil, Frederick – Teaching Education, 2012
We report on the origins, development and refinement of an online inventory to help cooperating teachers focus on selected dimensions of their practice. The Mentoring Profile Inventory (MPI) helps quantify important features of both the motivating and challenging aspects of mentoring student teachers and provides results to respondents in a…
Descriptors: Cooperating Teachers, Practicum Supervision, Mentors, Student Teachers
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Nolan, Kathleen; Walshaw, Margaret – Teaching Education, 2012
At the heart of contemporary teaching reform initiatives is a pedagogy based around inquiry. In this paper, we explore inquiry through the efforts of one pre-service teacher, Toni, during her practicum experience in a secondary mathematics classroom. We look at the ways in which she negotiates her practice amid intersecting stories of traditional…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Student Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Maclellan, Effie – Teaching Education, 2012
Against a background which recognises pedagogical content knowledge as the distinctive element of teacher competence/expertise, this theoretical essay argues for its central construct--that of transformation--to be understood by teachers and teacher educators in psychological terms (as was originally proposed by Dewey). Transformation requires…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, Metacognition, Student Teachers
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Brown, Amy; Westenskow, Arla; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia – Teaching Education, 2012
Over the last 50 years, there has been ample research dedicated to mathematics anxiety in contexts of teaching and learning. However, there has been less attention focused on pre-service teachers' anxieties about teaching mathematics in classroom settings. This study analyzed pre-service teachers' reflections at the conclusion of an elementary…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Locus of Control, Mathematics Instruction, Methods Courses
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He, Chuanjun; Yan, Chunmei – Teaching Education, 2011
This study examined the perspective of a cohort of 60 Chinese EFL pre-service teachers with regards to microteaching. Reflective paper writing was employed to explore the student teachers' perceptions of the experience. The study results show that microteaching was a useful tool for the pre-service teachers' professional development; however, the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Microteaching, Educational Experience
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Vagle, Mark D. – Teaching Education, 2011
The work of critical teacher education centers on making sure future teachers learn to be critically-oriented practitioners. In this article, I assert that this sort of learning must first begin with the critical teacher educators themselves, and that much of the most fruitful learning manifests itself in the teacher educator's compulsions.…
Descriptors: Teacher Centers, Teacher Educators, Teacher Education, Learning
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Gardiner, Wendy – Teaching Education, 2010
Research on peer placements suggests that partnering two preservice teachers with a mentor provides a better, more supportive context for learning to teach. As extant research has focused more on student teachers' development, less is known about mentors' perceptions and experiences. This qualitative study focuses on seven mentor teachers who have…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Mentors, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Placement
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Komur, Sevki – Teaching Education, 2010
What is the relationship between preservice teachers' teaching knowledge and self-rating of competencies and their practicum experience? The participants of this study are fourth year students in the Department of English Language Education of the Faculty of Education, Mugla University, Turkey. Three data collection instruments were used: the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Practicums, Measures (Individuals)
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Cuenca, Alexander – Teaching Education, 2010
The pedagogical work of university supervisors has received little attention in teacher education literature. Based on this concern, this paper provides a conceptual framework for university supervisors, recasting their role as teacher pedagogues focused on responding to the particular contextual needs of student teachers as they learn to teach.…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Field Experience Programs, Supervisors, Teaching Methods
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