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Tim Pressley – Teacher Educator, 2024
The current study explored changes in first-year teacher self-efficacy of 77 teachers in Virginia during COVID-19. Data included four survey times (August, October, February, and June) to measure changes in first-year teacher self-efficacy. The results found that teacher self-efficacy was highest entering the school year but significantly…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness
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Heckathorn, Jennifer; Sharpe, Charlotte – Teacher Educator, 2023
Many teacher educators (TEs) see their role as influencing radical change in K-12 classroom teaching. And yet, many TEs might characterize their own growth as steady and measured experimentation. In this paper, we explore sudden and drastic changes to praxis that TEs experienced when reorganizing their courses and programs around Mediated Field…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Role, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change
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Carley Rizzuto, Kerry – Teacher Educator, 2017
The purpose of this parallel mixed-methodology study was to examine how the perceptions of early childhood teachers toward their early childhood English Language Learners (ELL) shape their pedagogical practices. The study was conducted in 10 early childhood classrooms, ranging from grades pre-K to third, in one suburban school with a culturally…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, English Language Learners
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Han, Heejeong Sophia; Damjanovic, Victoria – Teacher Educator, 2014
This study is an examination of early childhood preservice teachers' kindergarten internship experiences to identify the supportive and challenging conditions for their learning and explore in what ways those conditions are productive or unproductive for them, based on ecological perspective as a theoretical framework. Qualitative data were…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Kindergarten, Internship Programs, Early Childhood Education