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Mullen, Carol A. – Action in Teacher Education, 2018
This case study focuses on creativity and collaboration in preparing Chinese preservice teachers. The research question was "Can aspiring Chinese teachers discover creativity where encouraged and under conducive conditions?" The purpose was to find out whether, with explicit instructions to be creative, candidates could demonstrate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Creativity, Models
Burgard, Karen L. B.; Boucher, Michael L., Jr.; Johnston, Kathryn L. – Action in Teacher Education, 2018
This qualitative case study investigated the changes in mental models of a group of White, rural and suburban, teacher candidates in a rural midwestern college and their increased capacity to understand race and culture after their short-term practicum experience in Guatemala City. The study used individual written reflections, whole-group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Capacity Building, Schemata (Cognition), Overseas Employment
Mathews, Sarah A. – Action in Teacher Education, 2017
Colleges and universities incorporate international, student-teaching programs as a way to help prepare globally minded prospective teachers. This article adds to this conversation, offering insight from a multicase study analysis of three educators conducted 5 years after their experience student teaching in Kenya, East Africa. The researcher…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
Dunn, Alyssa Hadley; Dotson, Erica K.; Cross, Stephanie Behm; Kesner, John; Lundahl, Bo – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
This comparative case study analyzes two study abroad experiences for preservice teachers--a 4-month student teaching placement in Sweden and a 3-week intensive intercultural course with school observations in France. Although they differed in duration and structure, both programs focused on developing preservice teachers' understandings of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Study Abroad, Case Studies
McCartney, Holly; Harris, Teresa – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
International experiences offer new settings for revisiting, revising, and reconstructing currently held images of the child. Specifically, international practicum experiences can provide preservice teachers with opportunities to reflect on their views about children by positioning themselves as "the other." The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Children, Practicums
Black, Glenda L. – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
Assessment is a complex function requiring an understanding of student learning, assessment principles, practices, and purposes of data to implement effective classroom assessment. The purpose of this study was to add to the growing base of knowledge about teachers' engagement with assessment data and their motivation for classroom assessment.…
Descriptors: Motivation, Class Activities, Semi Structured Interviews, Evaluation Utilization
Ogan-Bekiroglu, Feral – Action in Teacher Education, 2014
Although proponents support portfolios' value to enhance the reflective thinking of novice teachers and imply that such thinking improves teachers' practice, few studies have confirmed these assertions by directly measuring in-depth reflection or describing conditions that develop it. In this study, reflective thinking in preservice teachers'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Portfolios (Background Materials), Teacher Attitudes, Reflection