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Winship, Morgan; Standish, Heather; Trawick-Smith, Jeffrey; Perry, Caroline – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2021
Teachers' positive relationships with families contribute to the social, emotional, and intellectual development of children in early childhood education programs. Effectively involving, communicating, and partnering with families requires a unique set of professional abilities. Teachers must hold a deep understanding of the cultural and…
Descriptors: Reflection, Authentic Learning, Teaching Experience, Family School Relationship
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Kim, Jinhee; Kim, Koeun – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2020
Space is not separable from the learning and teaching that take place in and through teacher education programs. In this paper, we attempt to illustrate how the use of a spatial lens in preservice teachers field placement can provide them with opportunities to raise questions and understand more about the relationships between self, the discursive…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Reflection, Metacognition
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Baumgartner, Jennifer J.; Buchanan, Teresa K. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2010
National educational organizations highlight the importance of preparing preservice teachers to work with diverse families. As teacher educators in an interdisciplinary early childhood teacher education program, we developed a project using eco-maps to help students learn about children and their families. We analyzed students' written reflections…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Maps
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Bayat, Mojdeh – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2010
This study utilizes students' journaling and video-recording of field experience teaching sessions as vehicles for inquiry into the development of the process of productive reflection within the piloting phase of an experimental course, designed by the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (NCRECE). The NCRECE course is…
Descriptors: Action Research, Early Childhood Education, Student Journals, Reflection
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Couse, Leslie J.; Chorzempa, Barbara – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2005
With the development of advanced degrees in early childhood education and the accompanying professional standards (National Association for Education of Young Children [NAEYC], 2002; National Board for Professional Teacher Standards [NBPTS], 2001, advanced early childhood programs are called to reach beyond the university classroom walls into the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Service Learning, Field Experience Programs, Young Children
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Jones, Ithel; Lake, Vickie E.; Dagli, Ummuhan – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2005
The study examined the integration of science and mathematics methods courses and preservice teachers' understanding of constructivism. The participants were 50 preservice teachers who were enrolled in early childhood education mathematics and science methods courses, and an early childhood practicum. The two methods courses were integrated and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Preservice Teachers, Methods Courses, Early Childhood Education