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Learning about Other People's Families
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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 opportunities for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Culturally Relevant Education, Ethnography
The Mentoring Profile Inventory: An Online Professional Development Resource for Cooperating Teachers
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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
Critically-Oriented Pedagogical Tact: Learning about and through Our Compulsions as Teacher Educators
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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
Care, Thoughtfulness, and Tact: A Conceptual Framework for University Supervisors
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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
Promoting Student Teachers' Understanding of Action Research: An Experience from Teacher Education in Ethiopia
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Hussein, Jeylan Wolyie – Teaching Education, 2009
This article reports on hopes and challenges in the first attempt to assist Ethiopian student teachers to develop practical awareness about action research through collaborative learning methods. First, the candidates were organized as a cohort. Then a framework was developed to help them construct reflective questions before and during action…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Intervention, Action Research, Field Experience Programs
Emerging Authenticity: The Crafting of Simulated Parent-Teacher Candidate Conferences
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Dotger, Benjamin H.; Harris, Steven; Hansel, Amber – Teaching Education, 2008
Schools of education struggle to provide future teachers with opportunities to engage in and practice parent-teacher conferences. This manuscript addresses the diffusion of a signature pedagogy from medical education to teacher education, specifically highlighting the design and implementation considerations surrounding simulated parent-teacher…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Parent Teacher Conferences, Teaching Methods, Medical Education
Ethnography of Biography: Learning to Live Like a Teacher.
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Dick, Andreas – Teaching Education, 1993
Paper explores the idea of biography writing as a medium for teacher development and reflection, focusing on the ethnographic biography to provide student teachers with context in preservice education and describing a one-semester course in Switzerland in which student teachers were paired with experienced teachers to complete ethnographic…
Descriptors: Biographies, Context Effect, Ethnography, Foreign Countries
A Multicultural, Multivocal, Multimedia Approach to Teaching Classroom Management and Preservice Teachers.
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Tobin, Joseph; Johnson, Richard – Teaching Education, 1994
At the University of Hawaii, preservice teachers are prepared for diverse classrooms. This paper examines how a group of largely white, middle-class professors can effectively introduce diverse cultural perspectives on classroom management to preservice teachers who are themselves culturally diverse, and highlights use of an interactive videodisc…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Using Simulations to Teach Leadership Roles.
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Pickert, Sarah M. – Teaching Education, 1992
Teacher Educators who want to help students become leaders must let them practice the skills in their courses before going out to teach. One successful method is simulating the context in which leaders make policy decisions in groups. The article describes a course that uses simulations to teach leadership roles. (SM)
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Higher Education, Leadership Training, Multicultural Education
Aboriginal Student-Teachers in the Extended Practicum: Contextual Supervision.
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Ralph, Edwin G. – Teaching Education, 1991
Examines the role of Canadian supervisors working with aboriginal student teachers and their non-Aboriginal cooperating teachers in the extended practicum. The article discusses how to solve interpersonal dilemmas using the contextual supervision model which conceptualizes the supervisory process and generates possible strategies to guide…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Canada Natives, Cooperating Teachers, Cultural Influences
On Cartographies of Anti-Homophobia in Teacher Education (and the Crisis of Witnessing Rural Student Teacher Refusals)
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McConaghy, Cathryn – Teaching Education, 2004
This paper explores the problem of student refusals in a rural Australian teacher education programme as a problem located in particular spatialised social relations. Drawing upon teacher educator reflections and student online discussions, the paper documents a situated approach to anti-homophobia teacher education: one in which student…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teachers, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality