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Within and beyond a Grow-Your-Own-Teacher Program: Documenting the Contextualized Preparation and Professional Development Experiences of Critically Conscious Latina Teachers
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Morales, Amanda R. – Teaching Education, 2018
This study provides an account of seven Latina teachers' select educational, professional, and personal experiences over the past 10 years as they completed a grow-your-own-teacher program, became licensed teachers, and established themselves in Latinx minority--majority public schools within their rural, mid-western community. More specifically,…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Minority Group Teachers, Females, Rural Schools
"Practicing What We Preach"--Teacher Educators' Dilemmas in Promoting Self-Regulated Learning: A Cross Case Comparison.
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Tillema, Harm H.; Kremer-Hayon, Lya – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2002
Investigated how Israeli and Dutch teacher educators conceptualized self-regulated learning (SRL) and what they meant by actively utilizing SRL approaches, both in their own professional development and as a way to involve students in SRL. Teacher interviews indicated that although the two groups differed somewhat in their views of their own…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development, Foreign Countries
Learning from Our Diverse Students: Helping Teachers Rethink Problematic Teaching and Learning Situations.
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Greenleaf, Cynthia; And Others – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1994
Many disadvantaged students show incipient excellence underlying perceived errors in literacy performance. The paper examines research on helping teachers think more generatively about increasingly diverse student populations. Preservice teachers can be taught to handle multicultural classrooms by interpreting problematic student performance in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Cultural Differences
Coming to Terms with "Diversity" and "Multiculturalism" in Teacher Education: Learning about Our Students, Changing Our Practice.
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Cockrell, Karen S.; Placier, Peggy L.; Cockrell, Dan H.; Middleton, Julie N. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1999
Teacher educators addressed negative student responses to a multicultural foundations course by designing an action research study to investigate students' identities, experiences, and beliefs. Analysis of written assignments and focus group discussions uncovered three categories of beliefs about the purposes of schools in relation to cultural…
Descriptors: Action Research, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Diversity (Student)
The Music Is Why I Teach: Intuitive Strategies of Successful Teachers in Culturally Diverse Learning Environments.
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Powell, Richard R. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 1996
This study explored the classroom learning environments and instructional strategies of four successful teachers in culturally diverse classrooms using the constant comparative method of data analysis across cases. Three themes about culturally sensitive teaching emerged during data analysis: reshaping traditional school curriculum, rethinking the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism
Cultural Diversity Is Basically a Foreign Term to Me: The Challenges of Diversity for Preservice Teacher Education.
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Causey, Virginia E.; Thomas, Christine D.; Armento, Beverly J. – Teaching and Teacher Education, 2000
Investigated the effectiveness of a program to facilitate preservice teachers' intercultural sensitivity, examining the beliefs of two teachers at the end of the program and noting residual effects 3 years later. Data from students' journals, narratives, essays, observations, and interviews indicated that the program had its intended effect to…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Consciousness Raising, Cultural Awareness
Addressing Diversity in US Teacher Preparation Programs: A Survey of Elementary and Secondary Programs' Priorities and Challenges from across the United States of America
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Jennings, Todd – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
Data gathered from 142 public university elementary and secondary teacher preparation programs across the United States (representing the preparation of approximately 23,000-30,000 new teachers annually), indicated that race/ethnicity was the most emphasized diversity topic followed by special needs, language diversity, economic (social class),…
Descriptors: Race, Student Attitudes, Social Class, Sexual Orientation