International Portal of Teacher Education
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The article examines conceptions of mentoring and beginning teachers. Interviews with six mentors and six beginner teachers were held, and 379 statements were grouped into six conception. The categories were apprenticeship, personal support, andcollaborative learning, and these revealed the variation in how mentors and beginning teachers conceptualized school-based mentoring.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 06, 2008
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The purpose of this study was to investigate summative student teacher evaluation instruments to determine the most common dispositions evaluated by teacher preparatory programs. Thirteen disposition categories emerged from the data: (a) Acceptance of Criticism, (b) Critical Thinking, (c) Enthusiasm, (d) Ethics, (e) Leadership, (f) Personality, (g) Professional Growth, (h) Reflectivity, (i) Relationships, (j) Respect for Learner, (k) Self-confidence, (l) Service to Student, School and Community, and (m) Work Habits.
Published: 2008
Updated: Oct. 02, 2008
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In this article the model Educational Value-Added Assessment System (EVAAS) is examined. The methodological issues with the model are presented. The author considers it the model most sophisticated value-added model.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 18, 2008
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The article explores attitudes towards to standardized student feedback on the quality of the teaching in a teacher education college in Israel. The article describes the way teacher educators perceive student relating to the feedback the extent to which feedback is used for professional growth. Finding indicate that differences were found between the analyses of the quantitative and qualitative data. Teacher educators were much more critical when expressing their attitudes freely.
Published: 2008
Updated: Sep. 11, 2008
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In this study, researchers examined the effects of an online mathematics methods class on preservice teachers' knowledge of instructional planning, classroom instructional planning performance; and classroom pupil outcomes in mathematics. Results are discussed in terms of participant acquisition of online course materials, classroom application of course materials, and pupil outcomes in mathematics.
Published: 2007
Updated: Sep. 07, 2008
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Special education teacher preparation programs typically require training in delivery of standardized achievement assessments. Appropriate administration of standardized assessments in eligibility and instruaional planning process are critical. To insure production of valid assessments, pre-service teachers at Utah State University must deliver a valid checkout assessment directly to course instructors. On-campus, this process is accomplished with ease.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jul. 28, 2008
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A key factor in successful teacher education is designing activities that promote attainment of instructional objectives. However, in online teacher education there is little evidence regarding the types of activities that can be used to achieve specific objectives and variation from class to class while providing effective instruction. This study examined 6 online activities focused on the types of objectives instructors often set in teacher education coursework. The activities were evaluated in an online graduate methods course.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jul. 21, 2008
148
This descriptive study investigated the benefits and costs of using electronic portfolios (EPs) in preservice teacher education. Grounded within change theory, the study examined the perspectives of faculty in six programs in which EPs have been used on a large scale for two or more years.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jul. 14, 2008
149
Three sections of the same distance education class completed a series of Web-based concept map assessments using one of two methods. Open-ended maps applied in section 1 led students to conduct more relational thinking overall, but variance in map items was very high introducing more subjectivity in scoring.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jul. 10, 2008
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The article discusses the disposition of preservice teachers in early childhood education. The University of Memphis created a checklist called the Early Childhood Education Behaviors & Dispositions Checklist which defines proper and improper behaviors and norms for preservice teacher dispositions.
Published: 2008
Updated: Jun. 23, 2008