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A research into the image of the ideal teacher versus the self-image of student teachers was conducted by two groups of preservice teachers. One group was composed of teacher education students, and the other was composed of beginning teachers who were still completing their academic degrees. Interview data was collected from 89 teachers. Finding revealed two major categories of the ideal teacher: personal qualities, and knowledge of the subject taught and didactic knowledge. However, beginning teachers attributed greater importance to knowledge in terms of the ideal teacher, while students who had not begun to teach attributed less importance to knowledge as far as the ideal teacher.
Published: 2007
Updated: Mar. 18, 2008
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The article examines how student-teachers perceive their integration into the school life during their initial teacher education school placements. Data gathered from 23 student-teachers revealed that they considered their social interactions with school staff meaningful professionally and enhancing emotionally.
Published: 2007
Updated: Mar. 14, 2008
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Making the connections between course activities and actual classroom teaching practices assisted a preservice teacher in forming a commitment to teaching students with disabilities. The study illustrates the experiences that contributed to the preservice teacher's understanding and changing attitudes towards inclusion. It included a 15-week literacy methods course, and data from observations, interviews and course reflections.
Published: 2007
Updated: Mar. 04, 2008
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The article describes a case study designed to explore the use of student teachers as agents for both preservice teachers and inservice teachers' professional development associated with educational technology. The study examined to what extent preservice teachers can implement a technology-rich curriculum, and to what extend they can facilitate their mentors' acquisition of those skills. Results indicate preservice teachers can stimulate the integration of technology-rich innovations in their mentor teachers.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 26, 2008
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A study was conducted to examine changes in personal teaching self-efficacy, outcome expectancy and science conceptual understanding and relationship of the three among preservice teachers. Seventy preservice teachers enrolled in a science teaching methods course and the study established that novice learners with minimal prior knowledge required extensive guidance. However the relationship between science learning confidence and science teaching confidence could not be established.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 26, 2008
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A study was conducted to compare pretest and posttest responses of preservice science teachers who were involved in an elementary science pedagogy class. The study aimed at examining whether coursework for preservice science teachers corresponded to reforms for advancing science education. It is believed that a survey, which was linked to the course outcomes (constructs) and multiple indicators, measured the preservice teachers’ perceptions of their development towards becoming elementary science teachers.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 26, 2008
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The purpose of this study was to determine if a nontraditional teacher preparation program, the Transition To Teaching program, was a viable way to ease the teacher shortages in a high poverty, urban U.S. school district, and at the same time, to evaluate the impact of teacher training on students' academic achievement. The results of this study afford evidence that the students taught by 1st-year, alternatively prepared teachers achieved as well as or better than their peers taught by traditionally certified 1st-year teachers, according to student achievement in mathematics, specifically Algebra I.
Published: 2007
Updated: Feb. 07, 2008
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What is the impact of an international field experience on preservice teachers? A study of 15 American teacher education students who completed a 4-week international practicum included various evaluation methods. With few exceptions, the overall benefits included both professional and personal changes, such as increased confidence, and better appreciation of different cultures.
Published: 2008
Updated: Feb. 05, 2008
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A study was conducted to explore whether schools settings (i.e. rural, suburban and urban) play a role in determining student teachers' efficacy beliefs. Research participants included 102 student teachers, and all three setting groups showed significant increases in teachers' sense of efficacy following their student teaching.
Published: 2008
Updated: Feb. 05, 2008
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The purpose of this study is to tell two stories of two technologies (multimedia and video) used to help preservice literacy teachers develop systematic observation skills. These stories include descriptions of each technology and the results of sequential mixed methods studies used to examine the preservice teachers, development of systematic observation. Results indicate that the multimedia group showed similar or better performance than the video group for all measures. Discussion is offered to explore possible explanations for the findings and suggest further investigations.
Published: 2007
Updated: Jan. 31, 2008