Helping teacher candidates become reflective about their practice....

Childhood Education;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......accountability have become just as important. Teacher candidates must be able to document their knowledge...Through this documentation process, teacher candidates reflect upon the products of their...critical developmental process for teacher candidates. Educators value the ...

Culturally Responsive Teaching: Do We Walk Our Talk?

Multicultural Education;  July 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......base is clearly instilled in our teacher candidates before they enter the workforce of...repeated call for more inclusion, teacher candidates are still leaving their preparation...Jones & Fuller, 2003). Some teacher candidates have a heart for diversity instruction...

Helping the struggling PETE candidate: a model of intervention and...

JOPERD--The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......academic learning and performance from teacher candidates has provoked major discussion at...amp; Pollack, 2001). Specifically, teacher candidates are expected to attain the necessary...attention or study has been devoted to teacher candidates whose performance is marginal or...

The journey to cultural transformation: exposure as a means of heightening...

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport;  February 1, 2007 ;     462 words ......Therefore, it is imperative that teacher candidates embark on the journey towards cultural...study was to investigate if white teacher candidates' mere exposure to an all African...transformation and were as follows: (a) Were teacher candidates able to recognize their privileges...

Experiencing Diversity through Children's Multicultural Literature

Kappa Delta Pi Record;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Children's literature can enlighten teacher candidates who are preparing to teach in schools...educators are being challenged to prepare teacher candidates for work with diverse students. The...negative way (Zeichner and Hoeft 1996). Teacher candidates' lack of understanding of ...

Making connections: collaborative approaches to preparing today's and...

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education;  June 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......support the professional development of teacher candidates, collaborating teachers (CTs) and...develop technology-rich sites for teacher candidates' learning. A study of teacher candidates' (n=24) and CTs' (n=15) experiences...

Reading partnerships for teacher candidates.

Academic Exchange Quarterly;  June 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......provide meaningful experiences for teacher candidates. However, one problem in developing...experience for elementary students and teacher candidates enrolled in a content reading course...university curriculum designed to prepare teacher candidates typically includes classroom ...

Scaffolding enables reflective thinking to become a disposition.(Teacher...

Childhood Education;  March 22, 2004 ;     504 words ......development of reflective thinking with teacher candidates. In our programs we begin to draw the teacher candidates' attention to thoughts of an on...technique of scaffolding to help teacher candidates think reflectively about their...

Selecting the best teacher candidates: can a group interview help?

Education;  December 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......been very popular among potential teacher candidates. Each year 165 to 200 students apply...great concern that the very best teacher candidates are selected. Many programs like...institutions, it was learned that teacher candidates performed well in the professional...

Preparing for Multicultural Schools: Teacher Candidates Dialogue Online...

Teacher Education Quarterly;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......how do universities best prepare teacher candidates to teach children of racially and...over a one-year period, allowed teacher candidates and teachers to openly discuss issues...middle-class professors teach White teacher candidates about how to best teach children...

Analysis of an Early Field Experience in Agricultural Education in...

NACTA Journal;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......perceived by the participating teacher candidates and if it was structured in a way which allowed teacher candidates to identify individual strengths...the study were to determine teacher candidates' perceptions as to the value...

Bilingual academic Spanish proficiency tests: Assessment of bilingual...

Bilingual Research Journal;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......instruments used to determine whether teacher candidates' language abilities are adequate...language abilities required of bilingual teacher candidates in the design of valid and reliable...tests, not as measures to exclude teacher candidates from bilingual credential or ...

Elementary Teacher Candidates' Construction of Criteria for Selecting...

Journal of Social Studies Research;  April 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Elementary education teacher candidates identified four criteria they used...portfolios are developed by many teacher candidates and require a considerable investment...The electronic portfolio involves teacher candidates in the use of technology and may...

Examining language proficiency of teacher candidates--a critical issue in...

Academic Exchange Quarterly;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......language? Language proficiency of teacher candidates is a critical issue in teacher preparedness...language proficiency skills of its teacher candidates. This assessment process began five...determining the language proficiency of teacher candidates who are preparing for ...

Critical reflection for professional development: a comparative study of...

Journal of Teacher Education;  May 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......education of nontraditional adult teacher candidates requires learning environments that...professional development of nontraditional teacher candidates because these can be used to advance...traditional and nontraditional adult teacher candidates. Using weekly student ...