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

Childhood Education;  March 22, 2002 ;   Moberly, Deborah A. Conway, Kathleen D. Girardeau, Cape Ransdell, Mary;   787 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 ;   Edwards, Sarah; Kuhlman, Wilma;   787 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 ;   Pellett, Tracy L. Henschel Pellett, Heidi A.;   787 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 ;   Mowling, Claire M. Brock, Sheri J. Hastie, Peter A.;   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 ;   Davis, Kathryn L; Brown, Bernice G; Liedel-Rice, Ann; Soeder, Pamela;   787 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 ;   Rosaen, Cheryl L. Hobson, Sharon Khan, Ghazala;   787 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 ;   Reese-Durham, Nancy;   787 words ......meaningful experiences for teacher candidates. However, one problem...elementary students and teacher candidates enrolled in a content...curriculum designed to prepare teacher candidates typically includes classroom...most curriculum plans for teacher candidates. The ...

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

Childhood Education;  March 22, 2004 ;   Gordinier, Cynthia L. Moberly, Deborah A. Conway, Kathleen;   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...

EDITORS' COMMENTS

The Teacher Educator;  January 1, 2005 ;   Cassady, Jerrell; Mullen, Laurie;   480 words ...This issue of The Teacher Educator communicates...undertaken in undergraduate teacher education programs...education courses and early field experiences. Improving...reflective practitioners" in teacher education is intended...depth and coherence of teacher candidates' ...

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

Education;  December 22, 2003 ;   Farnsworth, Briant J. Benson, Linda F. Peterson, Nancy L. Shaha, Steve H. Hudson, Leslie A.;   787 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...

Teacher candidates and master math teachers personal concepts about...

Education;  March 22, 2008 ;   Patton, Barba A. Fry, Jane Klages, Carol;   787 words ......for this study is defined as how teacher candidates view the study of elementary mathematics...teach elementary mathematics. How teacher candidates view the nature of mathematics and...particular subject matter (Telese, 1997). Teacher Candidates Beliefs Personal Concepts About ...

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

Teacher Education Quarterly;  January 1, 2005 ;   Lacina, Jan Guidry; Sowa, Patience;   787 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...

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

Bilingual Research Journal;  October 1, 2002 ;   Johannessen, B Gloria Guzman; Bustamante-Lopez, Isabel;   787 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 ;   Sunal, Cynthia Szymanski; McCormick, Theresa; Sunal, Dennis W; Shwery, Craig;   787 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 ;   Haley, Marjorie Hall Fox, Rebecca K.;   787 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 ...