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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Preparation for Teaching"”.
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Preparation for Teaching Reading in the Elementary Grades
… of this study was to investigate the total preparation in reading of a group of elementary teachers, and the current reading requirements of Washington's four-year colleges and universities.</p>
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Perceptions of self-efficacy in graduate assistant composition instructors : a study of novice instructors' feelings about the adequacy of their preparation for teaching
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Can place-based teacher preparation be culturally responsive? An exploration of one promising program
… teacher candidate/alumni who were in a teacher preparation program. The three teacher candidate/alumni shared their experiences and readiness to teach culturally diverse students in K-12 settings. This study also examined the development of a teacher preparation program at a Midwest university. …
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The impact of teaching residency programs on burnout in urban schools
… urban educators in a large southeastern district for a mixed methods study. Research questions one and two investigate demographic and organizational variables to determine if they are predictors of burnout or any of the three subcomponents, respectively. In research question three, teaching …
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Counselor Educators' Perceptions of their Doctoral Level Teaching Preparation
… in the field points to the problem of inadequate teaching preparation, there has been no known research conducted to examine what experiences in doctoral training are perceived as effective for teaching preparation. The major contribution of this research is that it is the first known empirical …
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English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) endorsed elementary teachers’ knowledge and practice of culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy for English learners
… general education classrooms. Teachers receive preparation for teaching ELs through pre-service coursework or in-service professional development. The Multicultural Education, Training, and Advocacy, Inc. (META) Consent Decree, in the state of Florida, requires elementary teachers to obtain an …
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A Narrative Case Study Exploring The Preparation Experiences of Novice Teachers In Urban Elementary Schools
… attrition is extremely alarming, especially for students in urban school contexts. Teachers are leaving the profession because they are unprepared. Research suggests that teacher preparation must focus on preparing teachers through culturally and contextually responsive teaching and building …
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Graduate and Non- graduate Teachers Classroom Performance in English Subject in Tanzania Secondary Schools
There is a great concern about classroom performance of teachers, especially on the differences between graduate and non- graduate teachers in the teaching of English lesson in Tanzania secondary schools. The objective of this study was to compare the classroom performance of graduate and …
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Examination of Web-based teaching strategies at the University of North Texas.
… in Web-based instruction are implementing teaching strategies as identified in Chickering and Gamson's (1987) model, seven principles for good practice in undergraduate education. In addition, the study examined training received by instructors in developing and delivering a Web-based …
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A phenomenological study of pre-service teachers' subject knowledge in secondary design and technology
… teachers may be better prepared and supported for placement in the future. The study made use of phenomenology as a methodological approach in order to capture the lived experience of developing knowledge through the eyes of pre-service teachers. This was framed against an exploration of …
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Reasons for Selecting a Teaching Career and Remaining in the Profession: a Conversation With 10 African American Roanoke City Teachers
… American teachers in Roanoke City selected teaching and remain in the profession and how those reasons were influenced by two motivational variables (academic self-concept of ability and self-efficacy). Factors further affecting this relationship, such as environmental influences (i.e., …
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An investigation of beginning teachers’ journeys through complex landscapes of practice
… their pre-service year and their first year of teaching. Such an investigation is timely in the light of fundamental government reforms of current government policy that promotes a model of Initial Teacher Education (ITE) that is located in schools rather than higher education and that perceives …
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Reform-Based Science Teaching: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Explaining Variation in Secondary Science Teacher Practice
… in secondary science teachers' enactment of reform-based instructional practices. Utilizing teacher socialization theory, this mixed-methods analysis was conducted to determine the relative influence of secondary science teachers' characteristics, backgrounds and experiences across their …
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TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING AND TEACHING: USING THE NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT`S TOOLS AND PRINCIPLES TO PREPARE GRADUATE STUDENT INSTRUCTORS TO FACILITATE FIRST-YEAR COMPOSITION
… K-16 expert teachers consistently praise as transformative. The central question posed in this dissertation focuses on whether the NWP workshop, based on a teachers-teaching-teachers design, could also serve as an effective professional development vehicle for transforming and preparing graduate …
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From school to faculty: stories of transition into teacher education
… has led to a discourse of competence-based preparation for teaching. The locus of all teacher education in Scotland has moved from ‘colleges of education’ and become firmly situated within university faculties or schools of education; achieving the Standard for Initial Teacher Education is …
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What’s the Use of Research? How Teachers Use Research To Plan for Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Classrooms
… in K-12 and beyond (Dabach & Callahan, 2011). Fortunately, there is a large body of research on teaching in diverse classrooms from which teachers can draw (Faltis & Valdés, 2016; Ladson-Billings, 1995; Lucas & Villegas, 2013; Menken & Antuñez, 2001). But teachers are not confident users of …