Sentences with phrase «preservice elementary classroom teachers»

Preservice elementary classroom teachers» attitudes toward music in the school curriculum and teaching music.

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New elementary school teachers who were well - prepared in preservice programs to teach reading expressed greater confidence in their knowledge and skills, fostered richer literacy environments in their classrooms, and helped their pupils achieve higher levels of reading comprehension than did other teachers, according to the National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction.

Nicole Garcia and Sarah Scott Frank of TeachingWorks joined with Geoffrey Phelps and Heather Howell of ETS to present strategies to engage preservice teachers in real - life content problems they are likely to encounter in elementary classrooms.

The preservice teachers indicated that their experiences were positive, that digital sources had great potential for elementary classroom use in providing students with multiple perspectives, and that they gave the teacher an opportunity to make history real, challenge assumptions, and foster inquiry, as well as help the students to understand the content more clearly.

He wanted to alert the preservice teachers of forthcoming developments in technology (e.g., greater accessibility of the Internet) that would influence their elementary social studies classrooms.

This commentary represents the perspectives on the revised guidelines of a social studies education university faculty member who is deeply entrenched in the preparation of both preservice and in - service social studies and elementary educators and an instructional design and technology university faculty member who works closely with preservice and in - service teachers of all subject areas on the effective and appropriate integration of technology into the K - 12 classroom.

Among those are preservice teachers» understanding of and ability to address student differences, the nature of the change process in schools implementing differentiation, achievement impacts of differentiation in middle school, elementary, and high school settings, and profiles of teachers whose classroom practice enhances success of students from low - economic and / or cultural minority groups.

Secondary preservice teachers were three times more likely to use presentation software and twice as likely to use LCD projectors in the classroom than were elementary preservice teachers.

This section discusses a number of lessons learned based on our extensive experiences with an ongoing longitudinal research study of preservice teachers learning to use inquiry - based science methods in the elementary classroom.

Prioritizing uncertainty in his work, Dudley - Marling (1997) provided a way of understanding how uncertainty informs the development of preservice and in - service teachers in his story of return to the elementary classroom — after years in teacher education.

In view of adequately preparing preservice teachers to teach science through models, the authors of this paper (a) discuss how a cohort of preservice elementary teachers was introduced to model - based reasoning, and (b) examine the extent to which a classroom modeling experience with a computer tool enabled students to design learning activities in science with computer models.

Halpin (1999), for example, discovered that the integration of technology into elementary teaching methods courses increased the probability that preservice teachers transferred the computer skills into the classroom during their first year teaching, as compared to those who learned computer skills in isolation.