The preservice teachers noted the advantages of utilizing these devices to help students with exceptionalities.
In reflections upon the fall semester's experience,
preservice teachers noted several benefits to the use of Twitter in the course, including support of resource sharing, communication, and connection with educators both inside and outside of the class.
Echoing this viewpoint,
another preservice teacher noted, «I got more out of this journal assignment this semester than any other.
As one
preservice teacher noted, «Punching buttons is easy to learn.
Not exact matches
Recent research on
preservice teachers in China
notes that
teacher anxiety:
Table 1 lists several commonly used apps, describes how the
preservice teachers used them, and
notes the students» responses to the app.
By approaching this work through partnerships, O'Connor
noted, the strategies and lessons benefit not only
preservice teachers but also the school - based educators and UNCG faculty.
The report
notes that many U.S.
preservice education programs have
teachers continue to take higher math courses, such as calculus, rather than focusing on building pedagogical knowledge of the math they will be teaching.
Field
notes were used as a point of reference to further contextualize
preservice teacher and instructor comments during exit interviews.
Participant comments also indicated that the
preservice teachers particularly liked AGO's base maps (21.95 %), capability of adding / editing layers and map
notes (21.95 %), and interactive features of Web - maps, such as changing map scales (17.07 %).
Several
preservice English
teachers pointed to the capability of weblogs» to make reflection journals easy for the professor, as well,
noting that weblogs were «easy to work with for both of us» and «easy for you to leave comments.»
The
preservice English
teachers noted the influence of the technology medium on their approach to reflective practice, an issue related to the element of personal expression in informal reflection.
Preservice teachers reported completing their readings in other courses through iPads (and brought them to class to use), but others preferred to print the e-text and then handwrite
notes on the hard copies.
While the
teacher continued her lessons, the faculty member and
preservice teachers took
notes to provide a context for later discussions aimed at better understanding curricular and pedagogical strategies.
The elementary education director
noted that while one of the collaborating school divisions made extensive use of technology, the other school divisions in which
preservice teachers completed teaching internships did not.
Carrington et al.
noted the traditional understanding that
preservice teachers will cultivate their professional identity through their curriculum (theory) and field experiences (practice).
It is important to
note that my bias entering this study was that an isolated teaching methods course would have little affect on
preservice teachers perceptions of how to teach and how to integrate technology.