Sue O'Neill:... The first issue I identified in the preservice
beginning teacher preparation courses (from my research in 2014 and 2015) was that there was what I considered to be a lack of depth of evidence - based practices that have been proven to be effective from conducting well designed and rigorous research.
Not exact matches
Although technology
preparation activities varied widely, we saw lots of
teacher education programs requiring standalone technology
courses that focused on building up
beginning teachers» technology skills.
For example,
beginning in the first semester of the
teacher preparation program, preservice
teachers in a technology
course are taught to identify and use effective technologies that may be considered as assistive technology for students with disabilities and instructional technology for other students.
Primarily second year (sophomore) or third year (junior)
teacher preparation candidates are enrolled in this required
course, offered at the
beginning of the methods sequence.
Relatively few empirical studies have tried to determine which
courses in the
teacher preparation programs allow student
teachers to
begin to dialog about the importance of integrating technology in accordance with the standards.
Using the IDA Knowledge and Practice Standards as the framework for
course content and curricula, teams of reading experts
began reviewing university
teacher preparation programs in 2012, resulting in nine programs recognized for their alignment with the IDA Knowledge and Practice Standards.
«AACTE is excited to join with NCTAF in launching a collective effort to support great teaching which, of
course,
begins with great
teacher preparation.
In surveys, four in five
teachers say that clinical
preparation should start at the
beginning of their training, 28 yet a single semester of student teaching — usually a
course that allows a student
teacher to spend time in a mentor
teacher's classroom at a local school — is still the prevailing norm in
preparation programs.