This longitudinal study tracks primary participants over 3 years from their last year of university
preservice teaching training through their second year of in - service teaching via surveys, interviews, and teaching observations.
Not exact matches
Benefits: Greater accountability; Drawing teachers focus on what skills need to be
taught; Identification of students who have not reached expected benchmarks in reading and numeracy, supported by evidence and data; Improved
preservice teacher
training and teacher professional learning.
By way of comparison in the international arena, Singapore
trains every
preservice teacher to
teach online, including
training in blended - learning models for the classroom.
I suspect that
Teaching as Leadership will now be required reading at «summer institute,» the five - week
preservice training required of all new TFAers.
As Troxclair (2013) writes,» [h] istorically,
preservice teachers have had little exposure in their teacher
training programs regarding the nature and needs of gifted learners, theories of gifted education, curriculum for those with advanced abilities, and
teaching strategies to be used with gifted learners» (p. 58).
Put another way, the technology classes and
training provided students at the undergraduate
preservice level may not be applicable by the time they graduate and take their first
teaching position.
Citing Crechiolo's work of 1997, Kerski goes on to explain that adoption barriers for K - 12 schools include «limited access to hardware and software, insufficient
preservice and inservice
training, and the paucity of appropriate
teaching resources» (1999).
The
preservice teacher's pedagogical
training has
taught her that OLEs have gained increased popularity as a means to
teach students using context - specific authentic problems because of the advantages this approach offers over classrooms that emphasize rote memorization of preexisting expertly conceived concepts (Edelson et al., 1999).
One teacher,
trained in Tribes during the
preservice year, has great success in implementing the process during the first years of
teaching.
Current approaches to
teaching geospatial technologies (GST) in K - 12 classrooms have been ineffective as a result of inadequate GST
training with both in - service and
preservice teachers and an absence of development in pedagogical models for
teaching GST (Bednarz & Audet, 2003; Doering, 2004; Doering & Veletsianos, 2007a; Sanders, Kajs, & Crawford, 2001).
The article discusses how place - based inquiry and essays can be used to help
train preservice secondary teachers to
teach content area literacy.
Overwhelmingly, evidence supports the claim that the quality of
preservice training increases new teacher retention and improves
teaching effectiveness (Berry, Daughtrey, & Wieder, 2010).
Teachers whose preparation programs focused on the work of the classroom, provided a supervised clinical experience, and gave them the opportunity to engage in the practices of
teaching were able to drive greater learning gains for their students once in the classroom than those who did not receive the same kind of clinically oriented
preservice training.56 Prospective teachers who had a longer clinical experience reported greater confidence in their
teaching abilities and were more likely to say that the length of time they spent as a student teacher was adequate, compared with their peers who had shorter clinical experiences.57