Sentences with phrase «studies teacher education»

In order to understand the relationship between technology innovation and social studies teacher education, this article presents baseline information on social studies faculty use of technology in instruction.

To this end, the College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) Guidelines for Using Technology in Social Studies Teacher Education (Mason et al., 2000) offers five principles to guide the integration of technology into teacher education.

Confronting the digital divide in urban social studies teacher education.

This practitioner article discusses uses of geospatial technologies in a social studies teacher education program as a way of demonstrating how other teacher educators might use geospatial technologies to prompt teacher candidates to new ways of thinking about pedagogy and the world at large.

This paper discusses recent changes in a social studies teacher education program and the role Web 2.0 tools played in helping to rethink pedagogy.

Geospatial tools and social studies teacher education: Case studies.

Collaborative social studies teacher education across remote locations: Students» experiences and perceptions.

Technology applications in social studies teacher education: A survey of social studies methods faculty.

This article outlines recent changes in a social studies teacher education program and the role Web 2.0 tools played in developing meaningful activities centered on the development of sound technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK).

Echoing these findings, Bolick et al. (2003) surveyed social studies methods faculty regarding technology applications in social studies teacher education.

I discuss my own use of geospatial technologies with teacher candidates in a social studies teacher education program as a method to prompt new ways of thinking about the world and the pedagogy they may eventually use in practice.

Since little research has been conducted in the area of handheld technology in preservice social studies teacher education, this project focused on establishing some baseline descriptive information about preservice teachers» views of handhelds and their uses of the device.

In 2014, Contemporary Issues in Technology and Social Studies Teacher Education will publish articles by social studies researchers who describe the evolution of technology integration in the field of the social studies and future research in this area.

The need to leverage theory in the development of guidelines for using technology in social studies teacher education.

Lesson study in elementary social studies teacher education helps prepare our interns for the classroom, giving them the opportunity to learn about collaboratively planning, teaching and revising a social studies lesson so that it interests and challenges their students.

Studying Teacher Education explains the disconnect between what teacher educators believe is the right way to prepare a new teacher and the unhappy K — 12 schools on the receiving end of that effort.

The most revealing insight into what teacher educators believe to be wrong or right about the field is a lengthy 2006 volume published by the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Studying Teacher Education.

Developing and studying teacher education practices and assessment tools to advance the learning and development of novice teachers.

Cruickshank (1987) has designed and studied a teacher education model to promote reflective teaching.

Most recently, she has been studying teacher education programs that focus on preparing teachers for particular contexts, such as urban public schools, and exploring the advantages of such focused preparation for new teachers, and their students — work that is...

Studying teacher education: The report of the AERA panel on research and teacher education.

Not exact matches

Other education related initiatives include resolving the issue of the Alberta teachers» pension plan shortfall and preventing a teachers» strike for five years; creating 1000 new spaces for post-secondary education students in energy, the environment, and economic studies; and creating 6000 new apprenticeship seats.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

Ed School Follies: The Miseducation Of America's Teachers by Rita Kramer Free Press, 228 pages, $ 22.95 In her lively new study based upon fourteen schools of education across the country, Rita Kramer skewers two quite distinct forms of folly.

Teachers of parent - study groups prepare to conduct the small groups which have developed as offshoots of the Parent Education Center's Sunday morning program.

Such foreign study, under a broad program of regular international exchange of teachers and students, should increasingly become a normal feature of formal education for mature young people.

As in the case of theological education, professional work in institutions preparing teachers is likely to include further liberal studies of particular relevance to teaching along with the study and practice of effective teaching.

If Bible study has become a specialty or series of specialties today the reason is not to be sought simply in the development of specialization among teachers of theology but in the loss of a controlling idea in theological education — an idea able to give unity to many partial inquiries.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

Teacher's licenses are difficult earn, expensive in education, and the jobs that they provide to not allow the teachers to pay off the student loans that they incur studying for said licenses.

According to a study conducted in 2008 by physical education teachers using the curriculum, 75 percent rated it as excellent and 23 percent as good.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

Our community includes Green Meadow Waldorf School (400 students, grades K - 12), the Pfeiffer Center (environmental education, biodynamic agriculture, and organic beekeeping), Eurythmy Spring Valley (movement art), Sunbridge Institute (Waldorf teacher education and adult anthroposophical studies), the Otto Specht School (Waldorf education for children with learning differences), the Fiber Craft Studio (healing senses and soul through work with plants and natural fibers), the Fellowship Community (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market.

Formerly at Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Education Program, Barbara is now teacher and Coordinator of Foundation Studies at the Center for Anthroposophy.

He studied Waldorf education at Emerson College in England and worked as a class teacher and a high school teacher in several Waldorf schools.

In the years following, Sunbridge College's offerings grew, eventually encompassing numerous full - and part - time certificate and degree programs and courses in Waldorf Teacher Education, Biography and Social Art, Liberal Studies, Remedial Education (now the Association for a Healing Education), Waldorf Administration and Community Development, Applied Arts (now the Fiber Craft Studio) and other affiliated fields.

Sunbridge is committed to helping make Waldorf teacher education possible, and each year we look for new and additional ways to support our program students in their studies.

Linda began her career in Waldorf teaching after entering the Steiner school as a parent; after several years of parent volunteering and anthroposophical studies, she enrolled in the full - time elementary teacher education program of Sunbridge College, where she earned her teaching certificate.

Realizing that he needed to professionalize his teaching career, he studied education and got his license as a teacher in 2003.

Right now I'm taking three classes at a local university, gathering prerequisites with the hope of eventually studying education and becoming a public school teacher.

Foundation Studies Prelude Series - Spring 2018 - Five Wednesdays starting 3/28 Foundation Series — Starting Fall of 2018 The Foundation Studies and the Prelude series are open to any community member (parents, board members, teachers, alumni, alumni families) who feels a genuine longing to work on gaining a deeper acquaintance with Anthroposophy, the worldview that stands behind Waldorf education.

Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

I am a junior studying to become an elementary education teacher.

By studying the most recent research on early childhood education, the Orfalea Fund was able to invest where it mattered most: in the relationships among directors, teachers, and parents, in the quality of environments, and in the establishment and documentation of best practices.

One study found that, for 64 % of the parents surveyed, the number one concern in their children's education is the teacher.

Nero studied education at the University of New England and has previously worked in the New England region as a primary school teacher.

STATE AWARD — Gianni Notaro, Social Studies and history teacher at Westmoreland Central School, recently received the Empire State Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest education honor in the state.

Supporters of the campaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Universal Pre-Kindergarten teachers who are working toward their certification should have funding for the support and teacher training they need to provide quality education while they are studying for their certification.

Board Member Theresa Harris - Tigg is a former city school teacher and now studies education issues as an assistant professor in the English Department at Buffalo State.