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Promoting This We Believe And The Amle Standards With Teacher Candidates, Amanda Wall
Promoting This We Believe And The Amle Standards With Teacher Candidates, Amanda Wall
Current Issues in Middle Level Education
This article describes approaches to integrating This We Believe and the Association for Middle Level Education Standards into a middle grades course.
Supporting Middle Grades Teacher Candidates In Becoming Culturally Competent, Nathan Carnes
Supporting Middle Grades Teacher Candidates In Becoming Culturally Competent, Nathan Carnes
Current Issues in Middle Level Education
The author describes practices to support middle grades teacher candidates' becoming culturally competent.
Keynote. Motivation: Theory Into Practice, David Vawter
Keynote. Motivation: Theory Into Practice, David Vawter
Current Issues in Middle Level Education
This paper is based on Dr. Vawter's keynote address at the Southeast Professors of Middle Level Education Symposium.
Collaboration In The Middle: Middle Grades To Higher Education Promoting, Advocating, Igniting Support For Middle Schools, Bridget Coleman, Nancy B. Ruppert
Collaboration In The Middle: Middle Grades To Higher Education Promoting, Advocating, Igniting Support For Middle Schools, Bridget Coleman, Nancy B. Ruppert
Current Issues in Middle Level Education
The authors provide an overview of the Southeast Professors of Middle Level Education Symposium, which was held in Greenville, SC, May 17-18, 2018. This is the introduction to the proceedings from the Symposium.
Encouraging Teacher Candidates To Cultivate Habits Of Reflection, Amanda Wall
Encouraging Teacher Candidates To Cultivate Habits Of Reflection, Amanda Wall
Becoming: Journal of the Georgia Association for Middle Level Education
The conceptual framework for the College of Education at Georgia Southern University is: Reflective Practitioners for a Diverse World. Three of the five Middle Level Teacher Preparation Standards from the Association of Middle Level Education (AMLE, 2012) also specify reflection as a habit. Standard 5 on Middle Level Professional Roles, for example, states: “Middle level teacher candidates understand, reflect on, and are successful in their unique roles as middle level professionals.” In order for teacher candidates to become reflective, they need multiple opportunities to engage in reflection.
Developing The Whole Teacher: A Phenomenological Case Study Of Student Teachers' Emotional Experiences In One Teacher Education Program, Kathleen M. Crawford
Developing The Whole Teacher: A Phenomenological Case Study Of Student Teachers' Emotional Experiences In One Teacher Education Program, Kathleen M. Crawford
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Student teaching serves as the culminating field experience in the majority of teacher education programs, and studies have revealed the need to investigate the connection between pre-service teachers and the emotions they experience, express, and manage. Therefore, the overarching purpose of this phenomenological case study was to examine how one Early Childhood (PreK-5th) Education Program addressed and prepared teachers for the emotional dimensions of teaching, as well as to examine the emotional experiences of the student teachers. The results of this study revealed the need for teacher education programs to amend the ways in which they prepare pre-service …
Service-Learning With Young Students: Validating The Introduction Of Service-Learning In Pre-Service Teacher Education, Nancy M. Arrington
Service-Learning With Young Students: Validating The Introduction Of Service-Learning In Pre-Service Teacher Education, Nancy M. Arrington
Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications
Founded on experience as a practitioner and teacher action-researcher in an elementary school setting, the author shares this study as a validation for introducing the methodology of service-learning in teacher preparation programs. Multiple methods were used in this action research to analyze the effects of participating in a service-learning experience on the self-effi cacy for self-regulated learning of a class of third-grade music students as they participated in an intergenerational project—sharing music and writing with residents in a local nursing home.
The quantitative data included the results from the Children’s Self-Effi cacy Scale (Bandura, 2006) and progress rating scales administered …
Teaching The Teacher: How To Integrate Information Literayc Into The Curriculum, Robert Fernekes, Sonya S. Shepherd
Teaching The Teacher: How To Integrate Information Literayc Into The Curriculum, Robert Fernekes, Sonya S. Shepherd
Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy
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Reconceptualizing Mathematics Education, Melinda Ann Smith
Reconceptualizing Mathematics Education, Melinda Ann Smith
Legacy ETDs
This dissertation is to explore theoretically mathematics education in the United States and the need for reconcepualizing mathematics education. Mathematics education needs reconceptualizing because students know very little mathematics by the time they graduate from high school. Mathematics has become a subject to be feared and dreaded for centuries. High school teachers blame middle school teachers, middle school teachers blame elementary teachers, and elementary teachers blame parents for their students' lack of preparedness in mathematics. Elementary teachers express frustration in teaching mathematics because of their own lack of content knowledge and lack of preparation for the mathematics component of their …