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Learning To Lesson Plan: A Mentor’S Impact On Pre-Service Teachers, Kelly M. Gomez Johnson, Connie L. Schaffer Dr, Lela E. Nix, H. Emily Hayden Oct 2020

Learning To Lesson Plan: A Mentor’S Impact On Pre-Service Teachers, Kelly M. Gomez Johnson, Connie L. Schaffer Dr, Lela E. Nix, H. Emily Hayden

The Nebraska Educator: A Student-Led Journal

Lesson planning is considered an essential skill of teachers. As pre-service teachers first encounter the fundamental principles of planning for instruction, the complexity of planning to support the rigorous learning goals of content, curriculum, and individual student needs could be daunting. The mixed methods study explored how mentoring influenced early-program pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy (Bandura, 1997) and progression through stages of concerns (Fuller, 1969) in relation to lesson planning. Participants, secondary early-program pre-service teachers enrolled in a Midwestern teacher preparation program, included a target group who received mentoring and a comparison group who did not. Using constant comparison techniques guided by …


Using Comparative Rating Analysis And Mixed-Method Degree-Of-Change Ratings To Evaluate Graduate-Level Instruction In Leadership Development: Alec 802 Developing Leadership Capacity In Organizations And Communities – A Peer Review Of Teaching Portfolio, Lindsay J. Hastings Jan 2020

Using Comparative Rating Analysis And Mixed-Method Degree-Of-Change Ratings To Evaluate Graduate-Level Instruction In Leadership Development: Alec 802 Developing Leadership Capacity In Organizations And Communities – A Peer Review Of Teaching Portfolio, Lindsay J. Hastings

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

ALEC 802 Developing Leadership Capacity in Organizations and Communities prepares graduate students in leadership studies to become highly skilled at analyzing human systems using leadership as a frame and designing training and development solutions to help those human systems run more effectively. ALEC 802 utilizes a three-tiered case study approach as the primary evaluation mechanism of student proficiency as a professional leadership development specialist. Each case study tier builds upon the previous and offers a gradual reduction in supporting infrastructure. This course portfolio utilized a comparative rating analysis of each case study assignment by learning objective as well as a …