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Full Issue: Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2022, Judith Collazo, Christine Leblanc, Timothy Lintner Mar 2026

Full Issue: Volume 15, Number 2, Summer 2022, Judith Collazo, Christine Leblanc, Timothy Lintner

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

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Engaging The In-Person Student Online: Modifying Courses For Covid-19, Jennifer Zakrzewski Mar 2026

Engaging The In-Person Student Online: Modifying Courses For Covid-19, Jennifer Zakrzewski

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

In the Spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic began causing a frenzy as faculty members turned their in-person courses into online courses overnight. Since the Spring of 2020, many faculty members have been asked to teach their in-person courses online due to the continued COVID-19 pandemic. However, many faculty members may feel ill equipped to teach their courses online. This article provides simple and quick solutions for faculty members to implement to support in-person students in an online course.

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Roadblocks To Retention In Teacher Education Programs, Tamara Pack, Tod Kenney, Carol Hoyle Mar 2026

Roadblocks To Retention In Teacher Education Programs, Tamara Pack, Tod Kenney, Carol Hoyle

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

This study reviewed student performance outcomes of two cohorts of preservice teacher candidates to identify the factors that contribute to attrition in a university teacher preparation program. A quantitative analysis of Grade Point Averages (GPAs) suggests that low grades in general education courses may negatively impact a candidate’s self-efficacy towards completing the high stakes testing requirement of the Praxis Core exam and therefore serve as early indicators. Proactive measures to address systemic roadblocks are shared.

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The Role Of Syntax In North Carolina's Science Of Reading Policies, Melissa Wren Mar 2026

The Role Of Syntax In North Carolina's Science Of Reading Policies, Melissa Wren

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

The purpose of this paper is to explain how a rich understanding of syntax has the potential to contribute to teacher agency within Science of Reading policies. This paper begins with a discussion of the relationship between the Science of Reading and North Carolina’s Excellent Schools Act of 2021. Next, existing literature related to syntax and literacy theories is discussed. This section is followed by an examination of how syntax is represented in competencies for preservice teachers and elementary students in North Carolina. After that, evidence-based practices to support syntax are explained. Finally, a discussion of how stakeholders may juxtapose …

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Parents Of Students With Disabilities' Perceptions Of At-Home District Support During The Covid-19 Crisis, Carol Hoyle, Matthew Collier, Nita Brewer Mar 2026

Parents Of Students With Disabilities' Perceptions Of At-Home District Support During The Covid-19 Crisis, Carol Hoyle, Matthew Collier, Nita Brewer

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

During the COVID-19 pandemic, special education instruction has been greatly impacted. Parents have faced numerous challenges as educational services became home-based. This study was designed to gather the experiences of parents or caregivers of students with individualized education programs (IEPs) provided home educational supports by their child’s school district during this pandemic. Qualitative and quantitative analysis were completed and the survey results are presented in order to assist educators as they modify and make plans for providing home/online instruction for students with IEPs.

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Now I Know Someone With A Disability: Using Fiction To Help General Education Preservice Teachers Understand The Inclusion Classroom, Suzanne Horn, Cheryl Morgan, Annette Heim Mar 2026

Now I Know Someone With A Disability: Using Fiction To Help General Education Preservice Teachers Understand The Inclusion Classroom, Suzanne Horn, Cheryl Morgan, Annette Heim

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

This case study reports on a general education, preservice teacher book club. The club read young adult literature in which the central character had an intellectual disability. Although all fears were not alleviated, general education preservice teachers reported a higher comfort level about teaching in inclusive classrooms after seeing life through the eyes of their fictional character. Getting to know their character gave them a level of exposure to a disabled person with a disability they may have been too uncomfortable to explore with a “real” person. With this new understanding, preservice teachers had a context in which to share …

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The Unlikely Outcome Of A Struggling Kindergartner: A Cognitive Rags-To-Riches Tale, Amanda M. Butler Mar 2026

The Unlikely Outcome Of A Struggling Kindergartner: A Cognitive Rags-To-Riches Tale, Amanda M. Butler

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

Despite teachers’ implementation of research-based strategies, many students fail to make adequate progress. In some cases, this stems from a neurophysiological response that is beyond the teacher’s and student’s control. Drawing on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, unintended findings from a previous study illuminate a larger, deeply convoluted issue that will promote unique conversations in education circles. These findings bear significant discoveries that could alter the trajectory for failing students and elevate the teaching profession.

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Family Home Connection In A Covid-19 World, Anna Brady, Jamia Richmond Mar 2026

Family Home Connection In A Covid-19 World, Anna Brady, Jamia Richmond

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

The purpose of this article is to address best practices for building home-school partnerships following the onset of the COVID—19 pandemic. The authors also discuss what teachers and schools can do to build trust and maintain strong communication with families during the COVID—19 pandemic and during virtual schooling. The authors draw upon their experiences as both educators and siblings of people with disabilities to share research-based strategies that can help teachers effectively partner with the families of their students.

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Full Issue: Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 2021, Judy Beck, Susan Fernandez Mar 2026

Full Issue: Volume 15, Number 1, Fall 2021, Judy Beck, Susan Fernandez

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Teaching About The Industrial Revolution Using Local Landmarks: Engaging Students With Community History, Wren Bareiss, Rebecca Mueller, Ann Merryman Mar 2026

Teaching About The Industrial Revolution Using Local Landmarks: Engaging Students With Community History, Wren Bareiss, Rebecca Mueller, Ann Merryman

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

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Full Issue: Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2021, Judy Beck, Susan Fernandez Mar 2026

Full Issue: Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2021, Judy Beck, Susan Fernandez

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Using Icons To Create Online Course Cohesion, Lillian Reeves Mar 2026

Using Icons To Create Online Course Cohesion, Lillian Reeves

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

When attempting to make digital content more engaging, it can be challenging to know where to start. Drawing on the implementation practices of Dixson et al. (2016) and Livingston and Shaw (2019), this article shares the author's first experiences and reflections on using icons to create narrative course structure and offers suggested resources for bringing visually engaging icons to online learning environments.

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Preparing Culturally Responsive Teachers: Preservice Teacher Attitudes Toward Linguistic Diversity In The Classroom, Winston Vaughan Mar 2026

Preparing Culturally Responsive Teachers: Preservice Teacher Attitudes Toward Linguistic Diversity In The Classroom, Winston Vaughan

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

This article examines preservice teachers' attitudes toward linguistically and culturally diverse students. Students completed a 17-item 5-point Likert type scale questionnaire ranging from 1= strongly agree to 5= strongly disagree to measure attitudes toward linguistically diverse students. A quantitative research methodology was used to collect and analyze the data focusing on descriptive statistics for this purpose. Results indicate that preservice teachers had positive attitudes toward accepting linguistically diverse students into society and schools.

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Comparing Face-To-Face And Distance Supervision: Examining The View Of Teacher Candidates, Nicole M. Uphold Mar 2026

Comparing Face-To-Face And Distance Supervision: Examining The View Of Teacher Candidates, Nicole M. Uphold

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

This study examined teacher candidates' perceptions of face-to-face and distance supervision. Teacher candidates enrolled in a multicategorical special education preparation program participated in both face-to-face and distance supervision of their teaching at their field experience. Teacher candidates preferred the face-to-face supervision. Challenges to distance supervision and suggestions for overcoming these will be discussed in this paper.

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Difficult Discussions: Critical Conversations As A Culturally Sustaining Teaching Practice In The College Classroom, Crystal Glover, Sherell Fuller Mar 2026

Difficult Discussions: Critical Conversations As A Culturally Sustaining Teaching Practice In The College Classroom, Crystal Glover, Sherell Fuller

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

As women of color in academia committed to matters of equity and inclusion, we remain undaunted by the idea of having difficult, but necessary discussions on race and ethnicity in the college classroom. After years of facilitating these types of conversations among mostly white, middle class, female teacher candidates, we began to notice an even greater reluctance than normal on the part of our students to authentically engage in difficult discussions in the classroom. As the sociopolitical climate within the United States shifted and became more divisive along racial and political lines, those divisions found their way into our classrooms. …

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Seeing Is Believing: Repeated Reading And Video Self-Modeling To Improve Reading, Jeremy Lopuch Mar 2026

Seeing Is Believing: Repeated Reading And Video Self-Modeling To Improve Reading, Jeremy Lopuch

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

The purpose of this article is to describe the procedures of repeated reading and video self-modeling to improve reading outcomes for struggling students. An illustrated case study will be used to outline the individual steps of the intervention package. Information is also provided so teachers can evaluate the effectiveness of the procedures with individual students.

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Full Issue: Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 2019, Julie Jones Mar 2026

Full Issue: Volume 13, Number 1, Fall 2019, Julie Jones

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

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The Plan Is To Fan This Spark Into A Flame: How To Use Workshops To Expand Access To Antibias Education In Preservice Education, Lillian Reeves Mar 2026

The Plan Is To Fan This Spark Into A Flame: How To Use Workshops To Expand Access To Antibias Education In Preservice Education, Lillian Reeves

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

This paper documents the author's development of structured curriculum enrichment workshops for pre-service teachers at the University of South Carolina Aiken. Responding to the perceived gap in effective training on antibias education among teacher candidates at USC Aiken, the workshops were designed to engage teacher candidates in hands-on, fast-paced, and interactive experiences and to invite students to evaluate materials, practice strategies, and grow as antibias educators. The workshops were also designed to support students as they develop the critical self-reflection skills necessary for successful implementation of antibias practices. By detailing the process used to develop and implement an antibias education …

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Partners In The Middle: Building And Sustaining A Pds Partnership With A Middle School, Deborah Mcmurtrie Mar 2026

Partners In The Middle: Building And Sustaining A Pds Partnership With A Middle School, Deborah Mcmurtrie

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

Over a ten-year period, an informal middle school-university project has evolved to become a Professional Development School (PDS) partnership. The middle school now provides classroom space for undergraduate classes and cooperating teachers for practicum placements. Pre-service teachers provide hands-on help in the classroom, serve as mentors for middle school students, and gain new insights into adolescent development. University partners have an ongoing presence in the school and provide a lead facilitator who understands school policies and procedures, handles scheduling and logistics, and maintains positive working relationships with school administrators. Lessons learned include the importance of building and sustaining relationships, regular …

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Tutor Buddies: Revisioning Reading Recovery As A Vehicle For Learning To Teach Reading, Lenessa Coe-Clark, Bruce Murray Mar 2026

Tutor Buddies: Revisioning Reading Recovery As A Vehicle For Learning To Teach Reading, Lenessa Coe-Clark, Bruce Murray

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

Assessment of Reading is a mandated course for teacher candidates in an Elementary Education program in South Carolina. In response to ACT 284 (Read to Succeed), several courses were created or revamped to improve the effectiveness of teacher candidates in teaching reading. The Assessment of Reading course challenges senior teacher candidates, a semester from internship, to learn and apply knowledge about reading assessment while working with a struggling reader for eight weeks. This experience provides teacher candidates with a focused opportunity to experience responding to student instructional needs. This article will detail the implementation of systsematic phonics instruction in a …

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Mentor Teacher Feedback: Escaping The “Good Job” Trap In Clinical Practicums, Karlin Burks Mar 2026

Mentor Teacher Feedback: Escaping The “Good Job” Trap In Clinical Practicums, Karlin Burks

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

Becoming a mentor teacher is a rite of passage for most veteran teachers and is one many volunteer for as a way to give back to the profession. Although mentor teachers are eager and committed to the task of mentoring teacher candidates, far too many are ill-equipped for the evaluative nature of the role. Teaching is a profession that demands pedagogical competence, and that training and evaluation begins in the field experience, which is one of the most important elements of teacher preparation programs (Clift & Brady, 2005). Accordingly, feedback is ranked as one of the most important and desirable …

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Full Issue: Volume 12, Number 2, Spring 2019, Julie Jones Mar 2026

Full Issue: Volume 12, Number 2, Spring 2019, Julie Jones

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

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Digital Badges And The K-12 Classroom: A Guide For Teachers, Erin Besser Mar 2026

Digital Badges And The K-12 Classroom: A Guide For Teachers, Erin Besser

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

Getting started with digital badging can be a fun way for educators to integrate current technology trends, however, digital badging has also been shown to increase student engagement (Abramovich, Schunn, & Higashi, 2013). Badging provides learners an opportunity to display their knowledge for the world to see, appealing to professionals in their fields (Randall, Harrison, & West, 2013). While badges themselves are not necessarily assessment, they depict that assessment has taken place and the criteria that were needed to get there (Ostashewski & Reid, 2015). Introducing a new method of assessment and technology can be overwhelming at best. This article …

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Full Issue: Volume 12, Number 1, Fall 2018, Julie Jones Mar 2026

Full Issue: Volume 12, Number 1, Fall 2018, Julie Jones

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

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Promise Of A Democratic Society: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers For Under-Served Ells, Nan Li, Angela Peters Mar 2026

Promise Of A Democratic Society: Preparing Pre-Service Teachers For Under-Served Ells, Nan Li, Angela Peters

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

The number of English Language Learners (ELLs) has increased consistently in American schools in recent years- this group has the highest percentage of increase among all ethnic groups in schools. This rise of the ELL school enrollment has brought increased demands for teacher preparation. Yet, most teacher education programs still follow a traditional norm in teacher preparation- targeting instruction for mainstream classrooms. As a result, once placed in classrooms, preservice teachers lack strategies for working with ELLs. Additionally, the ELLs face academic challenges due to limited English proficiency for meeting the learning demand of schools. Data shows that the ELLs …

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School Newspapers: A Key To Democracy, Kristie Camp Mar 2026

School Newspapers: A Key To Democracy, Kristie Camp

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

This paper discusses the importance of rebuilding journalism programs in high schools as a way to help preserve democratic ideals in our society at large. Since effective high school journalism programs teach students who serve as newspaper staff members to be responsible gatherers of information as well as discerning researchers, these student newspaper staff members are also more likely to apply a discriminating point of view or a perceptive mindset when they become adults. In addition, a strong high school newspaper program will engage the student body in open dialogue and give voice to the many different perspectives in any …

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Are Teachers Really Different? The Moral Intuitions Of Elementary And Secondary Preservice Teachers, Austin M. Hitt, Richard H. Costner Mar 2026

Are Teachers Really Different? The Moral Intuitions Of Elementary And Secondary Preservice Teachers, Austin M. Hitt, Richard H. Costner

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

In a previous study the authors used the Six Factor Personality Questionnaire (SFPQ) to uncover putative personality differences between elementary and secondary preservice teachers. The key result of the study was that no significant differences between the two groups of preservice teachers were identified. For the present study the authors examined another psychological construct, moral intuition. Preservice elementary and secondary teachers completed the Moral Foundations Questionnaire (MFQ), which is designed to uncover the moral intuitions or heuristics that people use to resolve moral dilemmas. Analysis of the responses revealed statistically significant differences in the moral intuitions of preservice elementary and …

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Using Blended Learning To Support Differentiated Instruction, Suzanne Horn, Rhonda Miller Mar 2026

Using Blended Learning To Support Differentiated Instruction, Suzanne Horn, Rhonda Miller

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

This article reviews the concept of blended learning. The authors explore how blended learning can support teachers efforts to differentiate instruction and support English Language Learners and students with learning differences in the classroom.

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Full Issue: Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 2018, Julie Jones Mar 2026

Full Issue: Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 2018, Julie Jones

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Read To Succeed: South Carolina's Unique Approach To Literacy Gateway Retention Policies, Jennifer Barrett-Tatum Mar 2026

Read To Succeed: South Carolina's Unique Approach To Literacy Gateway Retention Policies, Jennifer Barrett-Tatum

Teacher Education Journal of South Carolina

South Carolina's Read to Succeed Act, a state policy involving mandated intervention and retention for students third grade and below, began at the start of the 2017-2018 school year. Similar to past research on retention, a recent study of over 1,150 South Carolina state elementary school teachers, literacy support specialists, and administrators provides that the majority of respondents were unfamiliar with research on the effectiveness of retention as a means of intervention and were also unaware of many of the details of RTS, including Good Cause Exemptions for student retention. This article seeks to inform educators about what decades of …

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