The purpose of this action research was to evaluate the implementation of the National Archives DocsTeach program as a means of increasing the historical thinking of preservice teachers enrolled in a social studies methods course. In this study, six students enrolled in a social…
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Qualitative research continues to demonstrate a majority white, female, middle-class teaching force is struggling to effectively teach an increasingly culturally and linguistically diverse U.S. student population (Hollins & Guzman, 2005; Nieto, 2000). As a result, teacher ed…
This study explores the experience of becoming English teachers in two multicultural countries through narratives from preservice teachers in the United States and Malaysia. In general, the United States and Malaysia share similarities in the demographic landscapes whereby both …
Special education teacher preparation programs are now expected to prepare special education teachers to work in a variety of settings, teach a variety of contents, and a variety of students with disabilities, including those with severe disabilities. Scholars have argued that f…
The purpose of this dissertation was to investigate how preservice teachers plan and what their planning revealed about their understanding of teaching. The study was based primarily on direct observations, lesson plans, and interviews with three preservice teachers during their…
The purpose of this study was to examine the preservice physical education (PPE) teachers' attitudes toward teaching movement skills to students with disabilities in regular educational settings in Saudi Arabia. Participants were 403 male who were students in the College of Phys…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes toward science and science teaching of Saudi pre-service elementary science teachers at male and female teachers' colleges by using an Arabic translation of the Science Teaching Attitudes Scale (STAS-II) constructed by M…
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of Saudi Arabian secondary preservice science teachers (SPSTs) toward a variety of science teaching practices. An ultimate, essential goal of this study was to use generated information and findings to improve the curren…
The issue of developing effective teacher preparation and professional programs by providing effective teaching and learning strategies to prepare teachers to teach in more challenging ways and change their old ways of teaching to more powerful ones has gained great attention ar…
This qualitative study describes the experience of eleven Indonesian preservice teachers as they read and learned about children's literature in an introduction to children's literature course during one academic semester. Informed by reader response theories, teacher learning, …
This dissertation investigated preservice secondary mathematics teachers' preparation to teach probability and statistics, their confidence in their ability to teach probability and statistics to secondary students, and their understanding of selected probability and statistics …
The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes toward reading held by fourth-year students attending Saudi teacher colleges. The attitudes toward reading were measured regarding students' purposes of reading: utilitarian, individual development, and pleasure. The stu…
This study examined the attitudes of Kuwaiti mathematics pre-service teachers before and after participation in a teacher preparation mathematics course that used dynamic geometry software called Geometer's Sketchpad, with instruction delivered using the guided inquiry teaching …
Teacher education is a global enterprise, and has far-reaching consequences throughout society. Student teachers find themselves working on two fronts; the university setting and the schools where they practice teach. Through talking to pre-service teachers in the United States,…
No Child Left Behind requires public schools to implement parental involvement programs. This study determined if novice teachers know how to involve parents in their children's education and determined if novice teachers believe that parental involvement is important. Teachers …
Research on pre-service teachers' perspectives toward inclusion in the Egyptian context is almost non-existent. Given this dearth of research, the purpose of this study was to examine pre-service teachers' attitudes toward including students with special needs in general educati…
The purpose of this study was to understand the effect of engaging preservice teachers in an online learning community (OLC) on their sense of community, technological proficiency, and attitude toward online learning. The web-based learning community was developed in two undergr…
Studies indicate that many teachers have negative beliefs about science, which translates into low teacher efficacy, resulting in avoidance of science teaching or in ineffective science teaching behaviors. Highly efficacious teachers have been found to be more likely to use inqu…
Teachers' beliefs have been a major focus of educational research due to their influence on teachers' practice. Understanding teachers' beliefs and the processes in which beliefs are formed provides information for teacher training programs. Therefore, teacher education programs…