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Chapter 8
Handbook of Research on TPACK in the Digital Age
Credit-bearing learning opportunity for pre-service teachers within an elementary classroom. Practica usually occur one or two days per week and are connected with one or more university courses and provide opportunities to observe and/or practice what is being learning in the university classroom with students in an elementary classroom.
Published in Chapter:
Creating Laboratories of Practice for Developing Preservice Elementary Teachers' TPACK: A Programmatic Approach
Amanda Thomas (University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA) and Guy Trainin (University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA)
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 18
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7001-1.ch008
Abstract
This case study outlines the components and outcomes of a program-wide approach to transforming elementary pre-service teachers' technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK). The approach emphasized the creation of laboratories of practice in which pre-service teachers learned about and enacted technology for teaching and learning. Pre-service teachers developed TPACK through carefully designed and scaffolded learning experiences in technology and content methods coursework, internship experiences, and student teaching. The case offers descriptions and outcomes within a mathematics methods course and across eleven cohorts of student teachers. TPACK survey results at the beginning and end of one course of the program, and measures of TPACK-efficacy and frequency of technology integration at the end of the program indicate that the programmatic approach led to TPACK growth among pre-service teachers.
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Chapter 5
University and Primary Schools Co-Teaching Together: Challenges Towards a CLIL Training Program
Degree subject whose aim is to get the pre-service teachers involved into a real school context, being supervised by a faculty member and mentored by a schoolteacher.
Published in Chapter: University and Primary Schools Co-Teaching Together: Challenges Towards a CLIL Training Program; From: Handbook of Research on Training Teachers for Bilingual Education in Primary Schools
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Chapter 18
Using Online Simulation to Engage Users in an Authentic Learning Environment
The placement of a pre-service teacher in a school setting designed to give students supervised practical application of previously studied theory. Traditionally practicums occur as a ‘block practicum’ organized at the end of a semester, with a number of ‘rolling practicum days’ throughout the semester. The classroom teacher usually acts as the supervising teacher, mentoring and evaluating the pre-service teacher’s progress.
Published in Chapter: Using Online Simulation to Engage Users in an Authentic Learning Environment; From: Handbook of Research on Effective Electronic Gaming in Education
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Chapter 10
Systematic Selection of Innovative Pedagogies in Teacher Education Courses and Practica
A college course in which teaching activity occurs in an educational setting, usually a public school.
Published in Chapter: Systematic Selection of Innovative Pedagogies in Teacher Education Courses and Practica; From: Handbook of Research on Innovative Pedagogies and Best Practices in Teacher Education
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Chapter 9
Reimagining the Internship and Practicum Program: Using Innovative Social Entrepreneurship Applications to Shape Personal Brands
A practicum is a period of time for an undergraduate or graduate student where they receive supervised.
Published in Chapter: Reimagining the Internship and Practicum Program: Using Innovative Social Entrepreneurship Applications to Shape Personal Brands; From: Cultivating Entrepreneurial Changemakers Through Digital Media Education
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Chapter 4
Addressing Diversity in Language Teacher Education: Perspectives on Practicum
a component of the initial teacher education program designed for gaining field experience in actual teaching settings (i.e., classrooms and schools) under the supervision of teacher educators.
Published in Chapter: Addressing Diversity in Language Teacher Education: Perspectives on Practicum; From: Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Language Learning Environments
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Chapter 10
Helping With the Special Educator Shortage in Rural Schools: A Teacher Preparation Program's Journey
Classroom experiences university students have under the direction of a licensed teacher (typically less than 75 hours over the course of a semester).
Published in Chapter: Helping With the Special Educator Shortage in Rural Schools: A Teacher Preparation Program's Journey; From: Expanding the Vision of Rurality in the US Educational System
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Chapter 9
Taking the TESOL Practicum Abroad: Opportunities for Critical Awareness and Community-Building among Preservice Teachers
A teacher education course that offers supervised classroom teaching experience for preservice teachers to acquire pedagogical knowledge and skills.
Published in Chapter: Taking the TESOL Practicum Abroad: Opportunities for Critical Awareness and Community-Building among Preservice Teachers; From: Handbook of Research on Efficacy and Implementation of Study Abroad Programs for P-12 Teachers
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Chapter 1
Early Field Experiences Through Telepresence Robots: Diverse Placements by Expanding Locations
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Chapter 8
Reciprocal Peer Mentoring: Practical Implications in Practicum
Placement of pre-service teachers in practice schools.
Published in Chapter: Reciprocal Peer Mentoring: Practical Implications in Practicum; From: Emerging Strategies for Public Education Reform
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Chapter 9
Rewriting Field-Based Literacy Practicum Experiences: Lessons Learned From a Virtual Literacy Practicum
Component of high-quality teacher education programs that typically involves placing a preservice teacher in the “field” alongside a mentor teacher in a K-12 classroom. Also called fieldwork or clinical experience.
Published in Chapter: Rewriting Field-Based Literacy Practicum Experiences: Lessons Learned From a Virtual Literacy Practicum; From: Handbook of Research on Reconceptualizing Preservice Teacher Preparation in Literacy Education
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Chapter 15
Addressing the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Dilemma in Rural Settings: Preparing Teachers for Rural Poverty
A supervised, experience-based university course where teacher candidates apply theory in real-world settings. Candidates receive meaningful and relevant feedback to help them reflect on professional and personal growth.
Published in Chapter: Addressing the Teacher Recruitment and Retention Dilemma in Rural Settings: Preparing Teachers for Rural Poverty; From: Handbook of Research on Leadership and Advocacy for Children and Families in Rural Poverty
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Chapter 3
Error Analysis of Teacher Technical Writing: The Corpus of EFL Lesson Plans
The practice of teacher education in which the prospective teachers are to attend, observe and teach in an assigned public or a private school to gain the required experience for their profession before graduation.
Published in Chapter: Error Analysis of Teacher Technical Writing: The Corpus of EFL Lesson Plans; From: Cases on Error Analysis in Foreign Language Technical Writing
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Chapter 8
Foreign Language Education Through Online Communities of Practice
A teacher training process where the candidate teachers are expected to observe the in-class teaching procedures and implement the theoretical knowledge to their own lessons by engaging in actual teaching practice in the assigned schools and classrooms.
Published in Chapter: Foreign Language Education Through Online Communities of Practice; From: Trends and Developments for the Future of Language Education in Higher Education
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Chapter 12
Diversity and Teacher Education: Cultural and Linguistic Competency for Teachers
In their teacher preparation, preservice teachers usually have a required numbers of hours to be spent in the classroom. The total number of hours varies from program to program, which is considered a field and clinical piece of their training.
Published in Chapter: Diversity and Teacher Education: Cultural and Linguistic Competency for Teachers; From: Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Approaches to Language and Literacy Development
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Blogging as Online Reflection During Student Teaching
Course experiences that provide for supervised, practical application of professional knowledge.
Published in Chapter: Blogging as Online Reflection During Student Teaching; From: Effective Practices in Online Teacher Preparation for Literacy Educators
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Chapter 12
Becoming Responsive Teachers during a Practicum-Based Study Abroad Experience: Learners Leading to New Perspectives
Working with students to apply understandings of teaching and learning, generally in a school or community based context.
Published in Chapter: Becoming Responsive Teachers during a Practicum-Based Study Abroad Experience: Learners Leading to New Perspectives; From: Handbook of Research on Efficacy and Implementation of Study Abroad Programs for P-12 Teachers
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