Addressing the Leaking Pipeline: Supporting Disabled Graduate Student Teachers in Psychology

2021 ◽  
pp. 009862832110364
Author(s):  
Emily M. Lund
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Psychology Programs ◽  
Psychology Trainees ◽  
Psychology Faculty

Introduction: People with disabilities are under-represented among psychology faculty and graduate students and are more likely than their non-disabled peers to attrite from psychology graduate programs. They face numerous barriers in graduate training. Statement of the Problem: Teaching experience is a core experience for psychology graduate students, especially those pursuing faculty positions. Disabled graduate students face many barriers that may make it difficult for them to obtain high-quality graduate student teaching experience. This contributes to the continuing under-representation of disabled faculty in psychology programs. Literature Review: I review key empirical and conceptual articles on the experiences of disabled psychology trainees and how to best support them. Teaching Implications: I provide evidence-based suggestions and strategies for supporting graduate students with disabilities as they obtain teaching experience. Conclusion: By actively supporting graduate students with disabilities in their teaching endeavors, psychology faculty can help stem the leaky pipeline and increase the numbers of psychology faculty with disabilities.

scholarly journals Community Service-Learning in a Large Introductory Sociology Course: Reflections on the Instructional Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Jana Grekul ◽  
Wendy Aujla ◽  
Greg Eklics ◽  
Terra Manca ◽  
Ashley Elaine York ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Community Service Learning ◽  
Introductory Sociology

This paper reports on a pilot project that involved the incorporation of Community Service-Learning (CSL) into a large Introductory Sociology class by drawing on the critical reflections of the six graduate student instructors and the primary instructor who taught the course. Graduate student instructors individually facilitated weekly seminars for about 30 undergraduate students, half of which participated in CSL, completing 20 hours of volunteer work with a local non-profit community organization. We discuss the benefits of incorporating CSL into a large Introductory Sociology class and speculate on the value of our particular course format for the professional development of graduate student instructors. A main finding was the critical importance to graduate students of formal and informal training and collaboration prior to and during the delivery of the course. Graduate students found useful exposure to CSL as pedagogical theory and practice, and appreciated the hands-on teaching experience. Challenges with this course structure include the difficulty of seamlessly incorporating CSL student experiences into the class, dealing with the “CSL”/ “non CSL” student division, and the nature of some of the CSL placements. We conclude by discussing possible methods for dealing with these challenges.  

The Systematic Development of Teaching Skills: A Sequence of Planned Pedagogical Experiences

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Taggart
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Field Experiences ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teaching Skills ◽  
Physical Education Teacher Education

Clinical and field experiences in physical education teacher education programs have gradually been added to the student teaching experience to allow student teachers more opportunities to develop teaching skills. The quality of these experiences appears to depend largely on the many contextual variables the student teachers confront rather than the successful performance of the teaching skills being practiced. If beginning physical education teachers are to share in a pedagogy developed from research in classroom management, instructional time, and teaching strategies, and if teaching skills are to be developed specific to these areas, then repeated supervised practice in a variety of settings is needed. The teacher education program described contains a sequentially arranged pattern of nine clinical and field experiences culminating in the final student teaching experience. The essential features of the pedagogical experiences are detailed, emphasizing time engaged in practice teaching, teaching skill focus, supervisory/data collection focus, and pupil teacher ratio.

Through the eyes of young EFL learners: learning with student teachers

ELT Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-327
Author(s):  
Rana Yildirim ◽  
Esra Orsdemir
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Education Literature ◽  
Mentoring Practices ◽  
Teachers Beliefs

Abstract The importance of the practicum for pre-service teachers is well documented in the teacher education literature. A considerable amount of research has investigated various dimensions of the student teaching experience, from student teachers’ beliefs and perceptions to the problems and challenges they face within the process. However, one important dimension, namely what pupils in the classroom think about working with student teachers, has not been given much attention. Hence, the purpose of this study was to investigate how young EFL learners construe their learning experience with student teachers. Data were collected from the drawings of 35 primary school EFL pupils, and we conducted follow-up interviews in which volunteering pupils described what they had drawn. The findings revealed not only pupils’ classroom experiences with student teachers but also various aspects of mentoring practices carried out in the schools.

Student Teachers’ Stress and Social Problem-Solving Skills

2002 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-313
Author(s):  
Cameron Montgomery
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Social Problem Solving ◽  
After School ◽  
Quebec City ◽  
Education Student ◽  
Problem Solving Skills

In this study we examined the relationship between stress and social problem-solving skills in student teachers. Results did not show any significant increase in social problem skills at the end of student teaching in 117 primary education student teachers at Laval University in Quebec City. Similarly, stress did not significantly increase. Our results suggest that the more student teachers increase their social problem-solving skills over the course of their student-teaching experience, the less their stress increases. The training of certain social problem-solving skills (problem orientation, generation of alternative solutions, cognition and emotion strategies) could be a promising method for reducing student teachers’ stress. The more we teach student teachers to manage their emotional stress and relax after school or work (relaxation potential), the more they will succeed in reducing their anxiety and overcoming depression.

The development of a tool for measuring graduate students' topic specific pedagogical content knowledge of thin layer chromatography

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 700-710 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. V. A. Hale ◽  
J. C. Lutter ◽  
G. V. Shultz
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Thin Layer ◽  
Pedagogical Content Knowledge ◽  
Thin Layer Chromatography ◽  
Content Knowledge ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teaching Expertise ◽  
Pedagogical Content ◽  
Layer Chromatography

Graduate students play a critical role in undergraduate education at doctorate granting institutions; but generally have minimal opportunity to develop teaching expertise. Furthermore, little is known about how graduate students develop teaching expertise in this context. We investigated the development of topic-specific pedagogical content knowledge among chemistry graduate student teaching assistants (GTAs). Thin layer chromatography was selected as the topic of investigation because undergraduate students encounter it throughout organic chemistry lab and it is connected to several foundational chemistry topics. An instrument was developed to measure both content knowledge (CK) and pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) of thin layer chromatography for GTAs with a range of teaching experience. Data from the test instrument were transformed using the Rasch model and statistically analysed. Our analysis showed that graduate students at all levels of experience performed well on content knowledge questions, but even experienced GTAs demonstrated low levels of pedagogical content knowledge. Importantly, experienced GTAs demonstrated a greater proficiency than novice GTAs, which suggests that pedagogical content knowledge is developed over time.

scholarly journals Plant Science Graduate Students: Demographics, Research Areas, and Recruitment Issues

HortScience ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1138B-1138
Author(s):  
Rebecca Darnell ◽  
Jimmy Cheek
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Graduate Programs ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Plant Science ◽  
Student Enrollment ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Plant Sciences

Graduate student enrollment in the plant sciences has decreased over the past several years, and there is increasing interest in recruitment/retention strategies. Before successful strategies can be implemented, however, the status of current plant science graduate programs needs to be determined. Survey data on graduate student demographics, research area, support levels, current recruitment strategies, and career opportunities were collected from 23 plant science graduate programs. Overall, 55% of graduate students in plant sciences were male and 45% were female; about 60% were domestic and 40% were international. Cellular/molecular biology and breeding/genetics were the two disciplines that had the greatest number of graduate students and the greatest number of job opportunities. Most programs cited financial support as the biggest obstacle to recruitment. However, stipend number, the guarantee of multiple years of support, the funding of tuition waivers, and health insurance costs also impact student numbers. As more of these costs are shifted to faculty, there appears to be an increasing inability and/or reluctance to invest grant funds (which support 60% of the plant science graduate students) in graduate student education. These data suggest that the decline in plant science graduate student enrollment may be due to shifting of more of the total cost of graduate training to faculty, who may be unable/unwilling to bear the cost. There is also a clear shift in the research focus of plant science graduate students, as postdoctoral and career opportunities are weighted toward molecular biology/genetics, leaving the more applied plant science areas particularly vulnerable to low graduate enrollment.

scholarly journals Quality of Practice Teaching Assignments as Experienced by Students Teachers of Silliman University

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Batchiba R. Lacdo-o
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Teacher Assessment ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Elementary And Secondary Education ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Practice Teaching

This paper compared on-campus and off-campus practice teaching experience of 49 baccalaureate students in Elementary and Secondary Education of Silliman University College of Education. A self-administered questionnaire, the revised Student Teacher Assessment on the Silliman University Student Teaching Program, was the main data gathering instrument used. The Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Rank Test showed that there was no significant difference in the student teachers’ ratings of their on-campus and off-campus experiences.  The same findings were noted on the challenges they have encountered and the recommendations they have posited, namely: classroom management and mentors’ support and relationship.  Further, the findings revealed that classroom management and mentors’ support and relationship were their top two challenges.  The student teachers strongly recommended that support for student teaching be improved especially in terms of mentors’ support and scheduling.  In addition, they strongly recommended that they are pre-observed by their supervisors before their final student teaching demonstration. 

Faculty–student coauthorship as a means to enhance STEM graduate students’ research skills

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Feldon ◽  
Kathan D. Shukla ◽  
Michelle Anne Maher
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Research Skills ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Faculty Mentors ◽  
Academic Year

Purpose This study aims to examine the contribution of faculty–student coauthorship to the development of graduate students’ research skills in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by quantitatively assessing rubric-measured research skill gains over the course of an academic year compared to students who did not report participating in coauthorship with faculty mentors. Design/methodology/approach A quasi-experimental mixed methods approach was used to test the hypothesis that the influence of STEM graduate students’ mentored writing mentorship experiences would be associated with differential improvement in the development of their research skills over the course of an academic year. Findings The results indicate that students who co-authored with faculty mentors were likely to develop significantly higher levels of research skills than students who did not. In addition, less than half of the participants reported having such experiences, suggesting that increased emphasis on this practice amongst faculty could enhance graduate student learning outcomes. Originality/value Qualitative studies of graduate student writing experiences have alluded to outcomes that transcend writing quality per se and speak directly to the research skills acquired by the students as part of their graduate training. However, no study to date has captured the discrete effects of writing experiences on these skills in a quantifiable way.

Video Annotation Software in Teacher Education: Researching University Supervisor’s Perspective of a 21st-Century Technology

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian Ardley ◽  
Jacqueline Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Video Annotation ◽  
Annotation Tool ◽  
University Supervisors ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Technology Tool ◽  
The University

Video recordings for student teaching field experiences have been utilized with student teachers (also known as teacher candidates) to (a) capture the demonstration of their lesson plans, (b) critique their abilities within the performance, and (c) share and rate experiences for internal and external evaluations by the state and other organizations. Many times, the recording, saving, grading, and sharing process was not efficient. Thus, the feedback cycle from the university supervisor to the teacher candidate was negatively impacted. However, one communication technology tool that has the potential to facilitate the feedback process is video annotation software. This communication technology uses the storage within a remote server, known also as a cloud, to store videos that include typed commentary that is in sync with the portion of the video recorded. A group of university supervisors piloted a video annotation tool during student teaching to rate its effectiveness. Through a survey, the participants addressed how they perceived the implementation of the video annotation tool within the student teaching experience. Results suggest a video annotated technology-based supervision method is feasible and effective if paired with effective training and technical support.

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