scholarly journals E-Portfolios and Practicum in Teacher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Christine Ho Younghusband
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University ◽  
Principles Of Learning

   The Teacher Education Program at the University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) implemented three initiatives in 2018 to improve the practicum experience for teacher candidates. One of these initiatives was to extend the use of e-Portfolios into final practicum. E-Portfolios are first developed by teacher candidates in EDUC 431, the Education Technology course, but they were asked to continue its use in the following term during final practicum. The extended use of e-Portfolios served as one response in the teacher education program to BC’s Curriculum (2021) and changes in the K-12 system, which in turn modelled several aspects of BC’s Curriculum such as personalization, Core Competencies, formative assessment, and the First Peoples Principles of Learning. Including final practicum as part of the e-Portfolio, teacher candidates were able to deepen their understanding of the Professional Standards for BC Educators (2019), reflect on their teaching experience, and conclude the program with a presentation at the Celebration of Learning. Teacher candidates were able to maintain an e-Portfolio during final practicum, identify additional artefacts to demonstrate their understanding of the professional standards, and create a digital narrative describing who they are as educators. 

scholarly journals Cultivating Agentic Teacher Identities in the Field of a Teacher Education Program

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Anne Block ◽  
Paul Betts
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Strong Connection ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The University

Teacher candidates’ individual and collaborative inquiry occurs within multiple and layered contexts of learning. The layered contexts support a strong connection between the practicum and the university and the emergent teaching identities. Our understanding of teacher identity is as situated and socially constructed, yet fluid and agentic. This paper explores how agentic teaching identities emerge within the layered contexts of our teacher education program as examined in five narratives of teacher candidates’ experience. These narratives involve tension, inquiry, successes and risks, as teacher candidates negotiate what is means to learn how to teach, to teach and to critically reflect on knowledge needed to teach. We conclude that navigating teacher identity is a teacher candidate capacity that could be explicitly cultivated by teacher education programs.

scholarly journals Teacher-Candidates' Perceptions of School Climate: A Mixed Methods Investigation

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Cherubini
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
School Climate ◽  
Beginning Teachers ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Hidden Curriculum ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Teaching Experience

Preservice teacher-candidates are assigned to a number of different schools for their practicum experiences and as a result are immersed in a variety of school cultures and their respective climates. Interestingly, though matters related to school climate and the hidden curriculum are discussed in the literature, there is a lack of comprehensive research around preservice teachers’ expectations and observations during their formal teacher education program. Given that beginning teachers’ experiences are intensely impacted by their observations and experiences throughout their teacher training, the purpose of the study was to investigate teacher candidates’ beliefs about the climate of schools at the beginning and near completion of their teacher education program. More specifically, this study employed a mixed methods research design to determine how beliefs about the hidden curriculum of schools compared to teacher candidates’ impressions as they gained practice-teaching experience in various schools. The results may induce preservice education faculty to evaluate the underlying pedagogical causes that profoundly illuminate and engagingly implicate the tensions within teacher candidates’ expectations of school climate and their observed realities.

Teaching and Learning Simultaneously

2017 ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Yukari Takimoto Amos ◽  
Nicole M. Kukar
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Reflective Practitioners ◽  
Collaboration Process ◽  
The University ◽  
Collaboration Project ◽  
Traditional Class

The purpose of this chapter is to describe a collaboration process between a teacher education program and a university ESL program that attempts to increase teacher candidates' exposure to ELLs with “third space” as a theoretical framework. In third spaces, boundaries of teacher and student get blurred, and new ways of thinking about teaching and learning emerge. In the collaboration project that this chapter describes, the two teacher candidates regularly volunteered in the university ESL classes and taught mini-lessons to the ELLs while taking a class about ELL teaching. The qualitative analysis of the participants indicates that in the collaboration project, a university-based class and a field-based class were in sync by providing the participants with opportunities to immediately implement what they learned in a traditional class with the ELLs. In this boundary blurriness, the ELLs became from abstract to concrete in the participants' mind, and the participants became reflective practitioners.

scholarly journals Delving into Inquiry Learning in Teacher Education at the University of British Columbia

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 1179-1185
Author(s):  
Claire Rushton ◽  
Andrea S Webb
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Inquiry Learning ◽  
University Of British Columbia ◽  
The University

This paper discusses a series of inquiry-based seminars that are central to the teacher education program at the University of British Columbia. This teacher education program reflects the changing curriculum in the province. The new inquiry-based provincial curriculum is being implemented between 2015 and 2018 and the teacher education program is changing to reflect the practical needs of the teacher candidates. As teacher candidates become more familiar with the practices of inquiry, their professional practice changes as well.

scholarly journals Evaluating Teacher-Candidates’ Teaching in the Extended Practicum

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin G. Ralph ◽  
Brian W. Noonan
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Teaching Performance ◽  
Program Administrators ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
The University ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

This study reports the aggregate results of the evaluations of the teaching performance of 17 cohorts of teacher-candidates (n = 374), who completed their extended practicum during their pre-service teacher-education program at one Western Canadian university. Over a 15-year period, one of the researchers served as the College Supervisor for these cohorts in their respective four-month internship in schools in a variety of locations throughout the province. The teacher-candidates’ final evaluations on nine categories of teaching performance revealed varying levels of strength among the skill areas. Implications of the findings are drawn: (a) for the undergraduate program administrators, faculty members, and practicum-program personnel at the university connected to this study, and (b) for other teacher-education institutions interested in making use of this information to help inform their deliberations in assessing/improving their own pre-service and practicum initiatives.

scholarly journals Sustainable Teacher Training via Distance Education: The Effect of Study Centers, Gender and Economic Demographics on Academic Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7965
Author(s):  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Wilson Osafo Apeanti ◽  
Paul Georgescu ◽  
Prince Harvim ◽  
Dianchen Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Traditional Mode ◽  
The University ◽  
Better Than

We examine the effectiveness and sustainability of the distance teacher education program established by the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana, by investigating the differences in the academic performance of students who are trained in the teacher education program via traditional and distance education modes, respectively, from 2011 to 2015. Close attention is paid to the factors that affect the academic performance of students in the distance mode. Our findings confirm that traditional mode students perform better than their distance mode counterparts in terms of cumulative GPAs. Gender and economic demographics of distance study centers are found to affect the academic performance of distance education students significantly. The policy implications of these findings are discussed and directions of further action are outlined.

Overseas: Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-60
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Native Studies ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Exchange Material ◽  
The University ◽  
Indian Students ◽  
Education Courses

We recently received exchange material from The Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) at Saskatoon, Canada. A brief description of the program might be of interest to those readers involved in adult and teacher education courses for Aboriginal students.SUNTEP is a four-year off campus Teacher Education Program offered through the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research in co-operation with the Department of Education and the University of Saskatchewan and Regina. It is an enriched program leading to a B.Ed, degree, designed specifically for Metis and Non-Status Indian students who might not otherwise attend university. The program has a number of unique aspects including -

scholarly journals A Study of the Views of Prospective Teachers about Practicum of Teacher Education Programs

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Uzma Parveen Et al.,
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Teacher Education Institution ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Practicum Experience ◽  
Oriented Activity ◽  
The University

Teacher education is a professionally oriented activity in the sense that the skills, attitudes, and knowledge provided herein, have a direct bearing on the teaching assignment of teachers. The criticism of recent years on existing teacher education program is adequate testimony that we have so far not fully succeeded to bring available research findings to bear upon the education of the teachers. It was a survey type of study which required the collection of data from the prospective teachers, who had gone through the practicum experience. The data comprised of the views of prospective teachers about practicum. A convenient sample of 400 prospective teachers, from the institution of three universities, having practicum experience was selected. It includes 200 prospective teachers of B.Ed. and 200 of M.A Education program with equal numbers from both genders. M.A Education prospective teachers were from AIOU and Punjab University, whereas B.Ed. were from AIOU and the University of Education. The prospective teachers viewed that less cooperation and mutual understanding exist among faculty members and cooperative teachers. The teacher education institution and its faculty should develop a good understanding and proper liaison with the staff of the cooperative schools for proper planning conduct and evaluation activities of practicum programs.

Transformational Learning for Community Health

2014 ◽  
pp. 164-181
Author(s):  
Carlos E. Quiñones-Padovani ◽  
Clarena Larrotta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Physical Education ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Transformational Learning ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Physical Education Teacher ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Physical Education Teacher Education

The qualitative research study explored in this chapter took place in a physical education teacher education program at a large public university in Puerto Rico. Study findings are relevant for similar programs in the United States. The research questions guiding the chapter are: (1) What can physical education teacher candidates do to help promote community health awareness? (2) What does transformational learning look like for physical education teacher candidates in a physical education teacher education program? (3) From the point of view of the university instructor, what are the challenges training physical education teacher candidates to promote health awareness? Data collection sources include: The researcher's journal, informal conversations with physical education teacher education university colleagues from different institutions, alumni questionnaire responses, electronic communications with 11 physical education teacher education program graduates, and documents (e.g., the National Association for Sports and Physical Education Standards, and the Physical Education Teacher Education Standards). The authors draw on transformational learning theory as a framework to inform the study, and narrative analysis plays a central role reporting study findings. The chapter includes the following sections: a theoretical framework section discussing how transformational learning theory informs the study; a relevant literature section that provides the definition, benefits, and connection with concepts such as physical activity, community health, and effective teaching in physical education; a qualitative methodology section that describes the study setting and participants; data collection sources and data analysis procedures; a study findings section that is organized by research questions; an implications for practice section; and conclusion.

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