The effects of a teacher education program for creativity education on elementary English teachers’ perceptions of creativity education

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 5-28
Author(s):  
Hye-Ryun Kim ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucretia Octavia Tripp ◽  
Angela Love ◽  
Chippewa M. Thomas ◽  
Jared Russell

With the increasing diversity in U.S. classrooms, the need for teachers who are culturally sensitive is critical (Marx & Moss, 2011). While elementary and early child-hood pre-service teachers have multiple opportunities throughout the teacher education program to work with diverse learners in schools and communities, they do not have much international experience. The Elementary Education and Early Childhood Education program at a southeastern university have undergraduate and graduate certification programs in which performance assessment is emphasized. The purpose of this chapter is to show how exposing teacher candidates, especially undergraduate pre-service teachers to self-reflection through observation and teaching in an international study abroad program, can enhance the knowledge base of preservice teachers' perceptions about another culture and thus show new ways of thinking, questioning and possibly changing their attitudes towards those with backgrounds that are different from their own.


2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-262
Author(s):  
Shelley Tracey

The context for this paper is a teacher education program for adult literacy practitioners at Queen’s University Belfast in Northern Ireland.This paper describes and reflects on the use of arts-based approaches to enhance these practitioners’ conceptualizations of literacy, presenting their arts-based responses and their evaluations of the methods. The discussion raises questions about the inclusion of visual literacy in adult literacy teacher education programs.


2020 ◽  
Vol V (II) ◽  
pp. 417-426
Author(s):  
Kamal Ud Din ◽  
Fasiha Altaf ◽  
Almas Shoaib

In Pakistan, the teacher education program has undergone a number of changes in terms of a new curriculum, quality measures and certification policies. The present study has attempted to assess the effectiveness of the program from student-teachers' perspectives. A closed-ended questionnaire was used to collect data from 200 student-teachers from four public sector universities. An initial descriptive analysis showed that teaching quality has slightly improved. An institution with a better learning environment was better at meeting student-teachers expectation. Only 12% of the participants reported that 100% of their expectations were met, while 40% of the participants reported that 80% of their expectations were met by the program. There was no association between Strengths of the Program and Sex' as, ?2 (2, n = 165) = .588, p >.05, phi = .06. The association between Program Level (ADE, B. Ed) and Perceived Strengths of the Program was statistically significant as ?2 (3, n = 165) = 24.725, p >.0005, phi = .380. Institution Type and Perceived Strengths of the Program were also statistically significantly associated as ?2 (9, n= 165) = 80.060, p<.05.


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