Lessons from the ITS Program

2012 ◽  
pp. 13-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Norton ◽  
Dawn Hathaway
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teacher ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Preservice Teacher Education ◽  
Continuous Process ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
Integration Of Technology ◽  
Robust Decisions ◽  
Technology In Schools

Educators concerned with building technology-rich preservice teacher education seek inspiration in many places. Looking to successful graduate programs might serve to inform those who seek a foundation on which to build successful programs. With years of experience experimenting and studying teacher education at the graduate, inservice level have led to a set of design strategies the authors recommend as guides to making robust decisions about technology-rich preservice teacher education. This chapter is divided into three sections. The first section presents a brief discussion of preservice teacher technology education and the Integration of Technology in Schools (ITS) advanced studies graduate program. The second presents five guiding design strategies to inform the continuous process of technology-rich teacher education. The chapter concludes with a third section that discusses the implications of those design strategies for preservice teacher education.

scholarly journals Survival Kit or Lessons for Life? Future Directions for Preservice Teacher Education from the Perceptions of Newer Teachers

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Glassford ◽  
Noel Hurley
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Preservice Teacher ◽  
Teacher Candidates ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Preservice Teacher Education ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Preservice Program

Recent literature, supported by a survey of secondary school teachers in southwestern Ontario, Canada, indicates that preservice teacher education does not adequately prepare graduating teacher candidates to thrive in a profession that is ironically, driven by change. Attempts at reform have focused on the basic aspects of the typical preservice program: foundations, curriculum methods and field experience. The results have been decidedly discouraging. Positive improvement will hinge both on a recognition by teacher-education institutions, of the inevitable compromise between short-term necessity and long-term vision, and on their willingness to implement, carefully and constructively, promising innovations such as action research and centers of pedagogy.

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