Developing Self- and Cultural-Awareness Through Introductory Education Courses

2017 ◽  
pp. 67-86
Author(s):  
Heather Coffey ◽  
Susan B. Harden ◽  
Erik Jon Byker ◽  
Amy J. Good ◽  
Larry B. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
First Year ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Urban Classrooms ◽  
Education Courses

Using case study method, this project examines the perceptions and practices related to development of self and cultural awareness among a cohort of 104 (n=104) first-year students, all aspiring to become future teachers. Over the course of one academic semester, first year students who planned to enter the teacher education program participated in readings, activities, assignments, field based observations, and discussions developed to facilitate self and cultural awareness. The findings from analyses of these artifacts indicate that pre-service teachers began to demonstrate deeper awareness of how personal opinions and biases influenced their interactions with others and the types of characteristics related to appreciating diversity (Akiba, 2011) in urban classrooms. This study has implications for engaging first year students in early field-based clinical experiences in order to develop self and cultural awareness in preparation for teaching.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF CASE TECHNOLOGY IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING CHEMISTRY TO FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN THE FIELD OF PHARMACY

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
S. Vitvytska ◽  
I. Kovalchuk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
First Year ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Teaching Chemistry ◽  
First Year Students

The article substantiates the expediency of using case technology in the process of studying chemical disciplines, which is not only one of the top priorities of modern professionally-oriented learning technologies, but also adapted to the formation of professional competence of future specialists in the field of pharmacy. The tendencies of introduction of the case study method in the practice of professional higher education are revealed; the main tasks and objectives of application of the case method in the process of professional training of students are formulated. Case-study based lessons are reviewed and described, major stages of “case” use are highlighted, as well as the role of the teacher and the student at each corresponding stage is indicated. Authors’ own case-study based technologies and experience of their successful and effective practical application and exploitation in the process of studying chemical disciplines in Zhytomyr College of Pharmacy are revealed and substantiated. The article contains the results and analysis of the responses of undergraduates and first-year students about the need for chemical knowledge, which were collected through an anonymous survey. The role, criteria, stages of realization of professional orientation of teaching chemistry as a complex multifunctional process aimed at students' awareness of motives, needs of future professional activity, combination of theoretical and practical components of educational content are clarified. The value of the case study method in the professional development of a pharmaceutical specialist during college studies is argued. The aim of the study is to expand the range of opportunities for teachers of professional higher education to use the latest technology of case-study in the process of forming the professional competence of future pharmacists in the process of studying chemical disciplines. The result of the use of case technology is the training of a qualified competitive specialist, as well as the formation of key competencies of the student, his/her ability to self-development, self-determination, self-education.

Teaching Writing in the Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program Applying a Process-Conference Approach

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Helen McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Teaching Writing ◽  
First Year ◽  
James Cook ◽  
Entry Requirements ◽  
Oral Communications ◽  
Regular Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

The Aboriginal and Islander Teacher Education Program (AITEP) is an affirmative action program offering entry to teacher education courses at James Cook University to Aboriginal and Islander students who do not meet direct entry requirements. The program operates with a ‘stretched’ first year. First year subjects in the regular teacher education courses are spread over three semesters instead of two, and students are required to undertake additional subjects - Study Skills and Oral Communications, Written Communications, and Introductory Mathematics during that 18 months. This paper began as a personal exploration into the way in which the teaching of writing within these additional subjects had developed and to provide a greater understanding of the process of teaching writing.

scholarly journals Roles, relationships and emotions: Student teachers’ understanding of feedback as interpersonal

2021 ◽  
pp. 003452372198937
Author(s):  
Caroline Elbra-Ramsay
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
First Year ◽  
Case Study Methodology ◽  
Study Methodology ◽  
Undergraduate Programme ◽  
Phenomenological Case Study ◽  
International Teacher

This paper reports the findings of a small-scale study seeking to investigate how student teachers, within a three-year undergraduate programme, understand feedback. Feedback has been central to debates and discussion in the assessment literature in recent years. Hence, in this paper, feedback is positioned within the often-contradictory discourses of assessment, including perspectives on student and teacher feedback. The study focused on two first year undergraduate student teachers at a small university in England and considered the relationships between their understanding of feedback as a student, their understanding of feedback as an emerging teacher, and the key influences shaping these understandings. A phenomenological case study methodology was employed with interviews as the prime method of data collection. Themes emerged as part of an Nvivo analysis, including emotional responses, relationships and dialogue, all of which appear to have impacted on the students’ conceptual understanding of feedback as indelibly shaped by its interpersonal and affective, rather than purely cognitive or ideational, dimensions. The paper therefore seeks to contribute to the wider feedback discourse by offering an analysis of empirical data. Although situated within English teacher education, there are tentative conclusions that are applicable to international teacher education and as well as higher education more generally.

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 Beginning Student Teachers’ Professional Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-164
Author(s):  
Gregor STEINBEIß
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Teacher Identity ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Ideal Teacher ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Teacher Students

Abstract: This article investigates teachers’ professional identity of beginning first-year students through their beliefs about being a teacher. The presented study focuses on Austrian teacher students’ (N=18) conceptions of becoming a professional; what convictions student teachers reflect on, which professional identity emerges and what synthesis of a professional teacher identity position can be portrayed at the beginning of teacher education. Through inductively driven content analysis all statements (N=401) have been combined, and a unified synthesis of a beginning student teachers’ professional identity was formed. Three main categories were found: the “ideal” teacher, “good” teaching, and the “optimal” working environment. The results showed a highly idealistic view of being a teacher. The majority of statements referred to teaching from a pupil-centered perspective by strongly emphasising personality traits, student-teacher relationships, and teachers’ professional knowledge. Based on the results, the role of professional identity in Austrian’s teacher education is discussed, and further implementations in research are recommended.

scholarly journals ARE COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES FREQUENTLY USED IN SPEAKING CLASS?

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agung Wicaksono
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
First Year ◽  
English Department ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Systematic Technique ◽  
English Class ◽  
The Right

<p>Communication strategy is the way to help the speakers when facing difficulties in communication using English as a second language. This case study, at the first year students of English Department, aims to know the most frequent students’ strategies to communicate in speaking activity in speaking class. It is  found that thirteen communication strategies were used by the students in speaking English class, but not all of the communication strategies were used in every conversation, but only certain communication strategy was used. It depends on  the materials difficulties. Furhermore, the most frequent  communication strategies is stalling or time gaining strategy. As they need some time to think and then continue talking after they find the right words they need to communicate. This findings is in line with the propossed theory stated that communication strategy is defined as a systematic technique employed by a speaker to express his or her meaning when facing certain difficulties in communication.</p>

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