Preparing Pre-Service Teachers for the Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-29
Author(s):  
Renee Moran ◽  
Laura Roberston ◽  
Chihche Tai ◽  
Karin J. Keith ◽  
Jamie Price ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Teacher Perspectives ◽  
Tennessee State University ◽  
East Tennessee State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Analytic Skills ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

In this chapter, we explore how our team of professors at East Tennessee State University integrated computational thinking into elementary education courses for pre-service teachers. We lean on current research to understand the definition, purpose, and culture surrounding computational thinking and consider how it may develop students' analytic skills and critical. Because of our particular context, we are interested in the play of gender and socioeconomic status in the development of technological and computational abilities. We share ideas we experimented with in Science and English language arts pre-service methods courses, as well as faculty and pre-service teacher perspectives on the developing experience.

scholarly journals Policy Matters: Development of a Legislative Advocacy Week to Engage Student Pharmacists in Policy Discussions

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cortney M Mospan ◽  
Katelyn M Alexander ◽  
Caden W Cox ◽  
Tyler Jones ◽  
Nicole Hawks
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Primary Elections ◽  
Tennessee State University ◽  
East Tennessee State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Student Organization ◽  
National Community ◽  
Legislative Advocacy

Policy and advocacy discussions and activities are generally topics that student pharmacists are less excited to engage in during their PharmD curriculum. These can also be challenging to integrate within a curriculum in a meaningful, impactful, and engaging manner. At a college of pharmacy, two student organization chapters (American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Pharmacists and National Community Pharmacists Association) partnered together to host a Legislative Advocacy Week centered on the primary elections for the 2016 presidential race. This Note discusses the conceptualization, planning, events, impact, and analysis of this week. Conflict of Interest At the time of this activity, Dr. Mospan was a faculty member at East Tennessee State University Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy.   Type: Note

A Case on Teaching Critical Thinking and Argument Mapping in a Teacher Education Context

2014 ◽  
pp. 119-139
Author(s):  
Yasemin Oral
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Critical Thinking ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
State University ◽  
Large Size ◽  
Argument Mapping ◽  
Turkish State ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

This chapter is based on the classroom work of a course on critical thinking designed as part of a pre-service teacher education program in English language teaching at a large-size Turkish state university. With its dual focus on both modernist and postmodern approaches to critical thinking, the course offers scope for classwork that concentrates on the skills to identify the parts and structure of arguments. To this end, argument mapping has been utilized to enhance understanding of the components of arguments and to facilitate the analysis of arguments. This chapter seeks to illustrate the materials and activities used when argument maps have been constructed during the class sessions. Furthermore, drawing from the data gathered from students' journal entries, I argue for a high interplay of the perceived efficacy of argument mapping with the content, length, and complexity of arguments as well as the anxiety evoked by these factors.

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