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Search results for: Program implementation
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In this study, the authors introduce the digital backpack as a means for creating a rich learning experience for students of multiple ages. Development, design, and refinement of the digital backpack are grounded in the theoretical framework of Universal Design for Learning(UDL). The UDL framework provides multiple solutions that support student learning. The findings show that the digital backpack provides a structure for districts and teachers to proactively plan how to they can support diverse learners in a project-based learning environment. In addition, it was found that the students with the least amount of technology experience were able to complete the project in the most efficient fashion.
Published: 2010
Updated: Mar. 09, 2011
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The goal of this review was to summarize studies that examined the effects of coaching on improvements in preservice and in-service teachers' implementation of evidence-based practices. The authors identified a total of 13 studies from the 20 years of literature they searched. The results show that coaching improved the extent to which teachers accurately implement evidence-based practices in classrooms or practicum settings. The article suggests implications for preservice and in-service teacher education.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jan. 23, 2011
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This article describes the process of teacher identification, selection, initial training, and on-going professional development that has developed at the Illinois Virtual High School (IVHS) over the past seven years. Some of the issues within the hiring process and professional development that the IVHS continues to struggle are examined including teacher certification and the changing nature of technology. The article concludes with a recommendation that teacher education programs assist in addressing these challenges to support IVHS and other virtual schools.
Published: 2009
Updated: Sep. 27, 2010
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This article describes a pilot of Virtual Schooling (VS) field experience within an initial teacher education program in the USA as part of a national project, including multimedia appendices. This field experience enabled future teachers to observe how an exemplary VS school teacher taught her course using blended technologies. Future teachers’ reflections revealed that they had overcome concerns and misperceptions about VS. Key elements identified include mirroring the natural setting using similar technologies, external and internal information gathering, guided observations and engagement with the class.
Published: 2009
Updated: Sep. 27, 2010
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This essay, drawn from theory, research, and the author’s practitioner research as a teacher educator, proposes a framework to inform teacher educators’ conceptualization and implementation of socially just teaching. The framework suggests that building on dispositions of fairness and the belief that all children can learn, a socially just teacher will engage in professional reflection and judgment using both an individual and a structural orientation to analyze the students’ academic difficulties. The author concludes with suggestions for how this framework can inform future research and dialogue in the teacher education community.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jul. 13, 2010
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Technology educators and school staffs are frequently challenged to accomplish high levels of implementation. The metaphor of the Implementation Bridge and four research-based constructs of the Concerns Based Adoption Model are introduced in this article. Each can be used to evaluate the extent of implementation and as diagnostic tools for facilitating implementation.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 29, 2010
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This study examined technology implementation practices associated with student learning gains. The findings highlight the importance of school practices in the areas of principal support and teacher collaboration around software use. Furthermore, the findings highlight the importance of teacher practices concerning classroom management and use of software-generated student performance data.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 29, 2010
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In an effort to generate a bottom-up approach for the program-wide implementation of electronic portfolios, this article first reports on the ways in which teacher candidates perceived the benefits and setbacks of this experience, after an initial course. Second, this article reports on whether and how the teacher candidates continued to develop their e-portfolios voluntarily throughout the program, after the initial course. The results indicate that even though the electronic portfolios were initially perceived to be highly beneficial, the voluntary nature of the ongoing process discouraged further development.
Published: 2010
Updated: Jun. 13, 2010
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In a world increasingly globalised, it is crucial that preservice teachers are equipped with a range of pedagogical knowledges, understandings and practices related to diversity and difference. This article reports on the implementation and learning outcomes of a teacher preparation initiative in an Australian university called Refugee Action Support, which seeks to develop and enhance such awareness. The initiative provides targeted training to preservice teachers in the vital areas of literacy and numeracy tuition, with the specific aim of preparing them to tutor humanitarian refugee students in high schools in Western Sydney, Australia.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 31, 2010
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The authors discuss an investigation into the understandings of trainee teachers about government policy. The authors use the UK government's 'Every Child Matters' (ECM). The project focused on trainees' reactions to the anticipated outcomes of ECM and their confidence to help implement the initiative in their roles as form tutors (home room teachers) and subject teachers. Trainees react positively to ECM but reveal uncertainty about its precise meaning and about the roles they would need to adopt as teachers.
Published: 2009
Updated: Jan. 31, 2010