Toolboxes for Teaching in the Middle Grades: Opportunities to Learn in Two Preparation Pathways

Autor/inn/en	Conklin, Hilary G.; Daigle, Elizabeth
Titel	Toolboxes for Teaching in the Middle Grades: Opportunities to Learn in Two Preparation Pathways
Quelle	In: Theory and Research in Social Education, 40 (2012) 2, S.164-191 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-3104
DOI	10.1080/00933104.2012.669663
Schlagwörter	Class Activities; Preservice Teacher Education; Teacher Education Programs; Social Studies; Methods Courses; Preservice Teachers; Middle School Teachers; Teaching Methods; Secondary Education; Guides; Curriculum; Assignments; Learning Activities; Early Adolescents + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Gemeinschaftskunde; Methodisch-didaktische Anleitung; Middle school; Middle schools; Teacher; Teachers; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Sekundarbereich; Handbuch; Leitfaden; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Assignment; Auftrag; Zuweisung; Lernaktivität
Abstract	This research examines the preparation of middle grades social studies teachers by investigating opportunities for learning in 2 social studies methods courses in distinctive teacher education pathways: a specialized middle grades program and a secondary social studies program. The findings suggest that, although both methods course instructors described their central course goal as one of providing a "toolbox" of strategies for their preservice teachers to use in classrooms, the course curricula, assignments, class texts, and class activities in these 2 social studies methods courses provided quite different opportunities for teachers to acquire the tools for these toolboxes. The comparison we describe points to the importance of teacher education programs attending to how curricular emphases, instructional practices, program purposes, and program contexts come together to form a set of learning opportunities for preservice teachers. (Contains 1 table and 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10