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Mutually beneficial? Middle school educators’ perceptions about the benefits and challenges of a school–university partnership [PDF]

open access: yesSchool-University Partnerships
Purpose – The paper identifies and explores the perspectives of middle school educators regarding the benefits and challenges of an ongoing, emerging school–university partnership.
Michael DiCicco, Shawn A. Faulkner
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Addressing the shortage of African American male teachers in minority-serving school districts with innovative partnerships [PDF]

open access: yesSchool-University Partnerships
Purpose – The paper discusses a partnership between Huston–Tillotson University (HT), a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) and the Austin Independent School District (AISD), a minority-serving school district, both in Austin, Texas, with a ...
Jesse Rivers
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Catholic Teacher Preparation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Abstract The history of Catholic Teacher Education is linked to the growth and development of Catholic schools that began in the early nineteenth century. The Catholic Church struggled to recruit enough certificated teachers and relied heavily on pupil teachers. This began to be resolved with the opening of Notre Dame College, Glasgow,
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On Preparing Teachers [PDF]

open access: yesPS: Political Science & Politics, 1971
This "Teaching Note" is prompted by Gerald Benjamin's "On Making Teaching 'U' " (P.S., Winter, 1971). Benjamin, it seems to me, overemphasizes formal entries in university catalogs in asserting that not enough is being done about preparing teachers of political science. While it is unclear where he stands with respect to the formal offerings he cites ("
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Novice middle school teachers’ preparedness for teaching, and the helpfulness of supports: A survey of one state

open access: yesEducation Policy Analysis Archives, 2020
Novice teachers’ readiness for teaching may affect the quality of the classroom environment and teachers’ likelihood of remaining in teaching. Using a survey of novice teachers in one state, we examine teachers’ preparedness for teaching, the supports ...
Bradford Chaney   +2 more
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Culturally Responsive Dispositions in Prospective Mathematics Teachers

open access: yesDiscourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2016
Sustaining teachers in culturally and linguistically diverse schools has been a prominent issue for years. This qualitative study focused on the impact of an enhanced preparation program on the cultural dispositions of five pre-service mathematics ...
Williams Desha L.   +3 more
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Well-prepared middle school teachers: Common ground or subtle divide between practitioners and university faculty in the State of Oregon, United States

open access: yesKEDI Journal of Educational Policy, 2010
This qualitative study followed a survey study that investigated university faculty, classroom teachers, and principals’ perceptions of well-prepared middle school teachers in the state of Oregon in the United States.
Linda Samek   +5 more
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We are All Made of Stars: A Metaphor for Exploring the Greater Whole Beliefs Subsist In

open access: yesJournal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2020
Beliefs influence prospective teachers’ decision-making processes as they resist or accept the curriculum developed by teacher educators. Beliefs of prospective teachers have been considered in a variety of way.
Carlos Nicolas Gomez
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Modulation of Homer1 EVH1 domain internal dynamics by putative autism‐associated mutations

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The putative autism‐associated M65I and S97L variants of the EVH1 domain of the postsynaptic scaffold protein Homer1 do not exhibit substantial changes in their overall structure or partner binding. Both of them, but especially the M65I variant, show altered internal dynamics relative to the wild‐type domain on the μs‐ms timescale, indicated by the ...
Fanni Farkas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

The skills required for transition to university and study in biological sciences: A student perspective

open access: yesFEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Bioscience students were asked for their opinions on the value and teaching of skills. 204 responded that teamwork, time management and study skills are necessary to reach University, that scientific writing, research, laboratory and presentation skills are taught effectively during their studies, while other skills are gained inherently through study ...
Janella Borrell, Susan Crennell
wiley   +1 more source

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