Preparing secondary teacher candidates
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The document summarizes the teacher education program at Abilene Christian University, which was selected as exemplary in Texas for teaching technology integration. The program includes studying research-based instructional practices, exploring new models like project-based learning, and planning lessons incorporating technology and higher-order thinking. Teacher candidates practice teach lessons, receive feedback, and re-teach to improve, and reflect regularly on their learning.
Preparing secondary teacher candidates
- 1. By Sam Stewart, Ed.D International Christian Community for Teacher Education March 25, 2012
- 2. Abilene Christian University's Teacher Education Program was selected as the exemplary program in the state of Texas for teaching teacher candidates how to incorporate technology into instruction. http://www.powerontexas.com/?page_id=2580
- 3. Secondary Program Components 1. A study of research-based instructional practices. 2. Exploring new and innovative models for delivering instruction, i.e., Project-Based Learning and Standards-Based Learning. 3. Planning for instruction that incorporates technology and higher order thinking skills. 4. Practice teaching lessons where peers and instructors provide feedback for improvement and then re-teaching the lesson a second time. 5. Multiple opportunities for reflection the teacher candidate learning.
- 4. Research-Based Instructional Practices 1. Comparing and Contrasting 2. Summarizing and Notetaking 3. Differentiating Instruction 4. Using Homework Effectively 5. Non-linguistic Representations 6. Cooperative Learning 7. Hypothesizing 8. Questions and Advance Organizers
- 5. Instructional Planning 1. Teacher candidates evaluate their lessons with the HEAT scale. (http://loticonnection.cachefly.net/global_documents/HEAT_Framework_Poster.pdf) 2. Teacher candidates evaluate the level of technology of the lesson (http://www.iste.org/Libraries/PDFs/NETS-S_Standards.sflb.ashx)
- 6. Project-Based Learning 1. Teacher candidates visit a project-based high school. 2. Teacher candidates collaboratively plan a project- based lesson using the tools available at http://www.bie.org. 3. Teacher candidates present there project to the class and receive feedback from peers and instructors. 4. Teacher candidate revise their project for final submission and assessment.
- 7. Media-Lesson 1. Teacher candidates prepare and present a lesson that incorporates technology in some type of meaningful way. (This means that the students participating in the lesson will have to engage with the technology.) 2. Teacher candidates present their lesson to the class and instructors and receive feedback on their lesson. 3. Based on the feedback, teacher candidates reteach their lessons which are also critiqued and scored.