ACS's Adopt a Teacher Program

A Technological Teacher Education Program Planning Model

The purpose of the paper is to briefly state the case for a revised technological1 teacher education program and describe a conceptual model developed at the Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario. The model outlined assumes that a re-thinking of how technological teachers learn to teach is necessary if new ways of teaching are to be fostered. The need has three dimensions. Fir...

Student-Teacher Experiences from a New practicum Program in Tabriz Farhangian University: A Phenomenological study

Aims: The purpose of this study was to study student-teacher experiences on implementing a new internship program at Tabriz Farhangian University. Methods: The population of this study is students-teachers of Farhangian University of Tabriz campus during the academic year of 2017-2018. They were 1641 Students-teachers. Sampling method is purposeful and the number of interviewees were 17. A sem...

Being bilingual teacher-researchers: a case study of a research-oriented school-engaged teacher education program

Western-Anglophone universities are increasingly focusing on internationalization, but have not made languages a strategic focus. This paper argues that the bilingual competence of international students is an asset rather than a deficit. It reports a case study of the Research-Oriented School-Engaged Teacher Education (ROSETE) Program, which is an international collaborative professional devel...

Secondary Mathematics Teacher Differences: Teacher Quality and Preparation in a New York City Alternative Certification Program

Providing students in urban settings with quality teachers is important for student achievement. This study examined the differences in content knowledge, attitudes toward mathematics, and teacher efficacy among several different types of alternatively certified teachers in a sample from the New York City Teaching Fellows program in order to determine teacher quality. Findings revealed that hig...

Systemic Risk, Designation, and the ACSS