This study is aimed to describe students' anxiety in learning speak at SMPN 40 Palembang. This study applied case study design with a qualitative approach. For preliminary study, Public Speaking Anxiety Scale (PSCAS) questionnaire was applied to find out the students’ anxiety level. Then five students were chosen as the participants of this study by using maximum variation sampling. Then, int…
A survey of member AACTE and/or NCATE approved institutions was conducted to determine the inclusion of information and skills relative to parent-teacher conferences in pre-service teacher preparation programs. The survey focused on identifying components of program models and the knowledge bases used for identifying components. Data did not provide significant information about program models …
Many teacher preparation programs now provide field experiences for preservice teachers as early as students' sophomore year. These field experience typically require students to visit a number of different classrooms. However, because (a) sophomore preservice teachers are inexperienced observers, (b) they are unfamiliar with the routines of the classes they visit, and (c) they rarely are able …
As relevant reform recommendations flowed from The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the Goodlad Consortium, the Holmes Group, the Carnegie Forum, and the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, an experimental teacher preparation program was being envisioned by a large urban school district, a local community college, and a state university. The Teacher Educa…
It is evident from literature that boys, especially African-American boys are viewed as "troublemakers" and this perception begins with teachers at the preschool level. In this paper, the author examines whether or not students in early childhood education from a community college receive adequate gender-sensitivity training. The students from a teacher education program established baseline by…
This dissertation explores the role of Iraqi E-press in crystallizing the orientations or directions of the public towards the local political issues like (demonstrations, parliamentarian elections, provincial elections, the public budget and its consequences, Iraq’s relations with neighboring countries, Iraqi HOR and its sessions, and the relation of the federal government with KRG). The dis…