The purpose of this study was to understand the experiences of faculty and preprofessional students who teach and learn within cohorts. The authors also explored how common cohort learning experiences prepared candidates to teach in inclusive settings. The findings are presented as a multiparticipant case study of a cohort-based dual certification program (blended early childhood regular and sp…
Experiential learning has long been advocated for improving learning and creating positive memories and dispositions. The Common Core Curriculum advocates the integration of literacy and math with social studies and science in the belief that such procedures will redirect and improve the depth of learning. The Holocaust Literacy Program reported here is an integrated model for instruction that …
Qualitative methods were used to identify and analyze issues related to a distance education course. While classroom performance does not appear to be a factor related to differences in remote sites versus the local site, interactivity among the students and between the teacher and the students tends to be affected from the compressed video format. Issues of classroom management, facilitation a…
Children in special education too frequently are exposed to second-rate academic programs and inferior curriculums when compared to children in regular education. As a direct consequence, they show poor results on state examinations and are ill-prepared for future academic and workplace success. This article proposes rigorous ELITE Schools (Everyone Learning with Information Technology) as one …
This exploratory quantitative study assessed 149 behaviors, characteristics, and techniques considered indicative of expertise to determine what social scientists in Agricultural Communications, Education, Extension, and Leadership (ACEEL) disciplines value. A total of 731 social scientists from 25 land-grant universities across the United States surveyed in the fall of 2018 served as the popul…
In this article, the need for teacher education programmes to offer support for the development of pre-service teacher agency is discussed in order to enable prospective teachers to operate agentically in their professional contexts. Using Priestley et al.'s (2015) ecological framework for teacher agency, I reflect on the extent to which I achieve this goal in my own teacher education context a…