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Achieving scientific and technological literacy for all students is a goal of recent science education reform efforts (American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1993; National Research Council, 1996). Teacher educators play a critical...

The purpose of this article is to highlight technology integration within a unique professional development school (PDS) context. Emphasis is placed on teaching interns (i.e., prospective elementary teachers in their final year of preparation) who...

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to elicit the perceptions of the three key faculty members involved in conceptualizing and implementing technology integration into an elementary science methods course at a large northeastern...

This interpretive case study explores the nature of prospective elementary teachers' evidence-based philosophy statements for science teaching and learning, as portrayed in web-based science teaching portfolios. Evidence-based philosophy statements...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight technology infusion within a unique professional development school (PDS) context. Emphasis is placed on teaching interns (preservice elementary teachers in their final year of preparation) who were...

The Inquiry Empowering Technologies for Supporting Scientific Inquiry course was designed to engage prospective teachers, as science learners, in developing their understandings about and abilities to do scientific inquiry. The design of the course ...

This qualitative case study examined web-based portfolio development in the service of supporting reflective thinking and learning within the innovative context of Professional Development Schools. Specifically, this study investigated the nature of ...

Podcasts provide an innovative means to deliver cross-curricular and pedagogically rich content to a wide range of audiences. We are using podcasts in an integrated technology project at the College of Education at the Pennsylvania State University (...

While many researchers acknowledge the centrality of video data when examining classroom practice, limitations in video analysis software have created barriers to exploring the full potential of video artifacts in research on teacher education. In...

Science instruction is a persistent and well-documented area of difficulty for many elementary teachers. Learning to teach science is particularly challenging for novices given that there are relatively few models of effective science teaching...

Video cases have become used extensively in teacher education as one approach for illustrating best practices to novice teachers. Those video cases that include access to experienced teachers' decision making during teaching have proven to be...