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应助: 12 (小学生)
金币: 26645.9
散金: 1149
红花: 34
帖子: 9735
在线: 1968.6小时
虫号: 971151
注册: 2010-03-14
专业: 公共管理

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Field experiences

Each year, our students carry out a yearlong
practicum in which they learn to apply
the principles covered in coursework to the
demands of their teaching positions. They
complete projects in their own classrooms
and school buildings, and they plan and
implement instructional lessons and interventions
across a wide range of learning and
behavior problems, and across school, home
and community environments. The practica
are collaborative in nature in that special and
general class teachers work in school-based
teams on developing lessons and interventions.
Throughout the year, we assist the
teachers in planning their practicum activities.
We give written directions for each step
in their projects, worksheets for completing
the activities, and case study examples showing
how course concepts may be applied in
real life situations. During class meetings, we
review the past week’s practicum assignment
and plan the next set of activities. We also
make visitations to each site to obtain firsthand
information about the circumstances in
which the trainees teach and to supplement the feedback we give.
By combining e-mail and fax transmissions with site visitations, we
can give very detailed and situation-specific
feedback to each student, bringing a high
level of supervision and advice not just to
their understanding of course concepts, but
to their application of these concepts in reallife
settings.

Approach to Teacher Education

In order to deliver CTEP to local communities,
we utilized technologies that can
operate reliably during a 2 1/2 hour class session
and that can also handle the array of inclass
and out-of-class activities that we have
in our courses. Over the years we have
broadened the technologies we use as the
School of Education and rural school corporations
in Indiana have acquired more
sophisticated technologies and as the technologies
themselves have become more reliable
and easier to use. When we started
CTEP thirteen years ago, the only technology
option we had was two-way voice communication
over speaker phones supported by
audiographic computer software operating
over dedicated telephone lines. Now we
offer courses using Ameritech’s Vision-
Athena, a large-group videoconferencing
system that transmits high quality video and
audio over high speed telephone lines.
Ameritech has equipped our School of
Education and school buildings in several
rural areas with large-screen monitors,
speakers, built-in cameras and microphones.
In addition, both origination and remote sites
have computers, document cameras, and
videotape units for displaying graphics, hard
copies or videos.
We have also begun integrating webbased
conferencing in our program as well.
We have found that web conferencing offers
a powerful tool for creating an interactive,
collaborative environment in teacher preparation.
Because it promotes content-based
discussion among students, it allows
prospective teachers to share their experiences
and concerns, to engage in group
problem solving, and to develop and test out
new ideas. For the past several years, we
have been using SiteScape Forum that incorporates
two key elements for discussion:
forums and teams. A forum is a collection of
related information or resources that allows
learners to interact on key issues and course
concepts with other class members. A team
is a shared environment in which students in
small groups work together on designated
tasks and problem solving activities. We
have students participate in at least three
types of collaborative discussions:
a. G roup discussion-students discuss
specific issues and practices in the
field. This approach allows students
to advance their understanding of
course concepts and procedures.
b. Posting work samples-students post
samples from their assignments, projects
and practicum activities. This
approach enables students to build a
database of teaching examples and
applications
c. Cooperative projects-students work
in teams on long term projects. This
approach has students work together
on assignments and lessons so they
share common interests, suggest solutions
to problem situations, obtain
feedback and gain support from one
another.
In addition, we use basic technologies
such as fax machines and e-mail. They are
among the most powerful tools in our program
because they give us continuous access
to students and provide for rapid asynchronous
communication. Teachers fax or e-mail
assignments, test answers and practicum
reports, or they send us notes when they
need clarification or have difficulties with
their assignments. Instructors give feedback
by fax or e-mail so students can quickly find
out how they did on the activities and put
any advice or direction into practice with
minimal delay.

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