Improving a Teacher-Training CurriculumThe Professional Education of High School Teachers: An Analysis and Evaluation of the Prescribed Courses in Education for Prospective High School Teachers at the University of Minnesota. W. E. Peik

1931 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-75
Author(s):  
Percival W. Hutson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
The University

Offering an anatomy and physiology course through a high school-university partnership: the Minnesota model

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murray Jensen ◽  
Allison Mattheis ◽  
Anne Loyle
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Experiential Learning ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Concurrent Enrollment ◽  
Program Quality ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
The University ◽  
Student Inquiry

This article describes a one-semester anatomy and physiology course that is currently offered through the concurrent enrollment program at the University of Minnesota. The article explains how high school teachers are prepared to teach the course and describes efforts to promote program quality, student inquiry, and experiential learning. Recommendations are made for anatomy and physiology instructors who are involved in similar endeavors.

News and Notes

1921 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-214
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
National Council ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
The University

Dr. John H. Minnick was elected President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics at the annual meeting at Atlantic City. Dr. Minnick has been unusually active in secondary school mathematics. He is now engaged in training high school teachers in mathematics in the University of Pennsylvania. Many readers will recall Dr. Minnick’s Tests of Abilities in Geometry, a scientific monograph on the nature of the abilities which are involved in proving a proposition in geometry.

scholarly journals The Week-End Astronomy Class for Teachers

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 311-313
Author(s):  
James H. Hensley
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Elementary School Teachers ◽  
School Science ◽  
High School Science ◽  
Science Assessment ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Course Work ◽  
The University

Astronomy is an integral part of many high-school science programs. Project STAR and the Science Assessment and Research Project at the University of Minnesota have recently recognized this. In addition, astronomy is a part of most elementary and middle-school science programs. In the Platteville, Wisconsin, school system, the solar system is a unit of study for all third grade students and a study of the stars is a part of the eighth grade science program. This is also true for other school systems in this area, in the Chicago area, and I would suspect, across the nation.However, most elementary school teachers have had little science course work and none in astronomy. Middle-school and high-school teachers have better backgrounds for teaching science but little or no astronomy course work. Some of those who teach astronomy are active in local astronomy groups and read Astronomy or Sky and Telescope magazines, but this is the exception rather than the rule.

Post-method Pedagogy in Moroccan EFL Classrooms: Public High Schools in Meknes City as a Case

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Mohamed Aymane Sbai
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
High School Teachers ◽  
Prospective Teachers ◽  
Training Programs ◽  
Classroom Research ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Teacher Training Programs ◽  
Conventional Methods ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

The ultimate goal of this paper is to investigate the pedagogical views and attitudes of Moroccan high school teachers towards Method-based pedagogy. It attempts to investigate the extent to which teachers are satisfied with and committed to conventional methods. Also, the paper aims at investigating the alternative practices teachers are more likely to resort to in order to compensate for the limitations of conventional methods. In addition to this, a further objective of this study is to investigate the extent to which pre-service teacher training programs in Morocco are aware of the challenges of the post-method era. This is measured through their awareness of the requirements of the post-method era and the extent to which teacher trainers concern themselves with equipping the prospective teachers with the necessary skills to be reflective researchers and responsibly eclectic teachers. In this respect, the data collection instruments opted for in the present study ranged from quantitative to qualitative in nature. The findings reveal that the vast majority of Moroccan high school teachers (P=78%) are dissatisfied with conventional methods and - (P=96%) of them- are not committed to one or two teaching methods. The vast majority report that they resort to an eclectic approach to language teaching due to the impracticality and inflexibility of the established methods. Most teachers (P=80%) admit that they use a random eclecticism as they rely mainly on their intuitive rather than principled judgments. In this regard, interviews with teacher trainers and supervisors also reveal that pre-service teacher training programs in Morocco limit themselves only to training the prospective teachers to use methods and approaches without training them to be responsibly eclectic. The findings also show that the majority of teachers do, to some extent, know about classroom research; however, they - (P=72%) of them- have never conducted it inside their classrooms. The teachers (P=57%) attribute this to the lack of financial support and to the fact that they are not well-trained to conduct research inside their classrooms. Finally, the results of this study imply many suggestions of which we mention: the introduction of a post-method pedagogy in the Moroccan pre-service teacher training programs, equipping teachers with the methodological tools necessary as well as supporting them financially to conduct classroom-research for the purpose of constructing teaching methodologies that suit the needs to the very specific students and contexts within which they work.

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