Abstract

This manuscript describes the efforts of several instructors who incorporated videoconferencing in their teacher education courses at two large universities in the southeastern United States. Professors preparing teachers to teach elementary and middle school examined their interactive videoconference experiences linking preservice teachers with students in real classroom settings. Three projects are described. The first project involved "teleobservation" whereby professors co-taught with K-6 classroom teachers while preservice teachers observed. The second project focused on a middle-grades English Language Arts professor whose preservice teachers observed middle school students in real time. In the third project, a university professor served as a live audience for an elementary Reader's Theatre performance. The lessons learned through the evaluation of these three projects are discussed.

Citation

O'Connor, K.A., Atkinson, T.S., Matusevich, M.N., Greene, H.C., Pope, C. & Good, A.J. (2007). Voices in Videoconferencing: Technology Integration in Teacher Education Courses. Journal of Computing in Teacher Education, 23(2), 45-52. Retrieved December 11, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/55276/.

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Keywords

• Education Courses
• educational technology
• Elementary Schools
• evaluation
• faculty
• higher education
• language arts
• Middle School Students
• Middle Schools
• preservice teacher education
• preservice teachers
• teacher education
• Teacher Educators
• teaching methods
• Team Teaching
• technology integration
• Teleconferencing