Assisting Performance in Teaching and Learning

Susan A. Colby; Terry S. Atkinson

Teaching Education Vol. 15, No. 4 (2004) pp. 351–362

Although Vygotskian principles involving the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) are hailed as tenets undergirding teaching and learning within a constructivist setting, these principals have not been implemented widely within school classrooms....

Online Professional Development: Reaching Across One State to Veteran Teachers

Terry S. Atkinson; Katherine A. O'Connor

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2005 (2005) pp. 3038–3044

This presentation relates to the use of information technology in teacher education, specifically inservice instruction for veteran and novice teachers. The innovative project to be described allows all K-8 public school teachers across North...

Topics: Teachers, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods

Establishing Professional Development Partnerships Online: Reaching Out to Veteran Teachers

Terry S. Atkinson; Katherine A. O'Connor

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 51, No. 3 (May 2007) pp. 21–29

This article describes a study on the module-based online professional development project. The professional development model providing a basis for the Reading CEU (continuing education unit) Module Project involved four groups of stakeholders:...

Building Their Stories: Electronic Case Studies of Struggling Readers

Terry S. Atkinson; Sarah C. Williams

Reading Horizons Vol. 47, No. 1 (2006) pp. 27–46

Ten university graduate students created electronic case studies describing the learning of struggling readers as a part of this study designed to yield insights about literacy education and the efficacy of electronic case study development. A...

Who's Teaching, Who's Learning? Analyzing the Professional Growth of Graduate Student Tutors

Terry S. Atkinson; Susan A. Colby

Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning Vol. 14, No. 2 (May 2006) pp. 227–245

This qualitative study examined the professional growth of literacy teachers as they scaffolded students' one-to-one literacy learning within a university reading clinic tutoring experience. These teachers--graduate students within a reading...

Voices in Videoconferencing: Technology Integration in Teacher Education Courses

Katherine A. O'Connor; Terry S. Atkinson; Melissa N. Matusevich; H Carol Greene; Carol Pope; Amy J. Good

Journal of Computing in Teacher Education Vol. 23, No. 2 (2007) pp. 45–52

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...