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| News Stories about TNE@UVa | |
| Teacher Education Professor Eleanor Wilson describes the effects of TNE on her work Spring 2005 Support from TNE has helped me become more effective in the classroom,, has made my students better teachers, and has made their pupils more successful. During this past year I have benefited personally and professionally from my association with the TNE initiative to a much greater degree than I anticipated. The TNE emphasis on identifying ways in which preservice students contribute to pupil learning led me make significant changes in several methods courses I currently teach; the support of the TNE Teaching Assessment Initiative was an important catalyst for bringing about these improvements. In the spring of 2003 I received two TNE mini-grants, one for a course in which preservice students introduce elementary pupils to inquiry-based learning through technology applications, and the second for a course in which preservice students tutor elementary pupils in reading skills. As a result of collaboration with TAI faculty members Patricia Crawford and Scott Imig I reorganized the focus of these courses, developing pre- and post- measures for the preservice students’ and pupils’ learning, and sequencing course content more effectively than previously. Re-thinking course objectives produced benefits for all: course feedback was more positive, preservice students reported they felt they had contributed to their pupils’ progress in a substantive way, and the pupils’ principal reports that fewer will have to attend summer school. In both cases, elementary pupils showed significant gains in learning, an important indicator of the impact of the preservice students’ work. I feel the direction provided by the TNE initiative combined with the support of the TAI faculty is providing direction for the Curry School’s teacher education program to identify effective ways for future teachers to influence pupil learning. |
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