Open AccessReading the Map: Locating and Navigating the Academic Skills Development of Pre-Service Teachers
Author(s) -
Janet Moles,
Llewellyn Wishart
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of university teaching and learning practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.258
H-Index - 8
ISSN - 1449-9789
DOI - 10.53761/1.13.3.4
Subject(s) - bachelor , action research , psychology , curriculum , mathematics education , professional development , pedagogy , teacher education , medical education , early childhood , medicine , political science , developmental psychology , law
This article reports on an action research project that was implemented to strengthen preservice teachers’ academic skills and competencies in a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education course. Strategies identified as effective included mapping assessment tasks to State and National Early Childhood Education Curriculum and Standards Frameworks and Graduate Teacher Standards and against the skills needed to complete assessment tasks. Tools and resources were developed by lecturers to identify students’ existing skill levels and then scaffold the required competencies into course teaching. The critical reflections of lecturers on their professional learning through this process were found to be integral to successful outcomes for students.