Facilitating a community of practice to encourage organizational leadership: The journey of a professional developer

Teresa S. Foulger

Facilitating a community@of@practice to encourage organizational@leadership: The journey of a professional@developer (2004) pp. 1–208

This study explored the process of professional development involving five teacher participants working as a community of practice (CoP) in collaboration with a professional developer (the researcher). Of specific focus were factors related to the...

Graphic Assessment of TPACK Instrument (GATI) As a Professional Development Tool

Teresa S. Foulger

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 3157–3168

The popularity of TPACK is evident by the surge of literature surrounding the framework. But there is much debate about the foundation of the framework and the wickedness produced by the “fuzzy boundaries” of the overlapping circles. Some wonder...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Assessment, Professional Development

Enhancing the Writing Development of English Language Learners: Teacher Perceptions of Common Technology in Project-Based Learning

Teresa S. Foulger; Margarita Jimenez-Silva

Journal of Research in Childhood Education Vol. 22, No. 2 (2007) pp. 109–124

Results from this study suggest teachers believe technology may provide English language learners (ELLs) an advantage in developing writing skills. Using a theoretical framework by Hadaway, Vardell, and Young (2002) citing seven teacher practices...

Ten Tips for Involving Families through Internet-Based Communication

Sascha Mitchell; Teresa S. Foulger; Keith Wetzel

Young Children Vol. 64, No. 5 (September 2009) pp. 46–49

The research is clear that a family's involvement in their child's early education improves outcomes in areas such as the child's language, self-help, social, and motor skills. The more frequent the contact between home and school, the more the...

Filling the Gap with Technology Innovations: Standards, Curriculum, Collaboration, Success!

Mia Kim Williams; Teresa S. Foulger

Journal of Computing in Teacher Education Vol. 23, No. 3 (2007) pp. 107–114

Filling the Gap with Innovations is a study of a higher education professional development model used to infuse a teacher education program with technology innovations in order to address curriculum gaps. Professional educators at the university...

Students' Roles in Exposing Growing Pains: Using the "Dean's Concerns" to Refine Hybrid Instruction

Teresa S. Foulger; Audrey Amrein-Beardsley; Meredith J. Toth

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Vol. 23, No. 2 (2011) pp. 150–165

This study was instigated when 12 teacher education students expressed four concerns about their hybrid courses (part online, part face-to-face) to the college dean. In an effort gain the perspective of the broader population of students so...

Preparing Preservice Teachers for 21st Century Classrooms: Transforming Attitudes and Behaviors About Innovative Technology

Mia Kim Williams; Teresa S. Foulger; Keith Wetzel

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 2009) pp. 393–418

Keeping-up with progressing technology tools has been a troublesome issue for educational technology instructors for over ten years as they endeavor to prepare beginning teachers to integrate technology in their future classrooms. This paper...

Topics: Collaboration, Information Communication Technologies, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education, Educational Technology, Change, Instructional Design

Examining the Development of a Hybrid Degree Program: Using Student and Instructor Data to Inform Decision-Making

Audrey Amrein-Beardsley; Teresa S. Foulger; Meredith Toth

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 39, No. 4 (2007) pp. 331–357

This paper investigates the questions and considerations that should be discussed by administrators, faculty, and support staff when designing, developing and offering a hybrid (part online, part face-to-face) degree program. Using two Web...

Post-Implementation Insights about a Hybrid Degree Program

Meredith Toth; Teresa S. Foulger; Audrey Amrein-Beardsley

TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning Vol. 52, No. 3 (June 2008) pp. 76–80

Researchers and practitioners in the field of online learning continue to debate how to best leverage the convenience of online delivery while maintaining or increasing the quality and effectiveness of course content and delivery. While students...

Preparing Teachers to Integrate Technology into K-12 Instruction II: Examining the Effects of Technology-Infused Methods Courses and Student Teaching

Ray R. Buss; Teresa S. Foulger; Keith Wetzel; LeeAnn Lindsey

Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Vol. 34, No. 3 (2018) pp. 134–150

In a 2-year longitudinal study, we examined the effectiveness of a new technology-infused approach for teaching technology integration (TI) skills to teacher candidates. In the new approach, we infused learning to teach with technology into program...

The Evolution of the Required Educational Technology Course

Keith Wetzel; Teresa S. Foulger; Mia Kim Williams

Journal of Computing in Teacher Education Vol. 25, No. 2 (2009) pp. 67–71

University instructors discuss a required educational technology course in a teacher education program and the impact of two forces: (a) Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge, commonly known as TPACK (Misha & Koelher, 2006), and (b) action ...

We Innovate: The Role of Collaboration in Exploring New Technologies

Teresa S. Foulger; Mia Kim Williams; Keith Wetzel

International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Vol. 20, No. 1 (2008) pp. 28–38

Pre-service teachers faced an old problem with new possible solutions by working collaboratively to learn new technologies and changed the way they react to new tools. This approach required students to explore technologies independent of...

Preservice Teacher Education Benchmarking a Standalone Ed Tech Course in Preparation for Change

Teresa S. Foulger; Ray R. Buss; Keith Wetzel; LeeAnn Lindsey

Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Vol. 29, No. 2 (2013) pp. 48–58

In an effort to reform a teacher education program by strengthening content-area preparation and adding opportunities to practice by extending the time for student teaching, Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College eliminated a...

Professional Development 2.0: Transforming Teacher Education Pedagogy with 21st Century Tools

Leanna Archambault; Keith Wetzel; Teresa S. Foulger; Mia Kim Williams

Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education Vol. 27, No. 1 (2010) pp. 4–11

This paper discusses the outcomes of a professional development project offered to faculty of Arizona State University's College of Teacher Education and Leadership. The goal of this project was to assist instructors with progressing technologies...

The Big Reveal: Teacher Educator Technology Competencies

David Slykhuis; Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2457–2461

Abstract: Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs) were developed via a highly collaborative process involving many teacher educators, professional associations, and experts in the field. The research team conducted this study using the...

Topics: Creativity, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies

Invited Commentary: The Time is Now! Creating Technology Competencies for Teacher Educators

Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; David Slykhuis; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; Torrey Trust

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 24, No. 3 (July 2016) pp. 249–256

The way preservice teachers learn to use technology within their practice varies widely depending on the learning opportunities available (e.g., technology-infused teacher preparation program vs. standalone education technology course), and the...

Applying the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies

David A. Slykhuis; Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Vol. 2019, No. 1 (2019)

The National Educational Technology Plan (2016), charges teacher preparation programs with addressing educational technology in a program-deep and program-wide fashion with the claim that new teachers should be “prepared to teach with technology...

Nudging Tech Infusion into Student Teaching: Determining Institutional Readiness for Large-Scale, Site-Based, Professional Development

Teresa S. Foulger; Ray Buss; Keith Wetzel; LeeAnn Lindsey; Stacey Pasquel

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (Mar 02, 2015) pp. 27–32

This study was conducted to determine the current status of technology integration during student teaching in our college. It is a natural extension of efforts to integrate technology into preservice methods courses at Arizona State University, the...

Topics: Professional Development, Teaching Methods, Technology Leadership

Moral Spaces in MySpace: Preservice Teachers' Perspectives about Ethical Issues in Social Networking

Teresa S. Foulger; Ann Dutton Ewbank; Adam Kay; Sharon Osborn Popp; Heather Lynn Carter

Journal of Research on Technology in Education Vol. 42, No. 1 (2009) pp. 1–28

MySpace and Facebook are innovative digital communication tools that surpass traditional means of social interaction. However, in some instances in which educators have used these tools, public reactions to them have resulted in sanctions. With the...

Using TPACK as a Professional Development Framework: Benefits, Limitations, and Exploration of Other Possible Frames

Teresa S. Foulger; Keith Wetzel; LeeAnn Lindsey; Ray Buss; Stacey Pasquel

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2016 (Mar 21, 2016) pp. 2842–2849

For the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, moving from teaching a stand-alone course to addressing technology integration in a programmatic manner through technology infusion has been an effort of incremental change, guided by cycles of action reach...

Topics: Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Teacher Educator Technology Competencies: A Conversation with the Researchers

Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 1055–1059

With concern about how to improve the method by which teacher candidates learn to teach with technology, four teacher educators created a list of competencies that all teacher educators would need to develop. The Teacher Educator Technology...

Topics: Workforce Education, Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Technology Integration and Teacher Preparation: The Development of Teacher Educator Technology Competencies

Kevin J. Graziano; Teresa S. Foulger; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David Slykhuis

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2017 (Mar 05, 2017) pp. 2336–2346

Preservice teachers should be better prepared to teach with technology ?from day one? when they enter the profession (U.S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology, 2016). Teacher preparation curricula along with teacher educators?...

Topics: Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Teacher Educator Technology Competencies

Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 25, No. 4 (October 2017) pp. 413–448

The U.S. National Educational Technology Plan recommends the need to have a common set of technology competencies specifically for teacher educators who prepare teacher candidates to teach with technology (U.S. Department of Education, Office of...

Special Issue Editorial - The Teacher Educator Technology Competencies: So What? Now What?

David A. Slykhuis; Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford

Journal of Technology and Teacher Education Vol. 27, No. 4 (October 2019) pp. 431–436

“All teacher candidates should have equitable, high-quality technology experiences throughout their teacher preparation programs” (Foulger, Graziano, Schmidt-Crawford, & Slykhuis, 2017, p. 436). We wrote that sentence after having just completed a...

TETC Professional Development: An Online Program for Teacher Educators

David A. Slykhuis; Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Mark Hofer; John K. Lee; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 474–478

Teacher Candidates are not well enough prepared to teach with technology. While the stand-alone technology class attempts to prepare teacher candidates to use technology, all teacher education faculty need to be competent in the use of technology....

Topics: Instructional Design, faculty development, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Meeting the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies through Online Professional Development for Teacher Education Faculty

David A. Slykhuis; Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; Mark Hofer; John K. Lee

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2019 (Mar 18, 2019) pp. 866–870

The 2016 National Education Technology Plan introduced a call for teacher educators to improve the technology skills of teacher candidates by integrating technology throughout their teacher preparation programs. This necessitates that all teacher...

Topics: faculty development, Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Invited Panel: Fostering New Research following the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs): Research from the JTATE Special Issue, Preparing All Teacher Educators to Support Teacher Candidates' Integration of Technology

Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis; Yeng L. Change; Rhonda Christensen; Deborah R. Dillon; Andrea Parrish

SITE 2020--Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference Vol. 2020, No. 1 (2020)

The National Educational Technology Plan claims that teacher educators are often not equipped to do their part to prepare teacher candidates to graduate as proficient users of technology for teaching & learning (U.S. Department of Education, Office...

Action Steps for Systemically Advancing Technology Infusion in Teacher Preparation Programs

Kevin J. Graziano; Teresa S. Foulger; Arlene C. Borthwick; Jon M. Clausen; Julie A. Moore; Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis; Debra Sprague

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 440–447

Every new PK-12 teacher should learn how to select and use the most appropriate technology tools so they can become proficient in teaching with technology upon entry into the field. The 2017 United States Department of Education National Educational ...

Topics: faculty development, Technology Leadership

Multiple Perspectives on Strengthening the Ability of Teacher Education Programs to Prepare Teacher Candidates to Integrate Technology

Teresa, S. Foulger; Mamta Shah; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis; Rohit Mehta; Irina Lyublinskaya; Debra Sprague

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2018 (Mar 26, 2018) pp. 2041–2046

In the new National Education Technology Plan from U.S. Department of Education Office of Educational Technology, a claim is made that school districts cannot consistently count on teacher educators to help new teachers develop their ability to...

Topics: faculty development, Technology Leadership, Technological, Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)

Fostering New Research following the Teacher Educator Technology Competencies (TETCs): Research from the JTATE Special Issue, Preparing All Teacher Educators to Support Teacher Candidates' Integration of Technology

Teresa S. Foulger; Kevin J. Graziano; Denise A. Schmidt-Crawford; David A. Slykhuis; Yeng L. Chang; Rhonda Christensen; Deborah R. Dillon; Marie K. Heath; Gerald Knezek; Daniel G. Krutka; Andrea H. Parrish; William A. Sadera; Amanda Thomas

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2020 (Apr 07, 2020) pp. 425–432

The National Educational Technology Plan claims that teacher educators are often not equipped to do their part to prepare teacher candidates to graduate as proficient users of technology for teaching and learning (U.S. Department of Education,...

Topics: faculty development, Technology Leadership