Journal of Technology & Teacher Education (JTATE)
Call for Manuscripts: Teacher Education and K-12 Virtual Schooling
Please consider submitting an article for the Fall 2008 theme issue of the Journal of Technology and Teacher Education. Submission deadline: May 1, 2008.
According to John Watson in his 2007 Keeping Pace report, at least 42 states have significant supplemental online learning programs at the K-12 level http://www.nacol.org/docs/KeepingPace07-color.pdf). In 2006-07, Florida Virtual School had over 100,000 course enrollments. Michigan recently became the first state to require students to have some sort of online learning experience prior to high school graduation. And, various states are beginning to develop an endorsement or certification for teaching K-12 online. Online education is quickly becoming one of the most important issues in US K-12 schools. Virtual classrooms are also increasingly international as evidenced by the renaming VHS to VHS International. In addition, distance education for young people has a longer history in other countries, including Australia and Norway, and those schools are evolving virtually too.
Much of the work in teacher education related to online learning has focused on online experiences of pre-service or in-service teacher education students. JTATE has published many influential articles on what it means to improve teacher education using online teaching and learning. Other studies have attempted to understand various technical and pedagogic skills learned by future and current teachers. Fewer research efforts have been directed at how to prepare future teachers for roles in K-12 online education.
JTATE seeks articles on Teacher Education and K-12 Virtual Schooling that address:
- Description of research-based models for preparing preservice or inservice teachers for K-12 online education
- Research-based studies on collaborations between teacher education programs and K-12 virtual schools
- Research-based studies on professional and or faculty development for virtual schooling
- Issues in the evaluation of preparing qualified online K-12 instructors
- Research-based studies on the experience of preservice or inservice teachers and/or related resources
- Research-based studies on the experience of Schools of Education faculty in working with virtual schools on teacher preparation
- Original theoretical perspectives to inform scholarship teacher education and K-12 virtual schooling
- Factors relating to success or failure in virtual schooling related to teacher education
- Other issues that address teacher education and K-12 virtual schooling
All submissions will go through the regular JTATE policy of blind review by experts in the area. Guest editors: Richard E. Ferdig (University of Florida) & Niki Davis (Iowa State University) Please follow the Author Guidelines available at: http://www.aace.org/pubs/entrance. Please submit manuscripts at the same location and designate “JTATE: TE & K-12 Special Issue” when you submit. Contact Dr. Rick Ferdig with questions (rferdig@ufl.edu).
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