AN INVESTIGATION OF THE KNOWLEDGE BASE AND USE OF CONTENT INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES IN PRIMARY GRADES BY ELEMENTARY PRESERVICE TEACHERS.

The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate preservice teachers' self-reported knowledge and use of content instructional strategies while teaching in primary classrooms in Texas. This research study describes 33 subjects' responses regarding (a) awareness of content instructional strategies, (b) use of the content instructional strategies they identified, and (c) the strategies they thought were the most useful. It appears that these preservice teachers were familiar with a wide variety of strategies. Of the 40 instructional strategies listed by the preservice teachers, however, only nine different strategies were used by five or more preservice teachers in their classroom teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]