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Bajaj, Preeti, Mrunal Suresh Patil, and Balaji Almale. "Microteaching in Medical Education." MVP Journal of Medical Sciences 1, no. 2 (July 1, 2014): 84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18311/mvpjms/2014/v1/i2/822.
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Medical teachers need training in pedagogic techniques in order to become better teachers. Despite the fact that our teaching techniques improve gradually over the years as we gain experience and also owing to continuous practice undertaken for different kinds of teaching learning situations; nevertheless educational technology has evolved ways and means for better development of teaching skills even at earlier stages by undertaking some methodical exercises, one of which is Microteaching. Microteaching, an innovative technique of teacher training, helps teachers to improve their teaching skills. It aims at development of competence in teaching skills through the practice of microteaching sessions1. In other words, it teaches teachers how to teach. This is especially important in cases of new faculty implying the budding teachers. Even an experienced teacher can benefit by this technique, particularly for learning some new skills1. The individual may be very sound in his/ her own subject but may not necessarily be a good teacher.
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Subramanian, A. "TEACHER EDUCATION FROM E-LEARNER TO E-TEACHER." International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH 5, no. 4(SE) (April 30, 2017): 25–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v5.i4(se).2017.1946.
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E-learning and e-teaching systems are involved in teachers professional activities and development in several ways (a) If e-learning/e-teaching is the technology which supports the process of teachers learning of university courses, the teacher is in the position of e-learner; (b) If e-learning/e-teaching is the content of the teachers university curricula in order to be applied in the teaching process, the teacher switches from the position of e learner to the one of e-teacher in blended or total e-learning systems. Systematic formal teacher education concerning e-learning/e-teaching implementation, and the structure of teachers ICT competencies and e-competencies, as well as the reasons for their occurrence, are considered. Teachers can be in a position of the creator of e-teaching process or the user of the e-teaching/e-learning attainment. Teachers need to re-think their underlying assumptions about teaching, about learning process, and, most fundamentally, about their role as educators. Teacher activities in e-teaching scenarios can be broken into two major tasks: providing the content for the students and supporting communication between students and tutors. Both tasks pose problems to teachers who are used to follow more traditional teaching methods so far. Therefore, modern teachers and e-teachers must be able to organize different types of e-learning and e-teaching scenarios. E-teaching requires a wide spectrum of e-roles. It is necessary for teachers in e-education environment to acquire sufficient knowledge about e-teaching and e-learning. e-learning can contribute to addressing each challenge by enhancing the preparation of new teachers, providing high quality and readily accessible professional development opportunities for active teachers, and making the teaching profession more attractive. The paper suggests that e-learning potential is a powerful tool for directing the teacher’s quality challenges and obtaining e-teaching competencies. E-learning for teachers must reflect the principles of effective teachers’ professional development.
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KOVAL, L. V. "ЦІННІСНІ ОРІЄНТИРИ ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ОСВІТИ: МЕТОДИЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ." Scientific papers of Berdiansk State Pedagogical University Series Pedagogical sciences 1, no. 2 (October 4, 2021): 239–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.31494/2412-9208-2021-1-2-239-246.
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The article highlights the values in the training of future primary school teachers, among which the priority is the formation of the spiritual sphere of applicants, the introduction of a humanistic paradigm of education, a motivated teacher with developed new pedagogical thinking, training of a teacher, ready to compete in today's labor market, able to work in the era of digital civilization. In addition, methodological aspects are singled out in this process, in particular co-teaching, which provides for: parallel teaching, in which tutors provide the same information, dividing applicants into two groups, which allows you to get more attention and the opportunity to ask more questions; distributed teaching, during which teachers distribute educational material and applicants, teaching their part first to one, and then to another group; alternative teaching, where one teacher teaches educational material for all students, and another – for those who need special attention; team teaching, based on which the training material is explained by both tutors, but in different ways. Such training should be considered effective ways to modernize vocational education. Key words: values оf vocational education, the globalization world, the era of digital civilization, a teacher motivated by change, teaching, a competent teacher.
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Cochran-Smith, Marilyn. "Teaching and Teacher Education." Educational Researcher 45, no. 2 (March 2016): 92–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0013189x16639040.
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Mpahla, Ntando, and Bulelwa Makena. "TEACHER EDUCATION FOR SINGLE-GRADE TEACHING DISQUALIFIES MULTI-GRADE TEACHING FOR RURAL EDUCATION." PUPIL: International Journal of Teaching, Education and Learning 6, no. 1 (April 7, 2022): 192–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.20319/pijtel.2022.61.192201.
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This paper examined the collision of teacher education for single-grade teacher classroom practices with multi-grade classroom teaching. Teachers educated for the normal situation of single-grade classroom teaching are not linked to the competencies required to practice and teach multi-grade classrooms. Of the current models of teacher education, none pays attention to the multi-grade teaching of rural education but only focuses on monograde classroom teaching. The paper used a qualitative research methodology. The researchers felt it vital to use a qualitative approach as the paper studies the life experiences of teachers in their natural and context-specific settings. Participants were selected through purposive sampling because of their common defining characteristics in the problem under study. Data collection came through semi-structured interviews and observation. When analysing data, a narrative analysis was used. The results of this paper indicated that the current crop of teachers in multi-grade schools does not possess the pedagogical knowledge required. This finding concludes that teachers have no specialised knowledge that would improve learner outcomes from the quality of teaching workforce and the quality of teaching.
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Nougaret, André A., Thomas E. Scruggs, and Margo A. Mastropieri. "Does Teacher Education Produce Better Special Education Teachers?" Exceptional Children 71, no. 3 (April 2005): 217–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001440290507100301.
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Twenty traditionally licensed first-year teachers and 20 first-year teachers with emergency provisional licensure were observed and evaluated by an experienced supervisor, unaware of licensure status, using a teacher rating scale with three subscales, based on a framework for teaching developed by Danielson (1996). The subscales included planning and preparation, classroom environment, and instruction. Teachers also completed self-ratings on a similar scale. Across all measures, traditionally licensed teachers were rated statistically significantly higher than were teachers holding emergency provisional licensure. Differences between the two groups were substantial, with effect sizes exceeding 1.5 standard deviation units. In sharp contrast, the two teacher groups did not rate themselves significantly different in teaching competence.
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Ballenger, Cynthia. "Teaching and Practice." Harvard Educational Review 62, no. 2 (July 1, 1992): 199–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.62.2.n8232u2300765186.
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Teachers often learn techniques to manage the behaviors of the children in their classrooms with the assumption that those techniques are universal, rather than culturally based. In this article,Cynthia Ballenger shares her process of coming to understand the cultural assumptions that lie at the heart of effectively managing her class of four-year-old Haitian children. Through multiple"conversations" with a teacher-researcher group, with Haitian teachers and parents in a daycare center, and through her work with Haitian teachers in a child development class, Ballenger learns about Haitian cultural ways and queries the assumptions that shape her own experience as a North American teacher. Her story demonstrates a model of teacher reflection on both theory and practice that can illuminate the practices of other teachers who encounter children of differing cultural, racial, or class backgrounds.
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MUTLU, Fırat, and Hasan BEYSUN. "TEACHER'S OPINIONS ON EXPERT TEACHER EDUCATION." SOCIAL SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL 8, no. 35 (January 15, 2023): 63–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.31567/ssd.806.
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Career planning and implementation of the teaching profession is a long-debated issue. The Ministry of National Education published the Regulation on Candidate Teaching and Teaching Career Steps on 12 May 2022. Teaching career steps in the relevant regulation; candidate teacher, teacher, specialist teacher and head teacher. In addition to the basis of different years of service for each career step, professional studies to be completed, training videos to be watched and success conditions in the central exam are determined. In the published regulation, 180 hours of training videos are watched for Specialization Teaching, while this period is 240 hours for head teachers. The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of expert teacher candidates about 180 hours of Expert Teacher Training Videos. The case study design, which is one of the qualitative research designs, was used in the research. The sample of the study consists of expert teacher candidates working in public schools in Diyarbakır. In this study, in which criterion sampling, one of the purposeful sampling types, was used, semi-structured interview form was used as the data collection tool, while descriptive analysis was used in the analysis of the data. From the findings, it was seen that the teachers expressed negative opinions about the adequacy of expert teacher training and the professional and individual development of the trainings. While it was seen that the participants found the presentation materials presented in the trainings sufficient, it was seen that they had positive opinions about the academicians who made the presentations. While it was seen that there was a consensus on online education, it was seen that information technologies were dominant in the views on improving education. While it was seen that all participants had negative opinions about compulsory education, it was seen that there were different opinions about 180 hours of education.
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Basturkmen, Helen. "ESP teacher education needs." Language Teaching 52, no. 3 (December 13, 2017): 318–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261444817000398.
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Teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) and for specific purposes (ESP) are demanding areas in which to work. Teaching in these areas typically includes a range of tasks, such as investigating learner needs and specialist discourse, developing courses and materials in addition to classroom teaching. Therefore, teachers face a range of tasks which often require additional knowledge and skills. To date, the literature in EAP and ESP has tended to foreground the needs of learners and background the learning and knowledge needs of teachers. This plenary reviews themes in the literature on teacher education in ESP and reports on two research studies that investigated the practices and perspectives of experienced ESP and EAP teachers. Findings from the studies are discussed in relation to teacher education needs in this field.
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Kleinsasser, Robert C. "Teacher efficacy in Teaching and Teacher Education." Teaching and Teacher Education 44 (November 2014): 168–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2014.07.007.
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Carneiro, Rosalvo Nobre. "Contemporary challenges of teaching education." Terrae Didatica 15 (September 17, 2019): e019035. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/td.v15i0.8655111.
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In the public space of the theoretical renewed discourses, the geographic knowledge expands itself from the university world for the school world, with criticism as a key word of the teacher education. Thus, the objective of this paper is to discuss the challenges of teacher education, particularly the one of the teacher of Geography, based on the concepts of communicative competence and universal ethical principles, from the theory of communicative action of Jürgen Habermas. It started from our experience as a professor in Geography College, when questioning the reason for the low participation of undergraduates in establishing a dialogue or an argumentative discourse in the classroom. From the literature review, we identified the current predominant themes in geographic education on the education of teachers in Geography. It was observed the domain of the themes: researcher teacher and citizenship. An understanding of professional and human formal education is defended, associated to the action, around universal ethical principles of geographic base.
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Altbach, Philip G. "Teaching: International Concerns." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 88, no. 3 (March 1987): 326–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146818708800314.
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Offering a comparative perspective, Altbach looks at the prestige accorded European secondary school teachers, the undereducated third world teaching force, the seeming lack of relation between teacher education and different levels of international achievement, and current teacher reforms in Japan and Russia.
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Kennelly, Julie, Neil Taylor, Tom Maxwell, and Pep Serow. "Education for Sustainability and Pre-Service Teacher Education." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 28, no. 1 (July 2012): 57–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aee.2012.9.
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AbstractAspects of environment are common topics in Australian primary schools. However Education for Sustainability (EfS), where students actively investigate the underlying causes of unsustainable practices and actively plan for and instigate change, is less well understood and less commonly practised. It cannot be assumed that pre-service teachers have the knowledge, skills and desire to incorporate EfS, as advocated in Australian policies, into their repertoires of practice, or, that they will acquire those skills as they gain teaching experience. Therefore for EfS to become an integral component of the primary school experience, carefully planned rather than ad hoc preparation for EfS is necessary in pre-service teacher education.This essentially qualitative study describes how a one-semester, final year pre-service primary teacher unit in EfS was shaped, and reports on how a cohort of pre-service teachers responded, particularly in terms of how well prepared they felt to engage with EfS in future teaching. Although motivation and confidence to engage with EfS varied across the cohort, pre-service teacher education appeared to make a positive contribution to both. In a longitudinal design, five teachers who had participated in the EfS unit became the focus of individual case studies early in their teaching careers. Each case study investigated ways in which the beginning teacher engaged with EfS, linking teaching decisions to pre-service teacher education. The constructivist approach adopted by the tutors was particularly valued by the early career teachers. They appreciated various modes of experiential learning including engagement with the kinds of teaching strategies advocated in EfS and a strong orientation to the curriculum requirements of primary school.However, the extent to which each early career teacher implemented EfS was tempered not only by personal skill and motivation, but also by work situations which did not necessarily support EfS endeavours. While pre-service teacher education has a vital role in the promulgation of EfS in schools, and this study shows that it can be effective in advancing the desires of beginning teachers to do something for the environment, there are broad implications for the institutions that so heavily impact on the capacity of school systems and university systems to act in EfS.
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Söderström, Tor. "Teaching Online." International Journal of Cyber Ethics in Education 1, no. 4 (October 2011): 10–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcee.2011100102.
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This article examines adult online education by investigating the complex relationship between technology and community. The aim was to explore online teaching in relation to the handbook dilemma teachers meet in their teacher profession by focusing on participation and sharing opportunities. This study analysed several handbooks that aim to help teachers design and implement online education. The advice in the handbooks was contrasted against two empirical cases. Specifically, the study examined how two cases – online adult education courses and special needs teacher training courses – implemented online education with respect to participation and sharing. The analysis suggests that pedagogy is the crucial point and a planned pedagogy is absolutely necessary for designing and implementing effective online education, education that encourages participation and sharing. The findings showed that some handbooks offer meaningful guidance regarding the development of online education, but other publications were not helpful which creates a dilemma for teachers.
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Fořtová, Nicola, Jitka Sedláčková, and František Tůma. ""And My Screen Wouldn't Share": Student-Teachers' Perceptions of ICT in Online Teaching Practice and Online Teaching." Íkala 26, no. 3 (September 10, 2021): 513–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala/v26n3a03.
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The sudden switch to online teaching enforced by the covid-19 pandemic has impacted teacher education at universities, particularly micro-teachings and teaching practice, as technology has become an inherent part of these processes. The growing body of literature on online teaching and teacher education during lockdown conditions mainly addresses challenges in teacher education and educator perceptions. However, very few studies deal with the perceptions of student- teachers. To fill this gap, a group of teacher educators conducted a research study with 63 students enrolled in a master’s Degree in Teaching efl for Secondary Schools offered at Masaryk University, Czechia. To carry it out, qualitative coding procedures were employed on a dataset of 120 lesson reflections written by students completing their teaching practice via online courses which were ordinarily conducted in person. The purpose was to find out how student-teachers perceived technology use when teaching online. The main findings show that, despite constant comparison between the face-to-face and online classrooms and an initial reliance on the success of technology to determine a lesson’s success, the majority of student-teachers normalized technology as a platform for teaching, using technology-specific language for teaching strategies and classroom events. These findings suggest that online teaching and learning should be seen as an integral part of teacher education.
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Fořtová, Nicola, Jitka Sedláčková, and František Tůma. ""And My Screen Wouldn't Share": Student-Teachers' Perceptions of ICT in Online Teaching Practice and Online Teaching." Íkala 26, no. 3 (September 10, 2021): 513–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.v26n3a03.
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The sudden switch to online teaching enforced by the covid-19 pandemic has impacted teacher education at universities, particularly micro-teachings and teaching practice, as technology has become an inherent part of these processes. The growing body of literature on online teaching and teacher education during lockdown conditions mainly addresses challenges in teacher education and educator perceptions. However, very few studies deal with the perceptions of student- teachers. To fill this gap, a group of teacher educators conducted a research study with 63 students enrolled in a master’s Degree in Teaching efl for Secondary Schools offered at Masaryk University, Czechia. To carry it out, qualitative coding procedures were employed on a dataset of 120 lesson reflections written by students completing their teaching practice via online courses which were ordinarily conducted in person. The purpose was to find out how student-teachers perceived technology use when teaching online. The main findings show that, despite constant comparison between the face-to-face and online classrooms and an initial reliance on the success of technology to determine a lesson’s success, the majority of student-teachers normalized technology as a platform for teaching, using technology-specific language for teaching strategies and classroom events. These findings suggest that online teaching and learning should be seen as an integral part of teacher education.
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Ntim, Stephen Kwabena. "Transforming Teaching and Learning for Quality Teacher Education in Ghana: Perspectives from Selected Teacher Trainees and Stakeholders in Teacher Education." International Journal of Education 9, no. 3 (September 27, 2017): 149. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ije.v9i3.11686.
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This survey measured the perspectives of teacher trainees, classrooms teachers and stakeholders in teacher education regarding factors that could enhance teaching and quality teacher education in Ghana. Findings from the survey indicate that teachers’ content knowledge was considered appreciable, but more emphasis needed to be paid to cultivating critical and inquiry skills among Ghanaian teachers. Additionally, efforts were to be made in teacher education towards a more constructivists approach to teaching, with focus on student-centered teaching and attention to student diversity, as well as enhancing teacher professional development, especially in the area of academic research. Implications for policy and practice suggested among others, are that teacher education in Ghana needs a more professional development that is both data-based and standard driven, as well as collaboratively developed, as criteria to assess teacher quality and possible certification.
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Crandall, JoAnn (Jodi). "LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION." Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 20 (January 2000): 34–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0267190500200032.
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Language teacher education programs are likely to be housed in departments of applied linguistics, education, or languages and literature: These three disciplines provide the knowledge base and opportunities for developing skills and dispositions for both prospective and experienced teachers. Until recently, applied linguistics (psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, language description, and language teaching and testing methodology) formed the core of language teacher education, not unexpected, since language teaching has historically been the primary focus of applied linguistics (Bardovi-Harlig and Hartford 1997, Crandall 1995; 1996). However, during the last decade, general educational theory and practice have exerted a much more powerful influence on the direction of the education of both preservice and inservice language teacher education, resulting in a greater focus on: 1) practical experiences such as observations, practice teaching, and opportunities for curriculum and materials development (Crandall 1994, Johnson 1996b, Pennington 1990, Richards 1990, Richards and Crookes 1988); 2) classroom-centered or teacher research (Allwright and Bailey 1991, Chaudron 1988, Edge and Richards 1993, Nunan 1989, van Lier 1988); and 3) teacher beliefs and teacher cognition in language teacher education (Freeman 1996; 1998, Freeman and Johnson 1998a, Richards and Nunan 1990). In fact, the last decade can be viewed as a search for a theory of language teaching and, by extension, of language teacher education at both the micro and macro levels (Freeman and Johnson 1998b, Johnson 1996a, Larsen-Freeman 1990, Richards 1990). Language teacher education is a microcosm of teacher education, and many of the trends in current language teacher education derive from theory and practice in general teacher education. These trends include at least four major shifts.
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Zeichner, Kenneth, and Daniel Liston. "Teaching Student Teachers to Reflect." Harvard Educational Review 57, no. 1 (April 1, 1987): 23–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.57.1.j18v7162275t1w3w.
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Conventional teacher education programs follow an apprenticeship model and, in so doing,aspire to provide student teachers with pedagogical skills and techniques derived from a preexisting body of knowledge. In this contribution to HER's special series, "Teachers, Teaching,and Teacher Education," Kenneth M. Zeichner and Daniel P. Liston argue that the conventional approach inhibits the self-directed growth of student teachers and thereby fails to promote their full professional development. Illustrating an alternative model, the authors describe and assess the elementary student teaching program at the University of Wisconsin,Madison — a program oriented toward the goals of reflective teaching, greater teacher autonomy,and increasing democratic participation in systems of educational governance.
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Feng, Li, and Tim R. Sass. "Teacher Quality and Teacher Mobility." Education Finance and Policy 12, no. 3 (July 2017): 396–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00214.
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There is growing concern among policy makers over the quality of the teacher workforce in general, and the distribution of effective teachers across schools. The impact of teacher attrition on overall teacher quality will depend on the effectiveness of teachers who leave the profession. Likewise, teacher turnover may alleviate or worsen inequities in the distribution of teachers, depending on which teachers change schools or leave teaching and who replaces them. Using matched student–teacher panel data from the state of Florida, we examine teacher mobility across the distribution of effectiveness (as measured by teacher value added). We find that top-quartile and bottom-quartile teachers exit at a higher rate than do average-quality teachers. Additionally, as the share of peer teachers with more experience, advanced degrees, or professional certification increases, the likelihood of moving within-district decreases. We also find some evidence of assortative matching among teachers—more productive reading/language arts teachers are more likely to stay in teaching if they have more productive peer teachers.
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Hunter, Collin, John Elliot, Elliot Marland, and Eileen Eileen. "Teacher Education and Teaching Qualit." British Journal of Sociology of Education 6, no. 1 (March 1985): 97–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0142569850060107.
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Ryan, Kevin. "On Teaching Graduate Teacher Education." Teaching Education 1, no. 1 (February 1987): 60–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1047621870010115.
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Wang, Jian, Emily Lin, Elizabeth Spalding, Cari L. Klecka, and Sandra J. Odell. "Quality Teaching and Teacher Education." Journal of Teacher Education 62, no. 4 (September 2011): 331–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022487111409551.
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Mousley, Judith. "Bringing teaching to teacher education." Mathematics Education Research Journal 11, no. 2 (September 1999): 149–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf03217067.
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Haddix, Marcelle M. "Diversifying Teaching and Teacher Education." Journal of Literacy Research 49, no. 1 (January 4, 2017): 141–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086296x16683422.
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Downing, Jillian. "VET teaching and teacher education." International Journal of Training Research 15, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14480220.2017.1358893.
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Calderhead, James. "Reflective teaching and teacher education." Teaching and Teacher Education 5, no. 1 (January 1989): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0742-051x(89)90018-8.
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Wilson, Alina, Laura Sokal, and Deb Woloshyn. "(Re)-Defining ‘Teacher’: Preservice Teachers with Disabilities in Canadian Teacher Education Programs." Australasian Journal of Special and Inclusive Education 42, no. 01 (April 18, 2018): 17–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jsi.2018.2.
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Directors of Student Teaching from the Western Canadian provinces participated in focus groups about the realities and decision-making processes around practicum for preservice teachers with disabilities. Results showed current standards, when applied rigidly, served to reify a static, homogenous, and unrealistic definition of ‘teacher’ that marginalises preservice teachers with disabilities. However, the effort of directors to challenge this notion of ‘teacher’, framed within the constructionist model of disability, gives hope for a more inclusive future teaching force.
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Ching, Chin Phoi, and Chin Peng Yee. "Primary Teacher Education In Malaysia." Journal of International Education Research (JIER) 8, no. 4 (September 20, 2012): 373–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/jier.v8i4.7285.
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In Malaysia the training of primary school teachers is solely carried out by teacher training institutes which offer the Bachelor of Teaching with Honors (Primary education) program and was first launched in 2007. This program prepares primary school teachers specializing in various subjects or major and is carried out in 27 teacher training institutes. The main aim of this program is to produce quality primary school teachers in terms of knowledge, skills and professional competencies in their respective subjects and in line with the National Philosophy of Education. After a span of five years, has this Bachelor of Teaching program achieve its learning outcomes outlined? Thus this study intends to evaluate this primary teacher education program by focusing on the achievement of learning outcomes (LO) of this four years program. The sample involved in this study is a group of 106 final year student teachers who have completed their 8th semester of study. A questionnaire was administered to check the extent of the learning outcomes being achieved. This questionnaire was developed based on the eight main learning outcomes of this Bachelor of Teaching program. The question items were written individually by referring to the sub outcomes of each main LO. Thus this studys main objectives are to find out to what extent the overall LO was achieved and also to determine the importance of each LO. The results would serve as guidelines for the teaching staff to further improve their teaching practices and guidance given to students in the future.
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Stobaugh, Rebecca, and Kimberlee Everson. "Student Teacher Engagement in Co-Teaching Strategies." Educational Renaissance 8, no. 1 (February 27, 2020): 30–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33499/edren.v8i1.137.
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Recently there has been increasing emphasis on co-teaching experiences for teacher candidates. Despite the significance of collaboration between cooperating teachers and student teachers, limited empirical attention has focused on student teachers' co-teaching experiences. The following study utilized survey data to ascertain if student teachers' use of different co-teaching strategies changed over the course of their student teaching semester, as well as, compared student teacher use of co-teaching strategies in elementary, middle, and secondary program areas. Pilot Study Survey data revealed that approximately one-fourth of the student teacher's time is spent teaching alone. However, the Student Teacher Survey data indicated that the Team Teaching co-teaching strategy increased more than any other co-teaching strategy in all program areas. The study concludes that as teacher education programs seek to maximize the benefits of the co-teaching model, student teachers and cooperating teachers need additional training in ways to utilize all the co-teaching strategies to maximize student learning.
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Gholami, Javad, and Isa Qurbanzada. "Key Stakeholders’ Attitudes towards Teacher Education Programs in TEFL: A Case Study of Farhangian University in Iran." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 18, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 5–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/jtes-2016-0011.
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Abstract Recently, teacher training courses have attracted the researchers’ special attention, while teacher education programs have not received as much attention. The present study investigated the attitudes key stakeholders in a teacher education program (i.e., student teachers, in-service teachers, and teacher educators) hold toward the appropriateness of TEFL teacher education programs at an Iranian teacher education university and their relevance to and sustainable impact in the real teaching context. To this end, 62 pre-service teachers, 48 in-service teachers, and 28 teacher educators filled out the Foreign Language Teacher Education Program Evaluation questionnaire adapted from Peacock (2009). The results of ANOVA tests indicated that the pre-service teachers and teacher educators found courses with literary strands less relevant to English language teaching and believed that those courses should be modified or replaced by teaching more knowledge-building or knowledge-applying subjects. In addition, the in-service teachers harboured a negative perspective towards the courses which were not practical in the real classroom setting and considered them less empowering. All three groups found teaching-related courses, such as teaching methodology, of more sustainable nature and useful in the real teaching context. Besides, the participants believed that it is essential for the universities to incorporate several practical courses including practicum and classroom observations within the curriculum. This study suggests that accommodating key stakeholders’ preferences in a teacher education programs could lead to crafting more accountable and empowering teacher education programs.
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Fauzan, Fauzan, and Bahrissalim Bahrissalim. "CURRICULUM ANALYSIS TEACHER PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION PROGRAM (PPG) OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION IN INDONESIA." TARBIYA: Journal of Education in Muslim Society 4, no. 2 (December 19, 2017): 148–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/tjems.v4i2.6400.
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Abstract The existence of Professional Teacher Education program (PPG) becomes a demand after the Law of Teachers and Lecturers (UU G-D) requires professional teachers to have an educator certificates. Professional education contains practical activities of applying academic educational ability in professional activities of teachers in schools along with systematic supervision mechanisms and in a relatively adequate time (at least one year or two semesters). The substance of the Teacher Professional program curriculum rests on the accommodation of teachers' competence, pedagogic, professional, personal, and social. The demands of the teacher's competence spawned several offers of learning expenses that became a person's reinforcement to become a professional teacher, whether related to the content of teaching materials or the strengthening of teaching skills. The structure of the PPG program curriculum contains workshops on learning tool development, teaching exercises through micro teaching- learning, peer learning, and field experience programs (PPL), and pedagogy enrichment programs. Abstrak Keberadaan Program Profesi Guru (PPG) menjadi tuntutan setelah UU G-D mempersyaratkan guru profesional memiliki sertifikat pendidik. Pendidikan profesi berisi kegiatan praktik menerapkan kemampuan akademik kependidikan dalam kegiatan profesional guru di sekolah disertai mekanisme pembimbingan dan supervisi yang sistematis dan dalam waktu yang relatif memadai (sekurang-kurangnya satu tahun atau dua semester). Substansi kurikulum Program Profesi Guru (PPG) bersandar pada akomodasi tuntutan kompetensi guru, yakni pedagogik, professional, personal, dan sosial. Tuntutan kompetensi guru tersebut melahirkan beberapa tawaran beban belajar yang menjadi penguat seseorang menjadi guru professional, apakah terkait dengan konten materi ajar atau penguatan teaching skill. Struktur kurikulum program PPG berisi lokakarya pengembangan perangkat pembelajaran, latihan mengajar melalui pembelajaran mikro, pembelajaran pada teman sejawat, dan program pengalaman lapangan (PPL), dan program pengayaan bidang studi dan/atau pedagogi. How to Cite : Fauzan., Bahrissalim. (2017). Curriculum Analysis Teacher Professional Education Program (PPG) of Islamic Education in Indonesia. TARBIYA: Journal of Education in Muslim Society, 4(2), 148-161. doi:10.15408/tjems.v4i2.6400. Permalink/DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15408/tjems.v4i2.6400
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Selçuk, Merve, and Ece Genç Yöntem. "Beyond Practicum: Interplay between Prospective EFL Teachers’ Conceptualizations of Field Experience and Teaching Career." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.1p.154.
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Becoming a teacher of English language requires both knowledge of theory and practice. Teacher candidates at the faculties of education in BA programs in Turkey practice teaching through observing real classrooms and doing micro-teachings in real schools during their four-year teacher training. This study was conducted at a foundation university in Turkey, in which senior pre-service teachers, before they enter the teaching profession and become novice teachers, go and experience teaching to fulfill the requirements of the practicum (school experience course) in their last semester. This course requires them to observe three different levels of classroom in real schools, write reflective papers, prepare lesson plans and practice teaching. The transition from pre-service to novice teacher can be facilitated via successful practicum programs offered by the faculties of education in Turkey. The impact of practicum tends to result in either entry into teaching or teacher retention. The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the effects of this program on students’ decisions on entry into the profession. The data were collected in two stages: Before and after the practicum. At the beginning of the last semester, before they go practicum, five pre-service EFL teachers were asked the reasons for choosing teacher education programs, and their concerns related to practicum and the profession through an in-depth semi-controlled interview. Those pre-service teachers were also interviewed on the same topics at the end of the semester, after practicum. Results indicated that practicum or school experience has contributed positively to their perceptions regarding their entry into teaching because almost all of them wanted to enter teaching at the end of the program, and they are in-service teachers now. These findings suggest that teacher education courses should aim to develop students’ practical knowledge, and the relationship among the mentor teacher, the supervisor, and the student teacher should be valued and supported more in teacher education programs.
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Ferizat, Mizambayeva, and Baimyrzayev Kuat. "The effectiveness of interactive teaching methods in the professional training of pre-service geography teachers." Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences 16, no. 4 (August 31, 2021): 1976–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/cjes.v16i4.6066.
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The pre-service training of competent geography teachers requires searching for effective teaching methods to increase their professional competence. The study aims to determine the effectiveness of interactive teaching methods for teaching geography during the pre-service teacher training. The ideas of transactional analysis and interactionism underlay the interactive teacher training of 260 students from Kazakh universities. The survey revealed interactive teaching methods positively influence the readiness of pre-service teachers to enhance their professional competence. This research confirms the importance of using interactive teaching methods to promote students’ engagement and cooperation during the pre-service teacher training.
Keywords: pre-service teacher training; professional competence; pre-service geography teacher; interactive teaching methods; methods for teaching geography;
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Thomas, Matthew A. M., and Elisabeth E. Lefebvre. "Teaching Synchronous-Service Teachers: Traditional Teacher Education at a Crossroads." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 122, no. 7 (July 2020): 1–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146812012200707.
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Background/Context Teachers enrolled in alternative training and licensure programs may have experiences that lie outside what is considered typical for both preservice teachers and in-service teachers. This article explores the experiences of a growing cadre of “synchronous-service teachers”—including, but not limited to, Teach For America (TFA) corps members— who are teaching full time while also completing coursework in teacher preparation programs. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of the Study This study considers how synchronous-service teachers perceived the education and training they received while enrolled in traditional teacher education coursework, as well as how they interpreted their broader interactions with the teaching profession and teacher education writ large. Research Setting and Participants This research was conducted in the Midwestern United States in a major metropolitan area with a TFA regional presence. Thirty-six corps members who completed coursework at a traditional teacher education institution opted to participate in this study. They were primarily White and female, and most entered TFA immediately following completion of their undergraduate degrees. The majority had little previous exposure to the education discipline. Research Design The thirty-six corps members were interviewed about their experiences while participating in TFA, teaching at their schools, and, especially pertinent to this article, learning at a partner university where TFA corps members in the region completed teacher education coursework. Findings/Results The findings suggest that corps members held primarily negative views about the teacher education coursework they experienced. They complained that the teacher education programming failed to provide immediately applicable insights and lacked rigor and relevance. Yet they also maintained paradoxical expectations about what teacher education, particularly for synchronous-service teachers, should or should not entail. Conclusions/Recommendations The article concludes by suggesting the potential utility of synchronous-service teachers as a conceptual category, noting that these teachers should be considered distinct from others. As such, providing synchronous-service teachers with teacher education programming designed for either preservice or in-service teachers may lead to missed opportunities in terms of professional learning and exacerbate negative sentiments about teacher education. The experiences and opinions of synchronous-service teachers can have considerable significance, particularly when these teachers go on to affect education leadership and policy. In sum, teacher education institutions are at a critical crossroads concerning how and whether to proceed with similar partnerships, especially as alternative recruitment and training programs continue to grow in the United States and beyond.
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Daniels, Emily A. "A Review of “Diversity and Education: Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education”." Educational Studies 46, no. 4 (July 28, 2010): 438–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00131946.2010.496350.
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Tatar, Nilgün. "PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' BELIEFS ABOUT THE IMAGE OF A SCIENCE TEACHER AND SCIENCE TEACHING." Journal of Baltic Science Education 14, no. 1 (February 20, 2015): 34–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/jbse/15.14.34.
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This study examines pre-service teachers’ beliefs about the images of a science teacher and the science teaching. Besides, how their beliefs are affected from inquiry-based teaching is investigated. Case study method was used. Pre-service teachers had learned science with inquiry and how they teach science with inquiry in the science laboratory. Data were collected through the drawings and semi-structured interviews. Results indicate that most participants had teacher-centered and conceptual belief about the images of a science teacher and the science teaching at the beginning of the study. However, they had student-centered belief at the end of the study. It was remarked that three pre-service teachers who held different beliefs about student/teacher roles and the teaching of science before the study, had some common beliefs after the inquiry-based science laboratory. Based on the results, it can be said that inquiry-based science teaching positively affects pre-service teachers’ beliefs about the images of a science teacher and the science teaching. Key words: belief about teaching, inquiry-based teaching, mental image, pre-service teachers’ education.
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Pecivova, Veronika. "Preventing reality shock in future pre-school and primary school teachers." New Trends and Issues Proceedings on Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 8 (January 10, 2018): 171–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/prosoc.v4i8.3028.
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Reality shock in pre-school and primary school teachers is a significant factor affecting beginning of careers of novice teachers. The purpose of the project of Ministry of Education Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic called ‘Preventing reality shock in future preschool and primary school teaches at the beginning of their career’is to prepare students of preschool and primary teacher education for the beginning of their teaching career and thus prevent reality shock once they become service teachers. One of the focuses of studies presented in the project covers topics related to health problems of children teachers will possibly have to cope with in their classes. The aim is to provide teacher education students with information, which can help them in their teaching practice. Setting relationship between health issues and education is important, as it raises awareness of possible impacts certain health conditions of children may have on their education. We want to focus on the problem from the perspective of teacher training. Keywords: Reality shock, preschool teacher education students, primary teacher education students, health conditions.
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Boylan, Colin. "Practice Teaching in a Distance Education Centre." Australian and International Journal of Rural Education 6, no. 1 (March 1, 1996): 37–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v6i1.406.
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Practice teaching is an integtal component of pre-service teacher education courses. Watson, Halton, Grundy and Squires (1986) clearly demonstrated that most New South Wales teacher education students came from metropolitan backgtounds, received their university tuition in a city based institution and completed their practice teaching in city schools. However, Watson, et al (1986) claimed that most of the city trained teachers were reluctant to accept a teaching appointment outside of the city. Under these conditions, long term solutions to the problem of high rural teacher turnover were unlikely to eventuate.
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Howard, Jessica. "Teachers and Teaching: On Teaching, Knowledge, and "Middle Ground"." Harvard Educational Review 59, no. 2 (July 1, 1989): 226–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.59.2.l341028l2v675t46.
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Teachers often feel poised between dynamic forces in the classroom as they struggle to meet the needs of both individual students and the group, to promote children's self-knowledge as well as their knowledge of the curriculum. Here Jessica Howard, a teacher at the Prospect School,a private elementary school in rural Vermont, re-examines this dialectic. She describes how she,as a teacher, creates the "middle ground," a time and place that pulls together the disparate elements of classroom life, where children can make new and richer sense of themselves and the world.
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Peculea, Lorena. "THE METAPHORICAL PERCEPTIONS OF PROSPECTIVE ENGINEERING TEACHERS TOWARDS THE “EDUCATION”, “TEACHER” AND “TEACHING” CONCEPTS." Journal Plus Education 18, no. 2/2017 (November 8, 2017): 95–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.24250/jpe/2/2017/lp2.
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Samuelsson, Marcus, and Joakim Samuelsson. "PROFICIENT CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT THROUGH FOCUSED MATHEMATIC TEACHING." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 75, no. 6 (December 15, 2017): 634–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/17.75.634.
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A not entirely unusual position among teachers is that they believe that they must first establish a peaceful classroom before they can begin to teach the subject. This research, shows how a proficient mathematics teacher teaches his subject and thereby creates a quiet and focused classroom and exerts effective leadership, just by teaching mathematics. The researchers observed a male mathematics teacher for almost half a year, i.e. one semester. The results of research present several patterns that the researchers saw during the observations of his teaching. The teacher showed an interest in each student’s mathematical thinking and expressed explicitly how students were expected to learn mathematics. He also directed students’ attention to mathematics and established a culture where all solutions were important in the teaching process. In the teaching process, he used multiple representations to motivate students and a lot of supportive expressions that made them feel that they were able to learn mathematics. He worked patiently to establish structures, and there was almost no disruptive behaviour. Students simply did not have time to interfere because they were so engaged in learning mathematics. Keywords: classroom management, mathematics teaching, proficient teacher.
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Napoles, Jessica, and Rebecca B. MacLeod. "The Influences of Teacher Delivery and Student Progress on Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of Teaching Effectiveness." Journal of Research in Music Education 61, no. 3 (August 20, 2013): 249–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0022429413497234.
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The purpose of this study was to examine how teacher delivery and student progress influenced preservice teachers’ perceptions of overall teaching effectiveness. Experienced teachers ( n = 6) were videotaped teaching mini applied lessons under four conditions: (a) high teacher delivery and more student progress, (b) high teacher delivery and less student progress, (c) low teacher delivery and more student progress, and (d) low teacher delivery and less student progress. Preservice teachers ( n = 75) viewed these teaching excerpts and rated each for teacher delivery, student progress, student musicianship, teacher knowledge of subject matter, and overall teaching effectiveness. Participants rated teachers with high delivery as more effective than teachers with low delivery, irrespective of student progress. There was a moderate positive correlation ( r = .53) between perceptions of teacher delivery and student progress. Results of a multiple regression analysis revealed that teacher delivery was the best predictor of perceptions of overall teaching effectiveness, followed closely by student progress.
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Kromidha, Esmeralda, and Elida Tabaku. "IMPROVEMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHER EDUCATION IN ALBANIA." Problems of Education in the 21st Century 38, no. 1 (December 20, 2011): 50–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.33225/pec/11.38.50.
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Foreign language teaching has been the subject of many changes in Albania in response to the social and economic changes that have taken place in the country and in Europe. The foreign language teacher should be able to teach communicative language and intercultural education. This asks for teachers who work to develop professionally by applying active teaching and learning strategies. Teacher education is the basis for this radical change demanded from the teachers. University of Tirana is working to meet this challenge. Based on the problems experienced, beliefs and attitudes future teachers share, new Master Courses on Teacher Education have been designed and applied in the last two years. They aim at improving teachers’ language and teaching skills by having a balanced proportion of content and pedagogical subjects, teaching practice and research. A well designed curriculum is seen as crucial to teacher education. A survey has been conducted on the outcome of the new curricula of Teacher education. The main focus has been to make our foreign language teaching and learning comparable to that of the region by keeping to the standards of European Common Framework of Modern Languages. Key words: key word, key word, key word, key word.
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LIEFSHITZ, IRENE A. "The Learning of Teaching: A Portrait Composed of Teacher Voices." Harvard Educational Review 90, no. 3 (September 1, 2020): 349–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-90.3.349.
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In this portrait, Irene Liefshitz considers learning as an aspect of teaching—how teachers learn to teach, what they learn about teaching, and how they are transformed by teaching. Because unsolicited, free-ranging, teacher-to-teacher conversation about teaching rarely makes it to education research, the author analyzes conversations between teachers recorded for the StoryCorps National Teachers Initiative to inquire how teachers talk about learning and what they say about it when no researcher is guiding their conversation. Such centering of teacher voice is a practical and political stance and positions education research as an act of listening. By transmitting and interpreting teachers’ talk, the author makes a case for focusing research agendas on teacher learning based on what teachers say is important to them, for promoting a scholarship of voice in research on teaching, and for further use of the StoryCorps National Teachers Initiative as a rich data source of teacher voice.
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Naeem, Mehek, Fariha Gul, Zaheer Asghar, and Naeem Zafar. "Human Rights Education in Pre-Service Teacher Education – Pakistan." UMT Education Review 02, no. 01 (May 2019): 39–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/uer.21.03.
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As per international obligations, Human Rights Education (HRE) should be imparted to all. In Pakistan, teacher training institutes and Bachelors in Education (BEd) programs provide a platform for promoting and ensuring the teaching of human rights to prospective teachers. Hence, the purpose of this study was to assess the extent of the transfer of knowledge about human rights to pre-service teachers during their BEd courses. A case study approach was used in qualitative paradigm to study the BEd programs of three education universities in Lahore, Pakistan. The study used document analysis and survey with pre-service teachers for the collection of data. Content analysis was used to analyze the scheme of studies given by the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan and the subsequent curricula used by the universities under study. A survey was conducted with 150 pre-service teachers in order to determine their overall knowledge, attitudes and practices as prospective teachers towards the teaching of human rights. The results revealed that an overall positive attitude towards teaching and learning of HRE was found among the respondents of the study. However, no specific module, course or topics in a course focused on HRE in the curricula. The study reflects the need of integration of HRE in teacher training curriculum and recommends that HRE should be a mandatory part of teacher education curricula.
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Rots, Isabel, and Antonia Aelterman. "Two Profiles of Teacher Education Graduates: A Discriminant Analysis of Teaching Commitment." European Educational Research Journal 7, no. 4 (January 1, 2008): 523–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/eerj.2008.7.4.523.
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Although several studies have confirmed the importance of teaching commitment for beginning teachers' retention in the profession, research on the factors that enhance the teaching commitment of teacher education graduates is scarce. The purpose of the current study is thus to identify the predicting factors that distinguish teacher education graduates with a low level from those with a high level of teaching commitment. Four categories of predicting variables were distinguished: (1) personal characteristics (sex, personality); (2) initial motivation for teaching; (3) teacher education (type of teacher training, graduation degree, preparedness for teaching, faculty support and mentor support); and (4) integration into teaching (teacher efficacy and professional orientation). The results suggest that graduates with a low level of teaching commitment can be reliably distinguished from graduates with a high level of commitment by the personality factor ‘conscientiousness’, the type of teacher training, their initial motivation for teaching, their views of their teacher education (in terms of preparation for teaching, faculty support and mentor support) and their teacher efficacy. As such, the findings of this study have important implications for teacher education since the results confirm the importance of teacher education for the teaching commitment of graduates.
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Kokkinos, Theodoros. "Aspects of differentiation in teacher education: Exploring student teachers’ experiences." African Educational Research Journal 8, no. 4 (November 6, 2020): 814–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.30918/aerj.84.20.180.
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It is well accepted that not only the ability but also the positive disposition of teachers towards various teaching practices (including differentiated teaching) can be largely traced back to their initial education and training. Therefore, the beliefs and experiences of future teachers for planning and implementing differentiated teaching activities are worth exploring. Based on the above, the purpose of the current study is to explore the beliefs and experiences of future teachers in differentiated teaching. The participants (N = 142) were undergraduate students of a Greek university, who, during a six-month compulsory practical course, planned and implemented in schools a two-hour differentiated course. In particular, the difficulties they encountered in planning and implementing differentiated teaching were investigated, as well as the positive way in which they considered it to contribute to their teaching profile. Data were collected through the participants’ responses to the course’s open-ended evaluation form. Data were analyzed by two independent raters using qualitative analysis. Main findings have shown that the participants encountered difficulties in planning appropriate teaching activities based on the students' learning readiness, while challenges have emerged during teaching related mainly to class management. The participants believe, however, that the whole process has contributed significantly to their teaching skills as well as their motivation for using differentiated teaching and for teaching in general
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Hatlevik, Ove Edvard, Greta Björk Gudmundsdottir, and Anubha Rohatgi. "Digital Downsides in Teacher Education." Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education (NJCIE) 5, no. 4 (November 30, 2021): 123–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/njcie.4227.
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This paper is particularly relevant in the context of a global pandemic when the majority of teaching is conducted online or in a hybrid environment that requires long hours in front of a screen. Online teaching is becoming increasingly important throughout education, and our findings draw attention to some of the challenges and possible pitfalls of the extensive use of digital technologies and, consequently, implications for teacher education. In the paper, we explore student teachers’ perceptions of digital downsides, their teaching tools self-efficacy, their resilience to digital distractions, and physical discomfort from the use of digital technology. We aim to identify these four concepts and examine whether and how they interconnect. A cross-sectional design was used to analyse data from 561 first-year student teachers enrolled in two teacher education programmes in two universities in Norway in 2019. The findings indicate that resilience to digital distractions decreases and a higher level of reported physical discomfort from digital technology increases student teachers’ perceived downsides of digital technologies. Overall, 38% of the variation in perceived digital downsides within the two teacher education programmes can be explained by these two concepts, as well as to the study programme the student teachers attended.
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Rufai, Saheed, Adeola Oyenike Adeosun, Akinola Saliu Jimoh, and Bello Musa. "TEACHER EDUCATOR PROFESSIONALISM AND STUDENT TEACHER LEARNING IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES." Indonesian Journal of Social Research (IJSR) 3, no. 3 (November 24, 2021): 143–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.30997/ijsr.v3i3.133.
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Of the three components constituting teacher education curriculum, namely general education, specialized education and professional education, the professional education component is arguably accorded the highest consideration in the scholarship of teaching. However, there is an emerging concern over the involvement of non-education specialists in the teaching of this component. Yet, there is little evidence of sufficient engagement with this concern in the Nigerian context. As a sequel to a study on pedagogical misconceptions by student teachers, this paper examines the impact of teacher educators' professionalism on student teachers' learning in Nigerian universities. Through the analytic method, the study engaged with data collected through the instrumentality of official records like Faculty brochures, lecture notes developed by teacher educators, systematic observations by the researchers, and semi-structured interviews involving selected participants. The qualitative study employs a constructivist paradigm that methodically situates data and analysis in the context of the experiences and perceptions of both the participants and researchers, and focusses on the main theme, namely teacher educator's knowledge as a predictor of student-teacher learning, which emerged from the data for the earlier study as collected in three universities where the present lead researcher assessed prospective teachers on teaching practice in their third and fourth years, in his capacity as teaching practice supervisor. In exposing the effect of teacher educator professionalism on prospective teacher learning, the present study revealed instances of miseducation by some of the teacher educators involved in teaching professional education courses, which substantially accounts for the student teachers' pedagogical misconceptions