Building Primary Preservice Teachers’ Identity as Engineering Educators

Preservice Primary School Teachers’ Elementary Geometry Knowledge

Geometrical notions and properties occur in real-world problems, thus Geometry has an important place in school Mathematics curricula. Primary school curricula lays the foundation of Geometry knowledge, pupils learn Geometry notions and properties by exploring their environment. Thus it is very important that primary school teachers have a good base in elementary Geometry. The aim of this paper...

Technology Capacity Building for Preservice Teachers through Methods Courses: Taking Science as an Example

Technology proficiency has widely been considered a necessary quality of school teachers, yet how to help teachers develop this quality remains an unanswered question. While teacher education programs often offer one technology course as a solution to this issue, scholars have recently argued that such technical skill-oriented courses are not sufficient to develop preservice teachers’ ability t...

How Teacher Educators’ Beliefs and Technology Uses Relate to Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs and Attitudes toward Technology

Beliefs about teaching and learning play an important role in transforming classrooms through the use of technology (Ertmer, 1999, 2005). Additionally, attitudes toward technology can influence teachers’ technology uses (Myers & Halpin, 2002; Yildirim, 2000). In order to prepare preservice teachers to use technology effectively, it is necessary to examine their beliefs about learning and teachi...

Teachers and Technology: Enhancing Technology Competencies for Preservice Teachers

Metaphors about violence by preservice teachers.

Violence consists of a pattern of coercive behaviors used by a competent adult or adolescent to establish and maintain power and control over another competent adult or adolescent. These behaviors, which can occur alone or in combination, sporadically or continually, include physical violence, psychological abuse, talking, and nonconsensual sexual behavior. Research indicates that different typ...