Developing trainee school teachers' expertise as health promoters

School Placement of Trainee Teachers: Theory and Practice

Book Review: "Developing Expertise Through Experience"

The book ‘Developing expertise through experience’consists of twenty chapters written by language educators. Alan Maley has edited the book. The writers of the chapters have written their stories and experiences about learning English and being an Educator with regard to the notion of ‘sense of plausibility’ defined by Prabhu. Prabhu explains that plausibility in pedagogy is teachers’ intuition...

Developing Pre-service Teachers’ Technology Integration Expertise through the Tpack-developing Instructional Model

This study describes the TPACK-Developing Instructional Model which prescribes an instructional process for developing pre-service teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) during the instruction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. This model proposes three phases for developing teachers’ TPACK through ICT instruction. The phases are: fostering teachers’...

Learning to teach ‘ideas and evidence’ in science: a study of school mentors and trainee teachers

This article reports on a small-scale evaluation of how trainee teachers undertaking a PGCE in secondary science worked collaboratively with their school-based mentors to enhance practice in the use of ideas and evidence in science. Mentors and trainee teachers were introduced to the resources and teaching strategies previously developed at King’s College London as part of the Nuffield-funded I...

Beginning Teachers and Technology: Developing Identities as Teachers

This paper reports on a study that investigated the pedagogical practices and beliefs of preservice and beginning teachers in integrating technology into the teaching of secondary school mathematics. A case study documents how one teacher's modes of working with technology changed over time and across different school contexts, and identifies relationships between a range of personal and contex...