From ‘Plodder’ to ‘Creative’: feedback in teacher education

Effective teacher education: from student-teacher candidates to novice teachers prepared for urban education

PREPARING TEACHER CANDIDATES TO BE EFFECTIVE URBAN EDUCATORS WHOARE REFLECTIVE, INNOVATIVE, AND COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY byCHAVON L. JACKSON December, 2011Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Crawford-McKinneyMajor: Curriculum and InstructionDegree: Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent a teacher educationprogram prepares teacher candidates to b...

REVIEW OF TEACHER EDUCATION IN CALL Teacher Education in CALL

The use of technology has become increasingly important in language teaching and learning. The successful use of technology, however, requires that language teachers have the necessary technical competence and pedagogical knowledge. The volume Teacher Education in CALL, edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy, appears at a critical time when the issue of how to prepare current and future languag...

: examining l2 teachers’ corrective feedback types in relation to learners’ uptake, proficiency levels, and context types

abstract this study investigates the teachers’ correction of students’ spoken errors of linguistic forms in efl classes, aiming at (a) examining the relationship between the learners’ proficiency level and the provision of corrective feedback types, (b) exploring the extent to which teachers’ use of different corrective feedback types is related to the immediate types of context in which err...

Inquiry into Teacher Education From: David Killingly

I welcome the inquiry into teacher training. I am an IT professional of 20 years standing, with the appropriate academic and professional qualifications. I have no involvement with or vested interest in the academic establishment, although I have had some exposure to this through the attainment of a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics, my current candidature for a Master of Computing Studies, some year...

A Global Epidemic of Creative Education! Shaping and Implementing Creative Education in Primary Education in Taiwan