Innovative Pedagogical Teaching Technologies: Content and Characteristics

Shaping Teaching Preparation Content According to Emerging Pedagogical Paradigms

We describe the main lines of a teacher preparation model aiming to help teachers experience the opportunities and difficulties of using ICT (Information and Communication Technology) as a means for encouraging students to learn from and with peers. Based on our experience with in-service and pre-service teachers, we firstly discuss the levels of competence to be achieved by trainee teachers, p...

Teaching programming in secondary school: A pedagogical content knowledge perspective

The goal of this literature study is to give some preliminary answers to the questions that aim to uncover the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of Informatics Education, with focus on Programming. PCK has been defined as the knowledge that allows teachers to transform their knowledge of the subject into something accessible for their students. The core questions to uncover this knowledge are...

Developing Effective Mathematics Teaching: Assessing Content and Pedagogical Knowledge, Student-Centered Teaching, and Student Engagement

The Mathematics Teacher Transformation Institutes (MTTI) program attempts to develop math teacher leaders in part by providing content, inquiry and leadership courses aimed at making them more effective teachers. We assessed progress by observing teacher leaders’ teaching practices, and encouraging them to introduce or extend student‐ centered pedagogy in their classrooms. We found there was li...

Pedagogical and Innovative Practice: Using technologies to support Assessment and Assessment Feedback in real-time

The Pedagogical and Innovative Practice (PIP) project is funded by the Centre of Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. The project was carried out across a community of practice at the School of Computer Science, with six members of academic staff teaching in teams on a variety of subjects such as data visualisation, and strategic i...

Innovative Teaching and Teaching Improvement