Newly qualified teachers’ professional digital competence: implications for teacher education

Children's knowledge, teachers' knowledge: Implications for early childhood teacher education

Discover – Deepen – Do: a 3D Pedagogical Approach for Developing Newly Qualified Teachers as Professional Learners

This article presents a strategy for teaching newly qualified teachers (NQTs) during their first year of teaching, developed by teacher educators from the University of Hertfordshire School of Education. The strategy included a new learning and teaching approach designed to enable NQTs to: develop as critically reflective teachers; build confidence in their professional 'voices'; learn collabor...

Online (Web-based) Education for Mentors of Newly Qualified Teachers: Challenges and Opportunities

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a research project concerning a web-based (online) course for mentors of newly qualified teachers (NQTs). — Design/methodology/approach – A mixed-method approach with questionnaires and interviews was used to collect the data. Findings – Positive attitudes towards online education were discerned and initial concerns about the use of technical ...

Educational Beliefs of Higher Education Teachers and Students: Implications for Teacher Education

This paper begins by acknowledging the established and powerful link between educational beliefs and the teaching and learning practices of teaches and students. Based on this belief-practice connection, the paper documents the findings of a study that investigated the beliefs of a group of higher education teachers and students, most of whom were teaching and learning in a teacher education co...

Competence of newly qualified registered nurses from a nursing college.

The South African education and training system, through its policy of outcomes-based education and training, has made competency a national priority. In compliance to this national requirement of producing competent learners, the South African Nursing Council (1999 B) require that the beginner professional nurse practitioners and midwives have the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes and val...