Pre-Service Teacher Training Program of STEM-based activities in Computing Science to Develop Computational Thinking

Training In-service Teachers to Develop Statistical Thinking

In C. Reading (Ed.), Data and context in statistics education: Towards an evidence-based society. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS8, July, 2010), Ljubljana, Slovenia. Voorburg, The Netherlands: International Statistical Institute. www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~iase/publications.php [© 2010 ISI/IASE] TRAINING IN-SERVICE TEACHERS TO DEVELOP STATISTICAL T...

EI training and pre-service teacher wellbeing

CSCL-Based Pre-Service Teacher Program as Knowledge Building

The study reports two design experiments on the pre-service teacher program to advance their understanding of learning as knowledge building. We designed the course with a CSCL tool. In the first year, we did not have information on students’ characteristics. Analyses of students’ final essays and their discourse activities on the CSCL showed: (1) that we failed to improve students’ understandi...

Pre-Service Teacher Training in Mathematics Using Tablet PC Technology

This study focuses on the use of innovative Tablet PC technology in learning and teaching mathematics. Specifically the effects of incorporating Tablet PC technology in pre-service teachers’ mathematics education were analyzed. The significant impact of technology use in mathematics education was assessed by evaluating and comparing students’ final project and course grades. Grade performance o...

Examination of Pre-service Teacher‟s Training through Tutoring Approach

Pre-service teacher preparation in the United States is becoming progressively more challenging with respect to the demands on teachers. This study examined the impact of tutoring approach on pre-service teachers‟ skills to work with English language learners through a qualitative research design. Content analysis was used at the thematic level on student journals written to accompany the semes...