Teacher Educators as Disruptors Redesigning Courses in Teacher Preparation Programs to Prepare white Preservice Teachers

EFL Teacher Educators and EFL teachers’ Perspectives on Identity-Oriented Teacher Education Programs

Different aspects of identity have been investigated across various educational fields. Although many studies have been done to investigate different aspects of EFL teachers’ identity development, there is a paucity of research on identity-oriented EFL teacher education programs. Hence, the purpose of the current study was to investigate EFL teacher educators’ and EFL teachers’ perspectives abo...

How Teacher Educators’ Beliefs and Technology Uses Relate to Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs and Attitudes toward Technology

Beliefs about teaching and learning play an important role in transforming classrooms through the use of technology (Ertmer, 1999, 2005). Additionally, attitudes toward technology can influence teachers’ technology uses (Myers & Halpin, 2002; Yildirim, 2000). In order to prepare preservice teachers to use technology effectively, it is necessary to examine their beliefs about learning and teachi...

Human Rights Awareness of teachers and teacher Educators: An Investigation

there is universal concern within the international community about the contribution of human rights education in ensuring the protection and realization of human rights. Over the past fifty years global events and people’s experiences have given the quest for ensuring peace through human rights awareness and education a major thrust. International documents on human rights education published ...

Using Value Added Models to Evaluate Teacher Preparation Programs

Lesson Study as a Means for Facilitating Preservice Teacher Reflectivity

This study sought to determine if, how, and the extent to which, the implementation of lesson study with preservice teachers facilitates reflection in its participants. The lesson study reports of 20 preservice teachers were analyzed qualitatively along three dimensions to determine what lesson study reports revealed about their reflections. More specifically, the analysis sought to determine w...