The Value Of Mentoring To Develop Student Teachers Work-Integrated Learning Skills

How Student Teachers Develop Theories of Teaching

The teaching profession continues to have difficulty in codifying a body of knowledge on which to base pre-service teacher education programs. One problem is the gap between the student teachers’ theoretical beliefs and their practical experiences in classrooms. Student teachers often fail to implement their ideas and instead comply with the status quo in the classroom. Previous research has id...

Assessment of library instruction to develop student information literacy skills.

A work-integrated learning (WIL) framework to develop graduate skills and attributes in an Australian university’s accounting program

Universities are being placed under increasing pressure to produce employable work ready graduates who are able to cope in a rapidly changing work environment. This has resulted in universities offering their undergraduate students the opportunity to gain business acumen and real world experience by undertaking work-integrated learning (WIL) as part of their learning. This paper proposes a thre...

Student Teachers Learning to Plan Mathematics Lessons

Most educational professionals would agree that planning is an essential component of teaching. Such planning, educational texts and reports often stress, must focus on the specifying of clear objectives and a clear lesson structure. As a result, a common framework used to introduce student teachers to the complexities of lesson planning is premised on starting the planning process with specify...

Mentoring and Beginning Teachers’ Workplace Learning

Mentoring has been the focus of much attention in the recent literature on initial teacher education and induction and as such has become a ‘foundation stone’ of collaborative endeavours between universities and schools in the facilitation of teacher development. In 1998 some 220 beginning teachers and 245 supervisors and mentors in New South Wales government schools were surveyed and beginning...