Understanding Instructor's Challenges of Content Based Instruction : For Pre-service Teachers in Early Childhood Education

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

Early childhood pre - service teachers ’ concerns and solutions to overcome them ( the case of Pamukkale University )

The purpose of this qualitative study is to determine early childhood pre-service teachers’ concerns and solutions. One hundred early childhood pre-service teachers who were enrolled at Pamukkale University, Turkey, answered two open-ended questions by e-mail. In addition, six of these participants were interviewed for developing a deeper understanding of their concerns and solutions. Five main...

Experimental Model for Instruction of Pre-Service Teachers in ICT Tools and E-learning Environments

This article describes the implementation of an experimental model for teaching ICT tools and digital environments in teachers training college. In most educational systems in the Western world, new programs were developed in order to bridge the digital gap between teachers and students. In spite of their achievements, these programs are limited due to several factors: The teachers in the schoo...

Teachers as Designers: Integrating Robotics in Early Childhood Education

This article presents a constructionist approach to introducing technology, in particular robotics, in the early childhood classroom. The authors demonstrate how this approach is well suited, since the four basic tenets of constructionism have a long-standing tradition in early childhood education: (a) learning by designing meaningful projects to share in the community, (b) using concrete objec...

Pre-service Physics Teachers and Physics Education Research

Training pre-service teachers requires, among other things, content knowledge, pedagogical skills and pedagogical content knowledge. Teacher preparation programs have little, if any spare time to add more courses/activities to their program. However, I argue in this paper that we, as educators, must enhance the amount of physics education research in our pre-service physics teacher training pro...