In recent decades, English has gained prominence in Indonesia. However, due to instructors' lack of proficiency, instruction at the secondary level shows a significant failure. Today, amid COVID-19 epidemic, which pushed remote education, challenge teaching as foreign language Indonesian schools becomes more severe. Due in-service teachers' proficiency and ICT abilities, future pre-service educ...

This autobiographical narrative inquiry study sheds some light on my career trajectory from a pre-service EFL teacher to an in-service tertiary teacher. The data were garnered written reflections lived experiences during initial education program and seven years after graduation (2011-2021). Thematic coding was employed analyze the data. findings signified dynamics as novice It challenging find...

We report research and development work with STEP (Secondary Teacher Education Project) Web, an innovative and complex web site designed to support learning through facilitated video case discussions in secondary teacher education programs. The goal of instruction with STEP is to help pre-service teachers acquire useful scientific knowledge about cognitive psychology and other learning sciences...

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education has recently been gaining popularity in a number of countries. This seems to have ramifications for increasing the intensity with which professional development programmes are implemented at both in-service pre-service teacher levels. The present study provides systematic literature review on scientific articles published betwee...

Professional development and teacher education policies have the potential to greatly affect teachers’ abilities to teach and, as a result, students’ abilities to learn. States can play varied roles in the provision of teacher education and professional development. This policy brief summarizes states’ policy approaches to teacher professional development and education throughout teachers’ care...

Current models for teacher education are not delivering enough teachers of sufficient quality across the developing world (UNSECO, 2015). In 2005, UNESCO suggested that ‘Training models for teachers should be reconsidered in many countries to strengthen the school-based pre-and in-service training rather than rely on lengthy traditional, institutional pre-service training’ (p3). Increasingly, m...

This paper presents findings from a research project that integrated computer-mediated communication (CMC) into teacher education to provide future language teachers the opportunity to experience CMC-based learning. Overall goals of the project included preparing pre-service language teachers to use computer technology in their future teaching, and fostering electronic and professional literacy...