Reflective teaching methodology involves questioning one own self to bring perfection by asking the following questions: • Which teaching model am I using? • How does it apply in specific teaching situations? • How well is it working? Teacher educator should apply this theory in classroom practice, in order observe and reflects on the results so that the classroom becomes a kind of laboratory w...

Research on pre-service music teacher occupational identity often highlights two competing identities: performer and teacher (L‟Roy, 1983; Roberts, 1991; Pellegrino, 2009). Of the many factors that contribute to the occupational identity of the pre-service music teacher (Woodford, 2002), conducting has the potential to integrate performer and teacher identities. Previous research indicates that...

The use of technology has become increasingly important in language teaching and learning. The successful use of technology, however, requires that language teachers have the necessary technical competence and pedagogical knowledge. The volume Teacher Education in CALL, edited by Philip Hubbard and Mike Levy, appears at a critical time when the issue of how to prepare current and future languag...

A wide range of factors impact the choice teaching as a career and result in entry to profession. The notion that these motivations may also be possible antecedents teacher identity was rationale behind this study. present study aimed determine pre-service English foreign language (EFL) teachers’ motivation for choosing identities, gauge what extent predict their identities. study, therefore, a...

Course materials in teacher education programmes are one of the means to support young teachers learn content knowledge and pedagogical theories. The chosen their learning a range areas, this article presents findings study that explored how Swedish preschool student perceived course relation internationalisation intercultural practice. Questionnaires were administered students at university th...

The aim of this study was to analyze the degree of prediction to which the goal orientation adopted by the student and the motivational climate created by the teacher as perceived by students in physical education classes, have on the students' self-determined behaviors. The sample included 846 high school students from the Murcia region (Spain) aged 12-19 years old. The Spanish versions of the...

To maintain a professional identity, teachers are to some degree dependent on their student’s mental representations of, and interactions with, them. This affords students’ relational power over teachers possibly invoking a unique form of attachment dependence and responding in some teachers. Data reported in this paper were drawn from a larger research project which asked 11 questions about th...

Technology proficiency has widely been considered a necessary quality of school teachers, yet how to help teachers develop this quality remains an unanswered question. While teacher education programs often offer one technology course as a solution to this issue, scholars have recently argued that such technical skill-oriented courses are not sufficient to develop preservice teachers’ ability t...

The M C Squared European FP7 project was about supporting social creativity in the design of resources ambitioning a new genre of mediation in mathematics education. The resources were e-books meshing narrative with dynamic and constructionist digital artefacts. The project generated four socio-technical environments, each involving a Community of Interest producing 64 very diverse c-books. Emb...