The use of interactive whiteboards (IWBs) grew dramatically over the past two decades, especially within educational settings. This action research project attempted to determine how IWBs affected engagement, interaction, and learning when used for teacher training. Survey results indicated positive teacher attitudes towards IWBs prior to training, and that these impressions intensified as a re...

The increasing importance of computers in today's world forces teachers and educators to become technology-proficient teachers, and to make use of technology in the classroom practices. All over the world most countries acknowledging the need for technologically proficient teachers, have started to infuse some degree of technological competency into pre-service teacher training programmes. Turk...

According to the American Society for Engineering Education, the four STEM disciplines should not be taught in isolation in a school curriculum, but interdisciplinary reinforced, and continually cross referenced, as part of a dynamic triangle that ultimately researches, designs, and creates the way we live, work and play. Therefore, it only makes solid academic and professional sense to prepare...

This article explores content area pre-service teacher beliefs about disciplinary knowledge, perceptions of effective content area teaching, and existing beliefs about how to integrate literacy into the content areas. Ten pre-service teachers across ten secondary content areas were asked to describe three important variables in secondary teaching: 1) the knowledge of their content area, 2) char...

Research indicates that when interactive whiteboards are used well they can increase student engagement and learning (Glover, Miller, Averis & Door, 2007; Schuck & Kearney, 2007, 2008). This means it is important to educate future teachers in how to use interactive whiteboards and how to incorporate them successfully into their teaching. Current research indicates that a teacher’s pedagogy or ‘...

This paper reports on a how pre-service teacher use of an online classroom simulation (ClassSim) supplemented existing practicum experiences and contributed to the development of their emerging professional identity. ClassSim was developed to provide pre-service teachers with a safe virtual environment in which they can explore ‘authentic’ and practical classroom scenarios. Users were able to a...