This chapter addresses the importance of photography as an element teacher training, given that nowadays, one cannot ignore obsession, almost unhealthy among adolescents, to be continuously on social networks making public their personal lives through photographs or self-portraits they take make clear role in society, thus using informative function (Holzbrecher, 2015). As is not constituted ob...

This research studies teacher reflection as a tool to improve teaching practice, focusing on student learning. The objective is describe the way in which teachers area operationalize practice of science various higher education careers. theoretical framework takes elements from didactics, and concepts action references, especially Donald Schön. proposes qualitative approach with an interpretati...

This research seeks to analyse and propose a solution to support classroom-based teaching in the Department of Chocó, Colombia, which is located in a rural area and has been the subject of many social projects for the development of its people. Due to the disparities in different regions of the country, the education sector is forced to look for new working environments that are suitable for ru...

Given the constraints in teacher education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, (NTNU), one-to-one interaction via email between the student teacher out on teaching practice and a professor or a university supervisor is a favoured approach. The case studies from NTNU describe how student teachers learn to reflect over episodes from the classroom in a structured interaction wit...

Recent educational reforms and research on teacher professional development (TPD) recognizes that if teachers are going to improve their practice, they need to have access to on-going, quality professional development that is situated in their everyday instructional environment that provides opportunities to communicate, collaborate, and reflect on their teaching. Within the last several years,...

Thinking, particularly reflective thinking or inquiry, is essential to both teachers’ and students’ learning. In the past 10 to 15 years numerous commissions, boards, and foundations as well as states and local school districts have identified reflection0 inquiry as a standard toward which all teachers and students must strive. However, although the cry for accomplishment in systematic, reflect...

Science teachers from secondary schools in Tanzania were offered an in-service arrangement to prepare them for the integration of technology in a studentcentered approach to science teaching. The in-service arrangement consisted of workshops in which educative curriculum materials were used to prepare teachers for student-centered education and for the use and application of Microcomputer Based...