Successful teacher education links methodological theory and teaching practice. Research further indicates that student teachers’ development of pedagogical content knowledge can be fostered if they are supported in reflecting on teaching experiences individually and cooperatively. Time and place independent preand in-service teacher training is gaining importance. Due to long distances between...

Although there is evidence that teacher emotional intelligence is important for pupil adjustment and learning and for teachers in managing the emotional demands of their work, little is known about the levels of emotional skill of teachers and beginning teachers. Using Mayer and Salovey’s emotional intelligence (EI) model and the MSCEIT test of EI, this study investigates how emotionally skille...

Response Ability is an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing (the Department). Since 2000, the project team has provided free multimedia resources and practical support for universities and teacher educators, addressing pre-service education for secondary teachers. The focus of the existing Response Ability resources is on the mental health and wellbeing of sec...

This article reports on the working conditions within Swedish ICT-supported distancebased teacher education. Data collected from teacher trainees are analysed and discussed in relation to Swedish governmental policies concerning teacher education and distance education and theories emphasising the importance of social aspects of education. The findings indicate working conditions that are mainl...

Pre-service teachers face many challenges as they learn to teach in ways that are different from their own educational experiences. Pre-service teachers often enter teacher education courses with pre-conceptions about teaching and learning that may or may not be consistent with contemporary learning theory. To build on preservice teachers’ prior knowledge, we need to identify the types of views...

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,...

Service-learning projects are becoming more prevalent in Information Systems education. This study explores the benefits and challenges of community-based research, a special kind of a service-learning strategy, in an Information Systems core course on web development. The paper presents a case study of a service-learning project to develop an educational web portal for a second-grade class by ...

The TPACK framework comprises seven constructs that describe teachers’ technology integration expertise. These TPACK constructs address a theoretical void in the area of educational technology and have been widely adopted by colleges of education for the planning of teacher technology integration courses. This study first describes Singapore pre-service teachers’ TPACK perceptions with respect ...

The study investigates the influence of teacher competence on third grade students' reading achievement in public and independent schools in Sweden. The data derive from the Swedish participation in PIRLS 2001. Regression analysis was employed to explore the relative effects of several indicators of teacher quality. Teachers' sex, teaching experience, in-service training and co-operation with c...

Online teacher education is of growing interest and so is the study of motivation as a key factor in technology-mediated learning environments. This study is based on a pre-service language teacher education programme in Patagonia, a southern Argentinian region with no face-to-face training offers, limited Internet access and a large number of unqualified teachers. Our goal is to broaden the un...