Reflective thinking, which constitutes an important goal in language teacher education, can be fostered by participating online communities of practice. This study explored types reflective discourse generated novice Spanish teachers, and associated themes categories, as they participated a weekly blog video-conferencing session. Types focused on descriptive versus critical reflections, while c...

This article explores the challenges shared by novice teachers in a year-long series of professional development workshops, which were designed to help notice, unpack, and respond difficulties they encountering first three years teaching. The authors analyzed data generated during Oral Inquiry Process workshops identify common who participated this study nuances within them. Findings pointed tw...

We used a sequential synthesis problem to investigate novice teachers’ conceptual difficulties in hydrodynamics. Twenty-one new secondary level physics teachers from various regions of China, who had been service for no more than 2 years, participated the study. Each participant completed written hydrodynamics consisting four questions, all which were related situation about water flowing long,...

Improving the quality of teachers is key to development schools and teaching. There widespread agreement among researchers practitioners that are most significant component in education schools, it therefore obvious supporting professional makes a contribution toward improving educational systems learning outcomes students. "School-based training" refers type in-school vocational training initi...