Introduction Community partnerships and community oriented teaching and learning are currently strong themes in schooling and teacher education, and it could be argued that this approach to curriculum through partnerships, community based teaching and learning and service-learning is now ‘centre stage’. In July this year, for example, the International Center for Service Learning in Teacher Edu...

Pre-service teacher preparation in the United States is becoming progressively more challenging with respect to the demands on teachers. This study examined the impact of tutoring approach on pre-service teachers‟ skills to work with English language learners through a qualitative research design. Content analysis was used at the thematic level on student journals written to accompany the semes...

A trend in agricultural education has been a shortage of graduates from preservice agricultural education programs who choose to enter the teaching profession, thus causing a deficit in the number of qualified teachers to fill vacancies. When examining preservice agricultural education programs, student teaching is often the capstone experience, during which, the student teacher works closely w...

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) regularly prepares reports rating teacher preparation programs (TPPs) across the United States on a set of input and process-based standards. The purpose of the research described in this brief is to use data drawn from North Carolina to examine the associations between the NCTQ ratings of TPPs and two measures of teacher performance—teacher value-...

This study was conducted with the participation of five in-service English language teachers and aimed to find out how overseas intercultural experience evaluate effects this on their teacher identity. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews metaphor elicitation. Content analysis procedure employed explore obtained qualitative data. results showed that participants all regard...

Various efforts have been made to improve teacher competence, but there are still many institutions that not optimized capacity development. This study examines the intellectual stimulation of principals in improving competence two favorite East Java region SDI Qurrota A'yun Tulungagung and MI Perwanida Blitar. uses a qualitative descriptive method with multi-case design. Data were collected th...