This chapter clearly illustrates that emphasis on preparation of teachers to integrate ICT is gaining momentum in the education sector. Arguably, underpinning this emphasis is the convergence of assertions that ICT integration has the potential to enhance the quality of teaching and learning. Nonetheless, considering that the debate about effective teaching has overtime existed between two tens...

Teachers should be received specialized training, have higher education workers of professional quality. In order to develop the high quality teacher, teacher training curriculum should focus on professional skills. Our school has to strengthen the professional skills of teachers as a breakthrough in curriculum mode innovation, by enhancing practice teaching in the curriculum, strengthen the et...

With the spread of English as the global language, many people from English-speaking countries go to foreign land to work as English teachers. A review of the literature reveals that there is little research on these teachers’ teaching-abroad experiences. The current study is an attempt to address this gap in the literature. Situated in an intercultural team-teaching program in Taiwan, this stu...

Research indicates that outdoor teaching practices within a Physical Education (PE) context are framed by several factors with the potential to weaken or strengthen PE teachers’ control of pedagogic messages. Drawing on 12 qualitative interviews with PE teachers in compulsory schools in Sweden, the findings in this study suggest that factors claimed to control teachers’ pedagogic communication ...

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...

In this paper, we target the problem, which has been much debated not only in the field of natural sciences, but across the whole comprehensive school curriculum – interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary teaching. We first render an overview of some fundamental issues concerning the definition of interdisciplinarity and interdisciplinary teaching. We also consider its virtues and deficiencies...

This study examined the reflective journal entries of 42 trainee teachers who underwent teaching practicum in schools in Malaysia. The study investigated the types of reflections, strategies or stance used, and perceptions of the trainees toward reflective journal writing. The findings of the study indicated that the trainee teachers were engaged in Descriptive Reflection (DR), Dialogic Reflect...

A study of a learning management system (LMS) used by two secondary school teachers to deliver a unit of work to middle-school students was conducted to examine the planning and development of a virtual learning environment (VLE) and determine the LMS’s effect on pedagogy. Data was elicited via observation of the teachers’ planning sessions, interviews and a survey rating teachers’ perceptions ...

It is imperative to understand the factor that influence teaching competency. Therefore, it is necessary to study those that have an impact on the process of acquiring teaching competency. Competent nurse teachers have an important role in the achievement of nursing students and improving the quality of nursing education. However, few researches have focused specifically on the process of acqui...

Information and communication technology (ICT) tools have been widely used in teaching and learning foreign languages at all universities in Vietnam with a view to improving the quality of teaching and learning. However, little has been known about how ICT facilities have been used in language teaching, as well as the factors which could possibly enable or hinder teachers’ use of ICT. This conf...