These three journals, plus the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education, constitute the primary publication outlets for work in the area of technology and teacher education. Many other journals, of course, publish papers on the topic, but these four publications are the only ones dedicated solely to the topic of technology and teacher edu...

Not all graduates of teacher education programs become great teachers. Critiques of teaching quality consistently point a finger at teacher education, implying that if only teacher preparation was improved then better teaching would be more common. Teacher educators quite rightly identify all kinds of external factors that undermine their best efforts such as the poor funding of teacher educati...

This paper presents a study that was undertaken as the first phase of an action research project associated with the introduction of a Legal Studies module in the first year of secondary Social Science teacher education at the University of Goroka. The ultimate objective of the module is to prepare teachers to take an active role in the development of the law in Papua New Guinea. The paper prov...

CONTEXT Promoting a culture of teaching may encourage students to choose a surgical career. Teaching in a human factors (HF) curriculum, the nontechnical skills of surgery, is associated with surgeons' stronger identity as teachers and with clinical students' improved perception of surgery and satisfaction with the clerkship experience. OBJECTIVE To describe the effects of an HF curriculum on...

EFL teachers’ professional identity is a multi-dimensional and complicated concept. It is influenced by many other issues in the educational context such as reflective practice. This study intended to explore the relationship between professional identity and reflectivity of Iranian EFL teachers. It also aimed to examine how high and low reflective teachers perceive the professional identity co...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss ideas related to test preparation. Specifically, the authors focus on physical education teacher preparation programs. The paper discusses the current high-stakes testing landscape that exists in teacher education, shares the T.E.S.T. model (Translate, Eliminate, Solve or Substitute, and (avoid) Tricks) for test preparation, examines how self-efficacy is ...

Different kinds of discussion methods have been developed to help students achieve different kinds of instructional objectives. The following discussion methods are analyzed from the perspective of the role demands that they make of students and teachers: (1) cooperative learning discussions; (2) the subject mastery discussion method; and (3) issues-oriented discussions. Developers of all three...

This article examines three conceptual reforms in US teacher education (competency-based teacher education (CBTE), reflective teacher education (RTE) and constructivist teacher education (CTE)) for their effects on the education of multicultural, multilingual youth, as well as considering alternative certification (AC), known here as an ‘anti-reform’. The author suggests that although each refo...

The use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) in Zimbabwe’s teacher education colleges is of paramount importance. The teacher trainees have a dual role to play: learning through ICTs and also learning how to teach through them. Interestingly, the rate at which schools have embraced the use of ICTs is unprecedented, but this has not been matched with an equal effort by teacher ed...