This presentation aimed at providing a picture of the present scenario of teacher education at a glance. It also points out the necessities for developing new frameworks for education. The present paper focused on the basic problems of education and pointed the basic fundamentals that should be considered while providing teacher education. It stressed the main attributes of a profession such as...

Predicting On-the-Job Teacher Success Based on a Group Assessment Procedure Used for Admission to Teacher Education

We report research and development work with STEP (Secondary Teacher Education Project) Web, an innovative and complex web site designed to support learning through facilitated video case discussions in secondary teacher education programs. The goal of instruction with STEP is to help pre-service teachers acquire useful scientific knowledge about cognitive psychology and other learning sciences...

There is overwhelming evidence that today’s education is inadequate for responding to the demands of the 21st century and probably beyond. In order to facilitate students’ learning and education, it will be pivotal to firstly re-consider what is required from the teacher and teacher professional competency. In this paper, we argue that for education being responsive to the requirements of the d...

Intrigued by the notion that effective teaching is as much about relationship as it is about ‘technical’ proficiency, the author examines the values of teachers that inform classroom relationships, and poses the question as to whether there are particular teacher values that are necessary for quality values education. This question is addressed by focusing on the teaching strategies involved in...

In recent years, research into the learning of pronunciation pedagogy and its effects on a teacher’s capacity to provide effective instruction has been steadily growing. Nevertheless, prominent puzzle piece still remains uncovered: direct effect that coursework trainee’s ability deliver instruction. To address this gap, current study explores development second language teacher cognitions actua...

The discourse of reflection is now firmly embedded in a range of teacher education programs in Australia and overseas. Reflective frameworks have been used by teacher educators to offset the perennial emphasis on technically prescriptive interpretations of ‘being a teacher’. Whilst these undoubtedly contribute to the personal ‘meaning making’ of neophyte teachers, particularly in relation to pr...

The structural complexity of the teacher education unit is pulled together by a common conceptual framework of teacher preparation that is supported by the missions of the university, the colleges and the departments. Our conceptual framework is continually evolving as it is influenced by our study of teacher preparation. We view our program as holistic and dynamic. While supported by the frame...

This research aims to investigate the contributions of KARDS (knowing, analyzing, recognizing, doing, and seeing) to Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) institute teachers’ professional identity reconstruction. The researchers employed purposive sampling to choose twenty teachers. A KARDS questionnaire (Hassani, Khatib, & Yazdani Moghaddam, 2019a, 2019b) was used to classify the teacher...