While there has been an increasing number of graduate students who enter teacher education after obtaining a higher research degree (e.g., PhD or EdD), scant attention has been paid to their professional learning as prospective teacher educators in higher education. To fill this gap, this study, informed by the social theory of learning, investigates how three PhD students learned to become tea...

The article presents a framework for explaining how teachers’ perspectives and knowledge about child development contribute to classroom practices and considers the implications of that framework for teacher education and for research on teacher education. The framework describes relations among different theoretical views on children’s cognitive and social development, the role of the teacher ...

Professional development and teacher education policies have the potential to greatly affect teachers’ abilities to teach and, as a result, students’ abilities to learn. States can play varied roles in the provision of teacher education and professional development. This policy brief summarizes states’ policy approaches to teacher professional development and education throughout teachers’ care...

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Teacher education programs are experiencing reform movements in both performance based assessment and in the integration of technology into the curriculum. Performance assessment entails movement away from traditional curricula and assessment means to achieve more authentic, "real world" ways of verifying the preparedness of education graduates. Our institution’s response to these reform effort...

Singapore students boast stellar performance at international benchmarking studies such as PISA and TIMSS. One of the major contributors to the consistently good performance in mathematics and science is the quality of our science teacher education in Singapore. Through a consistent, systematic and continuous system, there is a seamless transition of pre-service teacher education to continuing ...

Mobile devices have become attractive learning devices for education. While the majority of the existing research has focused primarily on the value of mobile learning for students, researchers have recently started exploring its potentials within teacher development. The present qualitative synthesis of quantitative and qualitative research aimed to address trends and gaps observed in the lite...

In this study, we investigated the professional identities of 490 pre-service teachers (PSTs) at University Hamburg, Germany. By distributing 100 percentage points, PSTs assessed relevance roles subject specialist (SS), didactician (DD), and pedagogue (PD) for themselves currently (actual identity) an ideal teacher in different school types (designated identity). A theory-based non-hierarchical...

the most important goal of each society, is to reach economic development. as the goal and agent of development, man has got an important responsibility, which responsibility is realized by way of education, specially higher education, because the universities are the main factors for progress, production of knowledge and education of specialized human forces and they play a significant role in...