The University of Maryland University College’s (UMUC) Department of Education developed a program to increase achievement of secondary school students and increase retention of Master of Arts in Teaching Program (MAT) pre-service teacher candidates entitled, “Professional Partnerships”. “Professional Partnerships” is a tiered system of support that promotes stakeholder success by providing onl...

In this paper we present our experience in using visualization in mathematics education. The experience with our university courses: “Computer tools in matematics” and “Symbolic algebra” provides the basis for mathematics teacher education program http://vizuelizacija.etf.rs/. The program is intended for elementary and high school teachers. The education program deals with modern techniques of ...

This study is an extension of a previous study (Fogarty et al. 1987) that investigated student teacher stress in practice teaching for final year pre-service students in one teacher education program. Stage two set out to discover whether the patterns of stress were similar or different for subsequent third year groups and across different year levels of the one programme. To carry out the stud...

Over the last decade, traditional educational practices in teacher education have not provided prospective teachers with all the necessary skills for teaching students to acquire the skills to cope with the challenges of society in the 21 century. For this reason, there is a worldwide trend toward producing teachers with high teaching competency. To promote competency in using technologies to t...

"W~1T That teachers actually learn %/%/ from different kinds of T T teacher education programs has been the focus of a large scale study at the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning. Known as the Teacher Education and Learning to Teach (TELT) study, this project exam ined not only preservice and inservice programs, but also induction programs and alternative routes. In each of the pr...

Teacher education is deemed to play a critical role in revolutionizing any education system. As a result, pre-service teacher education has received considerable attention in education systems world over. In the context of Iran, the process of teacher education has not been properly implemented and following their being recruited teachers would go directly to classes, without possessing adequat...

The effects of a teacher consultation intervention were examined-namely, the collaborative model for promoting competence and success (COMPASS), which was designed to improve objectives of individualized education programs for children with autism. The intervention consists of an initial parent-teacher consultation, followed by four teacher consultations across the school year. Thirty-five teac...

During the past several decades, scholarly consideration has focused on the concept of teacher knowledge and a variety of reform efforts to rethink both the structure and practices of teacher education to enhance teacher preparation process. As a consequence, the tripartite knowledge base of EFL teacher training is built on the partnership between universities and schools to support student tea...