In exploring the potential for mentoring to support novice teachers’ use of effective teaching practices, we conducted a grounded theory analysis about change potential. Themes emerging from cross-case analysis of survey, interview, and observation data from six beginning primary teachers in the US and their mentors revealed factors, other than type of mentoring programme, that related to begin...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microteaching, a teacher training technique currently practiced worldwide, provides teachers an opportunity to perk up their teaching skills by improving the various simple tasks called teaching skills. with the proven success among the novice and seniors, microteaching helps to promote real-time teaching experiences. the core skills of microteachin...

In this paper, a practice-based framework for the identification and discussion of prospective elementary school teachers' mathematics content knowledge is described. This framework ‘the Knowledge Quartet’ emerged from intensive scrutiny of 24 videotaped lessons, taught by novice teachers. Application of the Knowledge Quartet in lesson observation and teacher education is illustrated with refer...

Classroom observation research and research on teacher expertise are similar in their reliance on observational data with high-inference procedure to assess the quality of instruction. Expertise research usually uses low-inference measures like eye tracking to identify qualitative difference between expert and novice behaviors and cognition. In this study, we used mobile eye-tracking technology...