This paper discusses the potential of two information and communications technology tools designed to support the management of school teachers’ professional knowledge. Framed by drawing on experience of teacher education in England, the paper is structured around a consideration of what is meant by teachers’ professional knowledge and issues in technology-mediated professional development. Two...

Most of the reforms, which have been undertaken in the last 30 years in the Turkish educational system, are about teacher education. Teacher education has a history of more than 150 years in Turkey. The first teacher education school was established in 1848 and all teacher education institutions, whose curriculum was based on the professional approach, were governed by the Ministry of National ...

Continuing education curriculum construction is the key work to complete the teachers’ continuing education system, it is also an important part of the teachers’ specialization. This study aims to master the main problems of the current primary and secondary school teachers’ continuing education curriculum construction and put forward the corresponding improvement countermeasures. Research in Y...

There are many challenges that schools face when implementing technology education in an existing curriculum. For example the interdisciplinary nature of technology education, such as the Picaxebased mechatronics program that is the focus of this paper, poses questions such as where should the program sit in the curriculum, which teacher(s) should take ownership of it and how should (s)he/they ...

Fostering interdisciplinary learning in biology will require significant changes in the way we teach science to K–12 students. The perspective on interdisciplinary biology teaching and learning in this essay is based on my experiences as a former research cell biologist, high school science teacher, and developer of secondary science curricula and teacher professional development programs used ...

The current study aims at understanding the place of technology integration in Saudi pre-service teacher education curriculum. To achieve this, a sequential qualitative approach was implemented in two main stages. First, national and curriculum policies were thematically analysed. Based on this, semistructured interviews with three key policymakers were conducted in the second stage. Main findi...

The purpose of the paper is to briefly state the case for a revised technological1 teacher education program and describe a conceptual model developed at the Faculty of Education, The University of Western Ontario. The model outlined assumes that a re-thinking of how technological teachers learn to teach is necessary if new ways of teaching are to be fostered. The need has three dimensions. Fir...

Risky Business iii Acknowledgments ConnectEd: The California Center for College and Career and The National Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education (NCHSTE) want to thank the many people who supported this work and helped develop these integrated curriculum units. We would especially like to thank the academic and health science teachers from 12 high schools who participated in ou...