“What shall I do with my students to help them understand this science concept? What materials are there to help me? What are my students likely to already know and what will be difficult for them? How best shall I evaluate what my students have learned?" These questions are common for every teacher, and central to describing the knowledge that distinguishes a teacher from a subject matter spec...

the purpose of this study was to review and compare the views of two experts in the field of basic teaching knowledge and teachers knowledge, lee shulman and gary fenstermacher. shulman forms of teaching knowledge include: propositional knowledge (subject), strategic knowledge and strategic knowledge. shulman basic knowledge of teaching and teachers knowledge, including classes, such as: conten...

What should constitute knowledge bases that we expect our future teachers to gain related to pedagogically sound technology integration? Employing the Shulman’s teacher knowledge base as a theoretical lens, this study examined the complexity of pre-service teachers’ technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPCK) in the context of integrating problem based learning (PBL) and information and ...

This study examines a national sample of 1127 computer science teachers who teach algorithms and programming in upper secondary education; it measures their knowledge with respect to three key domains as described by the TPACK framework: technology, pedagogy, content, and the combination of these areas. According to the results in the TPACK subscales, teachers state that their knowledge is betw...

abstract the present study aims to evaluate efl course contents used in language schools and institutes in teh-ran. to that end, 230 participants in tehran were conveniently sampled. at the outset of the study, two questionnaires were given to all groups, and according to their responses, the data were analyzed. each of the questionnaires was given to participants individually. each group had...