BACKGROUND Brunei started implementing its two main reformed teacher education programs, MTeach and MEd, in 2009. The reasons for these innovations included upgrading the standard of teacher training, increasing teaching effectiveness, and improving the quality of education in the country. The purpose of this study was to determine how student teachers coped with and sought help on the challeng...

This study was conducted in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) context to explore Iranian teachers' perceptions of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and their sense of professional identity (PI) as well as to scrutinize how their cognitions were practiced in EAP classes. To this end, two ELT teachers and two content instructors (i.e. subject experts who teach EAP courses in addition to...

It is not uncommon for classroom teacher researchers to face multiple obstacles, but for the fifth grade teacher in this study, Donna, her administrators did not support her research efforts because they thought it would take away from preparing students for end of grade tests. The purpose of this study was to explore the ways conducting teacher research shaped Donna’s teacher identities and to...

this study was an attempt to find out whether co-teaching model has statistically any significant impact on improving motivation and achievement of iranian young efl learners or not. the study was conducted at salehin english language department in tehran. to accomplish the purpose of this study, the researchers chose a sample of 91 participants which was reduced to 62 homogenous students throu...

This article reports on the working conditions within Swedish ICT-supported distancebased teacher education. Data collected from teacher trainees are analysed and discussed in relation to Swedish governmental policies concerning teacher education and distance education and theories emphasising the importance of social aspects of education. The findings indicate working conditions that are mainl...

This paper concerns the development of a scenario aiming at the improvement of teacher education in Geneva in the field of media, image and ICT (MITIC) in a mediaand pedagogy-oriented process instead of technology-driven action as is usually the case. Among a lot of observations, experiments and constraints, the key factors we address are the lack of well-educated teachers of teachers (level F3...

This article argues that current re#ective practitioner models have a temporally truncated bias that has resulted in an emphasis on retrospective over prospective re#ection. The temporally distributed nature of prospective teacher thinking is illustrated using data from a study that examined six Intern teachers' future-oriented re#ection. Themes that emerged from Interns' graphical depictions a...