In everyday life in classrooms, the thousand and one things that teachers do, say, or do-not-do, all have practical pedagogical significance. Not only the objectives or goals of education but also the means and methods used all have pedagogical value and consequences for teaching and learning. This text explores the nature and significance of the practical forms of knowledge that teachers enact...

This study explored the professional development experiences of 28 practicing teachers in 10 Chicago suburban schools involved in a two-year technology supported Problem-Based Learning curriculum development effort. Asynchronous computer-mediated communications (CMC) were featured as teacher communication tools of the project. The computer-mediated discourse produced by the teachers was compare...

The literature provides evidence and an understanding of the influence of the workplace on the induction year and beyond of physical education teachers. Prospective physical education teachers (recruits) enter teacher preparation programs with pre-conceived mental models of themselves in the teaching workforce. Few studies focus on the change process of teacher preparation programs and possible...

This paper introduces LARAe (Learning Analytics Reflection & Awareness environment), a teacher-oriented dashboard that visualizes learning traces from students, badges and course content. We also present an evaluation of the dashboard in a course on Human-Computer Interaction. The LARAe teacher dashboard provides a detailed overview of group and individual activities, achievements and course ou...

In recent decades, engineering and robotics programs such as First Lego League (FLL) have allowed children ages 9 to 14 to deeply engage with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines and inspired them to explore careers in STEM fields. In 2009, NASA awarded Georgia Tech a contract to develop online professional development (PD) courses for STEM teachers. Electronic p...

Practicum is a significant component of teacher education which links theory to practice and prepares student teachers for their job. The purpose of the courses, as defined within the Curriculum of Teacher Education at Farhangian University, is to prepare student teachers for their teaching career by observing and analyzing the real situation at schools and relating it to their theoretical ...

The present study, following Vygotskyan Sociocultural theory in education, and inspired by Rogoff’s conceptualization (1995, 2003) of development, aimed at conceptual development of  in-service EFL teachers. To this end, two Iranian EFL teachers with pseudonyms (Tara and Sara) were selected as participants of the study. The participating teachers were first taught the sociocultural c...

Introduction Despite the interest in fostering new intentional online communities that support learning, online professional development is still a rarity and often not well understood (Barab, 2003). Many on-line communities are emerging in the wake of social networking tools, but how these environments benefit knowledge construction is unclear. In the Web 2.0 era, it seems only natural that th...