scholarly journals Learning Teaching Practices: the Role of Critical Mentoring Conversations in Teacher Education

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine J Edwards-Groves
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teaching Practices

scholarly journals A Cross-National Study of the Effects of Education on Pre-Service Teachers’ Attitudes, Intentions, Concerns, and Self-Efficacy Regarding Inclusive Education

2022 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Miesera ◽  
Laura Sokal ◽  
Nicole Kimmelmann
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Inclusive Teaching ◽  
Cross National

This study reports on a cross-national comparison of inclusion-oriented teacher-education programs. Canada and Germany have implemented inclusion in teacher education with the aim of improving inclusion in schools. Previous studies have shown the importance of latent characteristics of prospective teachers for the successful implementation of inclusion in schools and have pointed to the role of inclusion-oriented teacher education in developing these teacher characteristics. To measure potential changes in attitudes, intentions, concerns, and self‑efficacy, 132 student teachers from Germany and Canada were surveyed before and after a course about inclusive education. Internationally validated scales were used: Attitudes towards Inclusion Scale (AIS), Intention to Teach in Inclusive Classroom Scale (ITICS), Concerns about Inclusive Education Scale (CIES), and the Teacher Efficacy for Inclusive Practices scale (TEIP). The results of the German and Canadian groups differed: while significant changes in self-efficacy occurred between the first and second measurement points in both countries, the outcome for other factors varied. Significant changes in intentions to use inclusive teaching practices were found in Canada but not in Germany. The results are discussed in the context of the role of teacher-education programs in fostering inclusive teaching practices.

Practice-Based Teacher Education

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Hauser ◽  
Sarah Schneider Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Novice Teachers ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Teacher Belief ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Instructional Routines ◽  
Do So

Practice-based teacher education (PBTE) is an approach to preparing novice teachers that focuses on the importance of developing novices’ ability to enact teaching practices. Ambitious approaches to PBTE attend to the development of teacher belief, knowledge, and judgment but do so through work on practicing instructional routines that occur with frequency in the work of teaching (e.g., facilitating discussion, modeling). Some scholars of PBTE have emphasized the role of practices or common professional activities in PBTE, while others have foregrounded the importance of practicing teaching for the purpose of improvement. PBTE contrasts with other approaches to teacher education that focus on building teachers’ knowledge or beliefs without focusing on how that knowledge and belief gets instantiated in action.

A Brief Statement on the Future of Public Scholarship and the Research Methods Landscape

2019 ◽  
pp. 700-707
Author(s):  
Patricia Leavy
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Research Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Public Scholarship ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
The Future ◽  
Book Editor

The book editor offers some final comments about the state of the field and promise for the future. Leavy suggests researchers consider using the language of “shapes” to talk about the forms their research takes and to highlight the ongoing role of the research community in shaping knowledge-building practices. She reviews the challenges and rewards of taking your work public. Leavy concludes by noting that institutional structures need to evolve their rewards criteria in order to meet the demands of practicing contemporary research and suggests that professors update their teaching practices to bring the audiences of research into the forefront of discussions of methodology.

scholarly journals Safe Space, Dangerous Territory: Young People’s Views on Preventing Radicalization through Education—Perspectives for Pre-Service Teacher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 205
Author(s):  
Saija Benjamin ◽  
Visajaani Salonen ◽  
Liam Gearon ◽  
Pia Koirikivi ◽  
Arniika Kuusisto
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
International Setting ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
And Training

Initiatives for preventing radicalization and violent extremism through education (PVE-E) have become a feature of global educational policy and educational institutions across all phases, from early childhood to universities, also in Finland. If schools may be regarded as safe spaces here for identity and worldview construction and experiences of belonging, the specific subject matter of PVE-E is also dangerous territory. Not least because of PVE-E’s focus on radicalization, but above all because of perceptions of schools being used as an adjunct of governmental counter-terrorism policy. We argue that understanding young people’s views on issues related to radicalization and violent extremism is critical in order to develop ethical, sustainable, contextualized, and pedagogical approaches to prevent hostilities and foster peaceful co-existence. After providing some critical framing of the Finnish educational context in a broader international setting, we thus examine young people’s views (n = 3617) in relation to the safe spaces through online survey data gathered as a part of our larger 4-year research project Growing up radical? The role of educational institutions in guiding young people’s worldview construction. Specifically focused on Finland but with potentially wider international implications, more understanding about the topic of PVE-E is needed to inform teacher education and training, to which our empirical data makes some innovative contribution.

The neglected role of classroom management in teacher education

2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan van Tartwijk ◽  
Karen Hammerness
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Classroom Management

Especially for Special Educators

1976 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 244-252 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Special Educators ◽  
Exceptional Children ◽  
Teacher Education Research

Thirty special educators, some of whom have worked in the field for over 50 years, were interviewed by telephone. Each was asked to identify milestone events and pioneers in special education and to describe the development and role of teacher education, research, and The Council for Exceptional Children over the years. Crucial issues and needs in the field today were identified by the group and their responses were synthesized into the first of a series of articles celebrating the Bicentennial.

Mobile Learning to Support Computational Thinking in Initial Teacher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Cornelia Connolly ◽  
Raquel Hijón-Neira ◽  
Seán Ó Grádaigh
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Computational Thinking ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Initial Teacher Education ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Subject

Research on the role of mobile learning in computational thinking is limited, and even more so in its use in initial teacher education. Aligned to this there is a need to consider how to introduce and expose pre-service teachers to computational thinking constructs within the context of the subject area they will teach in their future classrooms. This paper outlines a quasi-experimental study to examine the role of mobile learning in facilitating computational thinking development amongst pre-service teachers in initial teacher education. The study enquires if there are significant differences in grades achieved in computational thinking and programming learning when mobile learning is introduced. Findings showed and reaffirmed the positive influence of the mobile applications on the development of computational thinking amongst the pre-service teachers who participated.

Seeking Support in Teacher Education for Racial Knowledge: The Role of Professional Networks and Social Identities

2021 ◽  
pp. 004208592110584
Author(s):  
Lisette Enumah
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Learning ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Teacher Education Programs ◽  
Race And Racism ◽  
Professional Networks ◽  
Racial Identities ◽  
Racial Knowledge

Drawing from the narrated experiences of teacher educators (TEs) at different institutions, this paper analyzes TEs’ perceptions of support related to their work in teaching about race and racism. TEs varied in the extent to which they viewed their institution as supportive, and they identified factors that signaled that their institution supported teacher learning about race and racism. TEs also described how their racial identities and positional privilege related to tenure status informed engagement with peers both for providing and seeking support. Implications for teacher education programs in providing support for TEs who teach about race and racism are discussed.

Pre-Service Secondary Teacher Education Programme: Some Concerns of Sustainability

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Indrajeet Dutta
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Education Programme ◽  
Secondary Teacher ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Teacher Education Programme ◽  
Teaching Pedagogy ◽  
Secondary Teacher Education ◽  
Do So

With the onset of a new academic session, teacher education programmes across the county will be in a new avatar. The revamping of a teacher education programme has been on the cards for several years but stiff resistance from different quarters of the educational community made it impossible to do so. The revised secondary teacher education programme is new in several counts. Firstly, curricular areas have been made more contextual, class, student and community based. Secondly, teaching pedagogy has been made more child centred, experiential and reflective. Thirdly, internship model has been introduced giving more thrust on acquisition of skills and competencies in actual classroom and real settings rather than artificial settings. But, the reform has brought several challenges in its realm which teacher education programmes and institutes have to face. The present paper deals with the new challenges like demand for teacher education programmes, the role of private teacher education institutes and their increasing focus on commercialization, demand for teacher educators and whether the new system is pro-rich or pro-poor student etc.

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