Engaging Teachers with Technology Increased Achievement, Bypassing Teachers Did Not

Teachers and Technology: Enhancing Technology Competencies for Preservice Teachers

Engaging, interacting and connecting with our learners and teachers

In the first editorial of this year’s issue of Perspectives on Medical Education, Jan Borleffs [1] wrote about medical education being and becoming future proof: ‘Definitely, educational concepts based on previous approaches with proven effectiveness should be preserved, but the content of the programme needs to change in concurrence with the changes in society and the requirements for good hea...

Using Student Achievement Data to Evaluate Teachers

The purpose of evaluating teaching effectiveness is to increase student learning. A common metric of student learning is achievement data (i.e., test scores). Thus, it is logical to use student achievement data to evaluate teaching effectiveness. The U.S. has had a short history of using achievement data to evaluate a school or district; the new movement is to use it to evaluate individual teac...

Beginning Teachers and Technology: Developing Identities as Teachers

This paper reports on a study that investigated the pedagogical practices and beliefs of preservice and beginning teachers in integrating technology into the teaching of secondary school mathematics. A case study documents how one teacher's modes of working with technology changed over time and across different school contexts, and identifies relationships between a range of personal and contex...

Teachers Learning Technology by Design

Although there has been much debate about what teachers need to know about technology, less attention has been paid to how they are supposed to learn it. Teacher preparation programs need to go beyond merely training teachers in how to use specific software and hardware tools, and instead focus on developing an understanding of the complex set of interrelationships between artifacts, users, too...