Novice web teachers teaching novice web learners

Designing an Effective Web-Based Coding Environment for Novice Learners

At many technical community colleges, students are seeking to master new skills, such as a familiarity with Web design and scripting, in an effort to obtain employment upon graduation. Yet unlike their counterparts in traditional four-year college programs, these students move through the curriculum at a rapid pace and are rarely provided with an adequate means to practice the hands-on aspects ...

Novice and Expert Teachers’ Conceptions of Learners’ Prior Knowledge

This study presents comparative case studies of preservice and first-year teachers’ and expert teachers’ conceptions of the concept of prior knowledge. Kelly’s (The Psychology of Personal Construct, New York: W.W. Norton, 1955) theory of personal constructs as discussed by Akerson, Flick, and Lederman (Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2000, 37, 363–385) in relationship to prior knowledg...

Expert and Novice Teachers 1 Running head: PROBLEM REPRESENTATION IN TEACHING Problem Representation In Teaching: Inferences from Research of Expert and Novice Teachers

Research examining differences between expert and novice teachers is reviewed through the lens of cognition to outline and establish how features of the classroom are mentally represented. Studies are reviewed under Shulman’s (1986) framework characterizing knowledge bases necessary for teacher effectiveness, including content knowledge, pedagogical content knowledge and general pedagogical kno...

3 Characteristics of Expert and Novice Teachers

In the previous chapter, I reviewed three major theories of expertise and their delineation of the characteristics of experts across skills and disciplines. In this chapter, I shall examine the characteristics of novice and expert teachers that have been identified in the literature on teaching expertise and see to what extent they share the characteristics of novices and experts in other profe...

Novice Teachers’ Attention to Student Thinking