Pre-Service Teacher Multicultural Education in Russia: Problems and Responses

Development of ICT Competency in Pre-Service Teacher Education

Starting from the key competencies for a knowledge society, this paper examines the information and communication technology (ICT) competency needed by teachers for effective teaching in the 21st-century. The paper analyzes the existing pre-service education programmes for teachers’ ICT competency in Lithuanian universities and colleges, self-evaluation of future teachers of their technological...

Pre-service teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules

How to cite this article: Gierdien, F. (2012). Preservice teachers’ views about their mathematics teacher education modules. Pythagoras, 33(1), Art. #134, 10 pages. http://dx.doi. org/10.4102/pythagoras. v33i1.134 This article reports on the views of intermediate and senior phase pre-service teachers (PSTs) enrolled in mathematics education modules that attempt to teach both content and pedagog...

The Microscience Project and Its Impact on Pre- Service and In-service Teacher Education

This paper was originally prepared for the workshop, the Secondary Science Education for Development (http://www1.worldbank.org/education/scied/Training/training.htm), which was organized by the World Bank, Human Development, Education Group in April 2000. The workshop aimed to explore some of the issues involved in science education reform within a larger context of social and economic develop...

EI training and pre-service teacher wellbeing

Modern Problems of Mathematics Teacher Training in Russia

The problem of qualitative changes in the training of a mathematics teacher of a secondary school in Russia is defined. In the course of the experimental psychological research we have found three crucial periods of professional development of students. Teachers should be treated at the formation of an integral system of professional-pedagogical activity: professional knowledge, founding stage,...