Science Teachers' meaning-making of teaching practice, collaboration and professional development

Teaching practice and the personal and socio-professional development of prospective teachers

This study investigates the interplay between individual and contextual variables during teaching practice and its impact on the personal and socio-professional development of prospective teachers. The purpose of the study was to survey how prospective teachers experienced the process of becoming aware of their emerging identities as teachers, and to demonstrate how the unique, individual stude...

Science Teaching Reform Through Professional Development: Teachers’ Use of a Scientific Classroom Discourse Community Model

This report outlines a 2-year investigation into how secondary science teachers used professional development (PD) to build scientific classroom discourse communities (SCDCs). Observation data, teacher, student, and school demographic information were used to build a hierarchical linear model. The length of time that teachers received PD was the exclusive predictor of change over time, whereas ...

Professional Development of English Teachers in Second Language Teaching

English education is an integration of many factors such as teaching methods, curriculum design etc. In particular, teachers' ability plays an important role in English education. This paper discusses the development of teachers' teaching ability and proposes a series of basic requirements for more effective English education. It is argued that adoption of scientific and appropriate teaching me...

The Professional Development Needs of Primary Teachers in Teaching Mathematics

The Role of Researching, Creativity, Professional Ethics, Professional Development and Use of Technology in the Effective Teaching of Teachers

Background: Effective teaching is a set of teacher behaviors that achieves learning goals and learns more comprehensively. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of research, creativity, professional ethics, professional development and the use of information and communication technology in the effective teaching of teachers. Method: The research method was descriptive-correlatio...