Teachers’ professional knowledge for teaching early literacy: conceptualization, measurement, and validation

Teaching Information Literacy in Secondary Education: How to Design Professional Development for Teachers?

The networked information and media society provides us increasingly with digital information and knowledge. However, the effective and efficient use of information also requires a high level of information literacy (IL), the competent handling of information and the ability to do that from an early age. Despite this early beginning, the development of IL is considered an important goal of scho...

Technology Flexibility: Conceptualization, Validation, and Measurement

This research investigates technology flexibility, which is the technology characteristic that allows or enables adjustments and other changes to the business process. Technology flexibility has two dimensions, structural and process flexibility, encompassing both the actual technology application and the people and processes that support it. The flexibility of technology that supports business...

Impact of Professional Development for Teachers on Children’s Early Literacy Development

Middle School Mathematics Teachers’ Knowledge for Teaching

Kim Beswick, University of Tasmania Email: [email protected] Telephone: +61 3 6324 3167 Facsimile: +61 3 6324 3048 Abstract: Forty-two middle school mathematics teachers were presented with two mathematics problems, one requiring a percentage of an amount to be calculated and the other involving the interpretation of a pie chart showing percents. The teachers were firstly asked to provide...

Pre-service teachers’ metaphors of teaching and literacy

The purpose of this study was to examine pre-service elementary teachers’ metaphors of teaching and literacy and then relate their metaphorical images of literacy to content presented in the reading methods course. Specifically, fifty-two participants generated responses to open-ended statements, “Teaching is. . .” and “Literacy is. . .” Results indicated that the pre-service teachers’ metaphor...