Work Experience and Trainee Teachers

Teachers’ leadership and students’ experience of group work., 2012, Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice

Group work is used as a means of learning at all levels of most educational systems. However, teachers often use group work without considering its " pros and cons. " Such a mode of non-reflected application may sometimes end up in positive experiences and learning, but the likelihood is that the outcome will be the opposite. The aim of this qualitative study is to address students' experiences...

School Placement of Trainee Teachers: Theory and Practice

Issues Raised by Testing Trainee Primary Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge

For the past four years, pre-service teachers on a postgraduate primary teacher preparation course have been able to enhance their knowledge and skills of the mathematics they will be teaching by opting for additional classes. At the beginning of the course, the pre-service teachers had not really engaged with the content knowledge they required in order to teach pupils up to 11 years of age. I...

Trainee Teachers’ Attitudes Towards Students With Specific Learning Disabilities

Policies on the inclusion of students with special educational needs in mainstream classrooms have focused attention on how general education teachers perceive these students. Furthermore with specific learning disabilities forming a large group of diverse students, and teachers’ attitudes often not changing over the career span, preparing teachers for inclusive education is vitally important. ...

Modelling practical placement of trainee teachers to schools

Several countries successfully use centralized matching schemes for assigning students to study places or fresh graduates to their first positions. In this paper we explore the computational aspects of a possible similar scheme for assigning trainee teachers to schools. Our model is motivated by the situation characteristic for Slovak and Czech education system where each pre-service teacher sp...