Kuram ve uygulamayı bağlam odaklı bütünleştirebilen biçimlendirici değerlendirmeyi öğretmenlerin kişisel mesleki gelişiminde kullanan pek az öğretmen eğitimi modeli geliştirilebilmiştir. Bunlar arasında Klinik Öğretmen Eğitimi Modeli ile Yansıtmaya Dayalı Gerçekçi modelleri öne çıkmaktadır. Bu iki model, adaylarının bilgi becerisini, mesleğe yönelik inanç tutumlarını kişilik özellikleri bütünle...

• This paper argues that research on teacher professional development could be integrated with validated theoretical models of educational effectiveness research (EER). A dynamic integrated approach (DIA) to teacher professional development is proposed. The methods and results of a study comparing the impact of the DIA and the Holistic Reflective Approach (HA) to teacher professional developmen...

The paper tries to answer the question--to what extent the English Language Teaching theory informs the ELT practice in a reflective case study. It argues that even if it is challenging considering what is beyond the theory in practical use of theory, yet if teacher educators in the field of ELT have a solid academic foundation, they will have the responsibility and capacity to challenge the th...

This essay offers a critical review of some key theoretical issues relevant to second language acquisition and considers the practical implications of these issues on language teaching. The discussion advocates a renewed communicative approach to language pedagogy, which entails the educators’ readiness to act as teacher-researchers, their cautious considerations of individual learner differenc...

Schön (1987) has suggested that professional education undervalues practical knowledge and grants privileged status to intellectual scientific and rational knowledge forms that may only be marginally relevant to practical acting. This is not just an issue of sociology of knowledge. The literature of teaching and teacher education has shown that professional practices of educating cannot be prop...

This study explores student teachers’ discursive voices regarding the meaning of digital case material for their professional learning in teacher education. The analysis of the students’ reflective essays shows that future teachers hold a repertoire of positions via which they inscribe their relationship with technology. These positions are important to acknowledge since they strongly mediate t...