Within the last fifteen years, many colleges of the province of Quebec in Canada have been faced with low admission rates in some less popular technical programs. The increased financial burden for these institutions and the enhanced task burden for teachers working with small groups of students threaten the quality of teaching and learning. In order to cope with this situation, computer-mediat...

In this study, we investigated the professional identities of 490 pre-service teachers (PSTs) at University Hamburg, Germany. By distributing 100 percentage points, PSTs assessed relevance roles subject specialist (SS), didactician (DD), and pedagogue (PD) for themselves currently (actual identity) an ideal teacher in different school types (designated identity). A theory-based non-hierarchical...

This paper illustrates consideration of multiple facets of mathematics teacher knowledge through interviews, demonstrates how teachers have different knowledge profiles, and discusses the implications for professional development. This study focuses on interviews with eight teachers, which were analyzed using Ball, Thames, and Phelps’ (2008) framework of teacher knowledge, assigning knowledge t...

The identity of a rural teacher refers to the individual teacher’s perception and recognition their teaching role in different contexts. This study focuses on English teachers elementary schools, using questionnaire explore current status quo from four aspects: environmental, professional, social personal identity. Also, uncovers crisis propose solutions. results show that level among is relati...

With the proliferation of educational reform policies and strategies, the need for high quality professional development (PD) has emerged as one of the most important areas for research in education, particularly in determining the relationship between PD and student learning outcomes (Borko, 2004). Although research has begun to focus on the defining characteristics of quality PD, little has b...

Research on pre-service music teacher occupational identity often highlights two competing identities: performer and teacher (L‟Roy, 1983; Roberts, 1991; Pellegrino, 2009). Of the many factors that contribute to the occupational identity of the pre-service music teacher (Woodford, 2002), conducting has the potential to integrate performer and teacher identities. Previous research indicates that...

Singapore students boast stellar performance at international benchmarking studies such as PISA and TIMSS. One of the major contributors to the consistently good performance in mathematics and science is the quality of our science teacher education in Singapore. Through a consistent, systematic and continuous system, there is a seamless transition of pre-service teacher education to continuing ...