This study examined teachers’ experience of autonomous motivation for teaching and its correlates in teachers and students. It was hypothesized that teachers would perceive various motivations posited by E. L. Deci and R. M. Ryan’s (2000) self-determination theory as falling along a continuum of autonomous motivation for teaching. Autonomous motivation for teaching was predicted to be associate...

Learning to teach is difficult for prospective teachers because of the complex nature of the work of teaching. Practicing (Lampert 2010), interacting with the practice of teaching from a first-person perspective, may give them a unique experience in learning to teach. Computer-based simulators in which the apprentice teacher can interact with virtual students may be used to create that kind of ...

This study investigates how the undergraduate Learning Assistant (LA) experience affects teachers’ first year of teaching. The LA Program provides interested science majors with the opportunity to explore teaching through weekly teaching responsibilities, an introduction to physics education research, and a learning community within the university. Some of these LAs are recruited to secondary s...

This paper reports on an investigation of the teaching context of first-year Information and Communications Technology (ICT) courses at Australian universities and the influences of this on students’ learning experiences. This is part of a larger project which aimed to identify and disseminate good practices in ICT teaching at Australian universities with a specific focus on the first-year expe...

This paper documents efforts to develop an instrument to measure mathematical knowledge for teaching high school geometry (MKT-G). We report on the process of developing and piloting questions that purported to measure various domains of MKT-G. Scores on the final set of items had no statistical relationship with total years of experience teaching, but all domain scores were found to have stati...

The author’s experience in designing and teaching an introduction to educational psychology course on-line to 23 undergraduate education majors is discussed in this paper. Due to the curricular content of this course (i.e., the psychology of teaching and learning), critical issues about the similarities and differences of teaching and learning within traditional classrooms and electronic enviro...

This article describes the peer-teaching strategy applied in the gross anatomy course to first year medical students at the San Juan Bautista School of Medicine.

• promote usage of Ada • being convinced that my students can learn a lot from studying Ada … for this Contribution • promote the inclusion of teaching topics in this conference series • encourage teachers to use Ada even under difficult circumstances • Just a personal experience report No claim that the presented method of teaching is better (in what sense?) than yours • Just a personal experi...