The U.S. educational system invests heavily, in both time and money, in continuing education for teachers. In this article Heather Hill examines the effectiveness of two forms of teacher learning-graduate coursework and professional development. She focuses first on graduate education. Almost half of all teachers have a master's degree. Many states allow graduate coursework to count toward rece...

Technological developments have altered pedagogies in classroom teaching but approaches to teacher professional development have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to describe an evolving learning process that spans the last decade and draws from three different investigations into professional development. The author compares and contrasts the key findings from two indepe...

Gifted education is not provided in many rural schools. Some teacher educators believe that one of the reasons for this is that gifted teachers and gifted teacher training programs are oriented to provide education applicable only to urban and suburban settings. This paper presents the results of a survey of representatives of teacher training institutions offering gifted education programs. Th...

The study examines the attitudes and past experiences of pre-service teachers and teacher educators in Taiwan and the U.S. regarding the use of Web2Quests to promote multicultural education. The demographics in many countries are increasingly changing, especially regarding the growth of students from diverse backgrounds. In all classrooms, teachers need to have high levels of multicultural comp...

Rapid technological development in the last decade makes it easier than ever to use technologies as collaborative learning tools. Computer video conferencing as a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) technology provides increasing opportunities for learners to share experiences across time and space. The following describes how multipoint desktop video conferencing (MDVC) is used in...

Trauma-informed care (TIC) is the practice of consciousness and awareness trauma that guides educators in developing academic behavioral support for students with exceptionalities who have experienced trauma. TIC can from lens Positive Behavioral Intervention Supports (PBIS) Social Emotional Learning (SEL) within Multi-Tiered Systems Support (MTSS). The purpose this article to explore integrati...

This paper presents a case study of an academic course for preservice computer science teachers that focus on teaching the discipline. The paper specifies and explains the rationale behind the development of the course and its explicit objectives. Achievement of the objectives is explained by describing the subject and content of the lessons, the types of activities integrated into the lessons ...