Chemical bonding is an important topic which difficult to teach well, especially for novices. This study set out support preservice teacher educators by developing a framework understanding and addressing the complexity of teaching chemical bonding. A model pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) in science education that has been widely endorsed experts field was adopted as theoretical lens. First...

The study investigated the effects of two reflection support programs on elementary school mathematics teachers’ pedagogical problem solving view. Sixty-two teachers participated in a professional development program. Thirty teachers were assigned to the self-questioning (S_Q) training and thirty two teachers were assigned to the reflection discourse (R_D) training. The S_Q program was based on...

The South African life sciences curriculum envisages a teacher who negotiates through controversial issues in the topic of evolution and helps learners reconcile content their religious or cultural aspects. Previous studies have found that teachers are conflicted to teach concepts due socioscientific (SSIs) emanating from sociocultural beliefs those learners. Consequently, current paper reports...

Although trigonometry is an important section in secondary school mathematics curricula, many teachers find it challenging to teach as a result of insufficient pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). Therefore, the aim this article was report on how PCK manifests itself teachers' practice. This exploratory case study underpinned by for teaching (MKT) model Hill et al. (2008). Twelve were purposefu...

Teachers’ knowledge for implementing constructivist instruction with technology is termed as their constructivist-oriented technological pedagogical content knowledge. There are currently no available surveys for understanding teachers’ perceptions in this aspect. Therefore, teachers’ perceived knowledge gaps in terms of constructivist-oriented technology integration are not well understood. Us...

When considering the present and future of education, it is hard to ignore importance teachers' subject-matter expertise. Educators' pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) crucial development effective teaching practises implementation curricula. Since PCK permits integration pedagogy, has potential have a profound long-lasting effect on students' academic performance. For educators do their jobs ...