This article contributes to our understanding of teacher education by presenting the results of a large pilot study of quality assessments of teacher education programs at three Norwegian universities. We present an assessment instrument that corresponds to the California Standards for Teaching Professions and the practice domains developed by Darling-Hammond. The research question is: To what ...

The article discusses the process of formation a digital culture teacher in context digitalization education, presents working definition concept “digital future teacherˮ. In our study, we identified structural components culture: motivational-value, cognitive, instrumental, communicative, moral-ethical and reflective, which are formed professional development teacher. Based on structure, an au...

Teacher education is deemed to play a critical role in revolutionizing any education system. As a result, pre-service teacher education has received considerable attention in education systems world over. In the context of Iran, the process of teacher education has not been properly implemented and following their being recruited teachers would go directly to classes, without possessing adequat...

The functions of teacher leaders and educators, what they do, are critical in education. This article presents the seemingly unexamined concept that some leaders’ practice includes a educator dimension. Evidence supports this claim is provided by exploring interrelationship between leader using focused analysis literature findings from qualitative research. research investigated impact professi...

This article addresses how the professional identity of a teacher is constructed through narrative with two intended goals: 1) to examine the ways in which theories of teacher education are embedded in professional identity, and 2) to suggest the inclusion of individual narrative analysis as a reflective tool in professional development and teacher education. A teacher’s spontaneous conversatio...

The purpose of this thesis was to explore the critical thinking demonstrated within student teacher blog posts as student teachers discussed and reflected in an online community of practice during their student teaching experiences, and to determine the critical thinking demonstrated within student teaching blog posts as the blog posts related to the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Suppor...

This paper describes a model for generating and accumulating knowledge for both teaching and teacher education. The model is applied first to prepare prospective teachers to learn to teach mathematics when they enter the classroom. The concept of treating lessons as experiments is used to explicate the intentional, rigorous, and systematic process of learning to teach through studying one’s own...