Professional development is critical in providing constant updates on EFL teachers’ teaching practice. This mixed methods study was conducted to explore the effects of participation in action research on EFL teachers’ practice. Eighteen junior school English teachers participated in this study. Teacher participants conducted their action research during a five-month period. The quantitative pha...

This study introduces a “Technology Integration Model” for a learning environment utilizing constructivist learning principles and integrating new technologies namely computers and the Internet into pre-service teacher training programs. The technology integrated programs and learning environments may assist learners to gain experiences using technologies for purposes like constructing new know...

Currently, teacher education colleges in Tanzania are being equipped with computers to prepare teachers who can integrate technology in teaching. Despite these efforts, teachers are not embracing the use of technology in their teaching. This study adopted Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) as a framework for describing the knowledge and skills that pre-service teachers need to ...

"W~1T That teachers actually learn %/%/ from different kinds of T T teacher education programs has been the focus of a large scale study at the National Center for Research on Teacher Learning. Known as the Teacher Education and Learning to Teach (TELT) study, this project exam ined not only preservice and inservice programs, but also induction programs and alternative routes. In each of the pr...

instruction that teachers bring to their students; therefore, preparing new teachers well is crucial to student achievement (Chetty, Friedman, & Rockoff, 2014; Rivkin, Hanushek, & Kain, 2005; Rockoff, 2004). Recent research on graduates of teacher preparation programs suggests that some programs are producing new teachers who are more capable than others (Boyd, Grossman, Lankford, Loeb, & Wycko...

Education is an effort designed to achieve the goals that have been set improve quality of human resources. One these efforts go through a learning process. In educational resources, teachers are component resources must be fostered and developed continuously. The establishment teacher profession carried out pre-service education programs in-service programs. Not all who educate in institutions...

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...

This commentary was written in response to the Rink (2013), McKenzie and Lounsbery (2013), and Ward (2013) articles published earlier on teacher effectiveness in physical education (PE). The historical analyses of teacher effectiveness research in PE (TER-PE) presented in those 3 articles are briefly described, particularly as they represent a collective agenda in the first 3 decades in this li...

abstract background: to get intersectoral collaborations is one of the strategies considered for the goal of health for all by the year 2000 which has been emphasized in the 21th century again. if the members of local organizations are more satisfied, they will collaborate in the improvement of health programs more. this study was performed to assess the satisfaction rate of the members of loca...