This paper addresses the question of how teachers learn from experience during their pre-service course and early years of teaching. It outlines a theoretical framework that may help us better understand how teachers’ professional identities emerge in practice. The framework adapts Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, and Valsiner’s Zone of Free Movement and Zone of Promoted Action, to the ...

This article reports on the role of teacher education in curriculum reform basic Myanmar. There was political change Myanmar, a transition from military administration to democracy 2010. Political impacts various sectors such as economic, and health. As system changed meet international standards, were updated. In previous Myanmar that has progressed old monastic current modern education, there...

Over the past decade online learning initiatives have shown tremendous potential for broadening educational opportunities and for addressing local and regional shortages of highly qualified K–12 teachers. The Louisiana Algebra I Online initiative represents one type of online model than can address both the need for improving course offerings and for addressing teacher shortages. The goal of th...

This study examined the classroom practice and beliefs of two novice teachers, Anne and Rachel, during their first year of teaching and during the first year of their involvement in Project PRIME, a district-wide professional development project. The research also analysed the challenges faced by the novice teachers and the professional developer who worked with them. Using accounts of practice...

In modern educational system reform in Russia, there is a deepening contradiction between the required and real level of professional competence teachers. One way to overcome this systematic development teaching staff implemented with help distance learning technologies (DLT). means ensure high quality training course evaluation by trainees. It allows for motivation training, understand directi...

This paper has four objectives. First, to conceptually link studies of principled judgment reasoning to recent efforts by national teacher accrediting bodies to include professional dispositions as a teacher education program goal. Second, the investigator reports four-year longitudinal results of a character development study of teacher education students as measured by principled judgment rea...

In this paper it is our intention to discuss a Teacher Education proposal that uses an on line asynchronous learning environment to develop collaborative practices and to enhance a professional identity. Using an integrated multi-method approach for analysing the on line discussions of 47 student-teachers, a research group of the University of Padua has explored: a) how different groups of stud...

In their contribution to Perspectives on Medical Education, Ng, Baker, and Leslie provide a novel and clear perspective on faculty development in health profession education (HPE) by conceptualizing it as a space for sharing research and practical knowledge [1]. The process of sharing these two types of knowledge implies that both are mobilized during faculty development and, in the end, become...