Today’s technology standards (International Society for Technology in Education, 2000) challenge teacher education programs across the nation to address the need to produce computer literate teachers who are confident in their ability to choose and incorporate instructional technology into their classroom teaching. The purpose of this paper is to present a description and analysis of the effect...

The attitudes held by pre-service teachers have been shown to affect their willingness and ability to implement an inclusive approach to education. A sample consisting of 193 pre-service secondary teachers enrolled in secondary education courses at an Australian university were surveyed to determine their attitudes towards inclusive education, with a particular focus on attitudinal changes acro...

Current models for teacher education are not delivering enough teachers of sufficient quality across the developing world (UNSECO, 2015). In 2005, UNESCO suggested that ‘Training models for teachers should be reconsidered in many countries to strengthen the school-based pre-and in-service training rather than rely on lengthy traditional, institutional pre-service training’ (p3). Increasingly, m...

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...