The quality of education depends on the quality of technology. Information and communication technology (ICT) has become popular within a very short time one of the basic building blocks of modern society. The present study was aim to find out the perception of teacher trainees towards learning through information and communication technologies. The objectives of the study were to find out the ...

This article reports on the working conditions within Swedish ICT-supported distancebased teacher education. Data collected from teacher trainees are analysed and discussed in relation to Swedish governmental policies concerning teacher education and distance education and theories emphasising the importance of social aspects of education. The findings indicate working conditions that are mainl...

Teacher education programs can play a principal role in helping prospective teachers to acquire requisite knowledge and skills. Vital to the issue of teacher education is the efficient evaluation of such programs in promoting prospective teachers’ knowledge base. However, the literature contains very few reports of the evaluation of the Iranian EFL preservice teacher education program, which is...

Teacher training programs should provide evidence that they are preparing teacher trainees for their teaching career. However, the literature contains few evaluation reports of the layout of the pre-service EFL teacher training program in Iranian EFL context, a gap which this study tries to fill. The participants of the study were high school EFL teachers (n = 346), teacher trainees (n = 97) an...

Kiss Z. Lower primary school teacher trainees’ and pupils’ interactions on PE lessons. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 8, No. Proc2, pp. S1-S9, 2013. Teaching activities on PE lessons are quite different from the ones on other lessons because of the interactions while teaching activities. One of the main characteristic features is that pupils answer the teacher with motor activity, so lesson work is ...

IP 95-1 Page 1 This is the story of teacher trainees in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) alternative training program during a labor dispute. The individual stories highlight the stress a labor dispute places on prospective teachers who are not yet full-time teachers but also not the traditional transitory student teachers from a university teacher education program. In the dispu...

The use of ICTs (information and communication technologies) in Zimbabwe’s teacher education colleges is of paramount importance. The teacher trainees have a dual role to play: learning through ICTs and also learning how to teach through them. Interestingly, the rate at which schools have embraced the use of ICTs is unprecedented, but this has not been matched with an equal effort by teacher ed...

Reflective teaching methodology involves questioning one own self to bring perfection by asking the following questions: • Which teaching model am I using? • How does it apply in specific teaching situations? • How well is it working? Teacher educator should apply this theory in classroom practice, in order observe and reflects on the results so that the classroom becomes a kind of laboratory w...

Introduction. Few studies have addressed teacher trainees’ information acquisition in the context of a task. The paper reports findings from an empirical study on teacher trainees’ use of information (seeking) channels and sources, and their modes of information acquisition in lesson planning. Method. Semi-structured (retrospectively held) individual interviews and supporting classroom observat...