Prospective Teachers’ Representations on the Concept of Force
We present a study on teacher education and, in particular, on Physics. Our assumption is that General Didactics and Disciplinary Didactic constitute two fundamental components of teachers’ professional development and therefore both must be used to ...
Berta Martini +3 more
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Conceptions of Portuguese Prospective Teachers about Real-Life Evolution Situations
The importance of introducing evolution in primary schools has been highlighted in evolution education research, but few studies have approached the understanding of evolution of prospective teachers who are being prepared to teach at primary school ...
Bento Cavadas, Xana Sá-Pinto
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Physics preparation for primary school teachers has received attention only in recent decades. Research on science education provides useful guidelines, often disregarded.
Alessandro Amabile +3 more
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Teachers’ attitudes towards evidence-based teaching: A comparative analysis between prospective teachers and expert teachers in primary education [PDF]
Evidence-based teaching, which outgrows intuitive practices, enables teachers to plan, perform and further develop their teaching methods and approaches in order to provide students with effective learning support in specific learning contexts.
Urška Žerak, Mojca Juriševič
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Prospective primary school teachers’ confidence in teaching disciplinary history
Abstract This study explores how confident prospective teachers felt themselves to teach disciplinary history after a course which focused particularly on teaching historical thinking. The data consist of a survey and two essays by 121 respondents, in-depth interviews with 20 students, and follow-up interviews with eight students. The majority of the
Jukka Rantala, Amna Khawaja
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How to Prepare Disaster Mitigation Knowledge for Prospective Teachers in Elementary School?
Knowledge of disaster mitigation is one of the must-have primary school teacher candidates. The research tries to identify the knowledge of prospective elementary school teachers about natural, non-natural, and social disaster mitigation.
Eddy Noviana +4 more
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PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS UNDERSTANDING FRACTION DIVISION USING RECTANGLE REPRESENTATION
Fraction division is one of the most difficult subjects in elementary school. Not only elementary students but many prospective teachers don’t understand the fraction division concept yet—most of them using a keep-change-flip algorithm to solve fraction ...
Muhammad Ghiyats Ristiana +2 more
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Teaching University Students to Read and Write [PDF]
Recent government initiatives have required universities to include specific literacy and numeracy targets for the students. The authors – both members of the English discipline at Charles Sturt University – were invited to develop and run a two-semester
Daylight, Russell, O'Carroll, John
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Classification and Analysis of Pre-Service Teachers’ Errors in Solving Fermi Problems
Fermi problems are useful for introducing modelling in primary school classrooms, although teachers’ difficulties in problem solving may hinder their successful implementation.
Carlos Segura, Irene Ferrando
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An integrated approach to digital training of prospective primary school teachers
The article emphasizes the importance of information and digital technologies in pre-service training of primary school teachers, substantiates the content and components of information and digital competence of prospective primary school teachers ...
Olga G. Yaroshenko +2 more
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