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Dixon, Helen; Ward, Gillian – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
Postgraduate study provides teachers with opportunities to become critical consumers of research as well as generators of their own knowledge, enabling them to fulfil the mandate of teaching being a research informed and evidenced based profession (Robinson, 2003). This article pays attention to 18 practicing teachers' reasons for undertaking a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Masters Programs, Masters Degrees, Teacher Attitudes
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Sharplin, Erica J.; Stahl, Garth; Kehrwald, Ben – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
This article reports on pre-service teachers' experience of the Real-Time Coaching model, an innovative technology-based approach to teacher training. The Real-Time Coaching model uses multiple feedback cycles via wireless technology to develop within pre-service teachers the specific skills and mindset toward continual improvement. Results of…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Preservice Teachers, Technology Uses in Education, Feedback (Response)
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Morrison, Chad M. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2016
The purposes of professional experience within initial teacher education programs are varied (Russell, 2005). However, there is limited literature explaining (a) university-based teacher educators' beliefs about its purposes and (b) how these purposes are reflected in practice. This study investigated these themes. A pragmatic mixed-method…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Theory Practice Relationship
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Bate, Frank G.; Day, Lorraine; Macnish, Jean – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
In 2010, the Australian Commonwealth government initiated an $8m project called Teaching Teachers for the Future. The aim of the project was to engage teacher educators in a professional learning network which focused on optimising exemplary use of information and communications technologies in teacher education. By taking part in this network,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
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Petrie, Kirsten; McGee, Clive – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2012
One of the challenges in in-service teacher education is how teachers can be given professional development (PD) that enables them to respond to national curriculum and policy change. In recent years primary teachers in New Zealand have been inundated with Ministry of Education-funded professional development programmes to help them implement a…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries
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Uusimaki, Liisa – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
Positive relationship building between the university and the schools that receive their pre-service teachers are crucial to developing quality educators fit for the teaching profession. This paper presents an overview of a mentor workshop that was introduced by the professional experience unit of a regional university in Australia. The aim of the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mentors, Teacher Workshops