During the industrial revolution, the quality of education improved, and this was reflected in competent and professional teachers. Teacher professional competence can be achieved by combining personal, scientific, technological, social, and spiritual skills.. This study aims at assessing prospective teachers' professional abilities in developing…

Purpose: The research aims to explore prospective physics teachers' pedagogical knowledge (PK) through an online microteaching lesson study (OMLS). Design/methodology/approach: The study used a case study with eight prospective physics teachers. Various data sources are triangulated involving audiovisual meeting recording, documents from OMLS…

In accelerating fast changing knowledge-based and information societies such like the European Union technology dominates most facets of our everyday lives, and learning activities as well. Unfortunately, particularly seniors and elderly people suffer the risk to be left behind, and that the digital divide becomes bigger. This is problematic…

This article presents the findings of the first phase of a multiyear funded project whose ultimate purpose is to clearly define and then create a video clip library of 8- to 10-minute video clips that demonstrate exemplary teaching practices for working with students who are visually impaired (that is, those who are blind or have low vision).…

This study investigates the impact of CALL training on in-service language teachers' use of CALL-based activities in their classrooms. The participants included 35 pre-service English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers who took an undergraduate-level elective CALL course (FLE318) offered during the 2008-2009 academic year in the Department of…

The purpose of this study was to find how the teacher could help students formulate scientific hypotheses. Data came from two microteaching episodes in which two groups of pre-service secondary science teachers taught high school students as they were engaged in abductive inquiry activities of earth science. Multiple data sources including video…

This document contains a list of 19 research questions completed by the staff of the Teacher Education Program. The ideas are stated in very brief terms, but each idea has behind it a tentative research plan which can be expanded into a design to fit conditions that exist in any given preservice or inservice teacher education setting. The major…

Research in microteaching at the Far West Laboratory for Educational Research and Development resulted in a self-contained instructional package labeled the minicourse. Designed to train the teacher in a microteaching situation with self-evaluation only (providing the feedback normally assigned to a supervisor through evaluation forms), the…

This paper elaborates on a list of procedures contained in an accompanying handout entitled "The 27 Steps in the Development Program." These 27 steps are subsumed under 12 categories: 1) research and information collecting, 2) planning, 3) develop preliminary form of product, 4) preliminary field testing, 5) main product revision, 6) main field…

This paper pulls together the knowledge and insights that have been accumulated in the development of Minicourses. It is expected that the guidelines will be revised and enlarged as new knowledge about this work is accumulated. The guidelines cover the following aspects of Minicourse development: initial planning, the introduction film, the…

The Utah State University Protocol Project has developed six self-instructional modules, each concerned with an important concept related to teacher language. Each module contains a student handbook made up primarily of recognition and application practice lessons based on printed classroom transcripts and an 8- to 10-minute protocol film…

Five European universities engaged in a cooperative program of research and development involving the adaptation of a microteaching unit developed in the U.S. (BD)

Panel discussion presented at the 37th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG), November 27-29, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana. (DS)

The study was designed to find out what kinds of teacher training products were considered most useful by teachers. Twenty-one teachers were asked to evaluate 125 teacher training products divided into various sets by objectives and complexity of training mode and skills required. There was fairly strong agreement on what products were good, with…