To understand what to improve in initial teacher education to better prepare teachers for their profession, we asked alumni (N = 93) from three Swedish initial teacher education programs, what in their education they thought had benefited them the most in preparing them for a teaching career, and what they thought was lacking given their…

This study aimed to investigate how the use of practicum portfolios impacts early childhood student teachers' reflective practice in Palestine. The study utilized qualitative and quantitative methods to gather and analyze student teachers' perspectives on using practicum portfolios for their professional development. The main focus was to…

The process of learning and teaching involves the organization of the interaction among teachers, students, and content. The focus of this study was to enable the student teachers' experience of deliberate practice to improve their organization of specific content and develop practice skills in classroom environments. This study, which adopted a…

Motivating students to endure teacher education and enter teaching is a pressing challenge in many countries. We address this challenge by exploring the concept of "situational interest" (SI) in teacher education and students' interest in teaching. Survey data was collected from Norwegian student teachers (N = 347) using a…

Progress in educational research and theory has led to the recognition that teachers need to integrate culturally responsive pedagogy practices into their instructional teaching to make genuine relationships with their students. The purpose of this study was to identify the extent to which Michigan teacher candidates were familiar with CRT…

Technology-enhanced language learning has exerted positive effects on the performance and engagement of L2 learners. Since the advent of tools based on recent advancement in artificial intelligence (AI), educators have made major strides in applying state-of-the-art technologies to writing classrooms. In November 2022, an AI-powered chatbot named…

This classroom assessment article shares the findings of a practicum-based undergraduate organizational communication course using interactive management research (IMR). IMR is a participatory action research methodology that fosters group design thinking to envision perceived pathways for collectively organizing to address a social issue. The…

The 2020 COVID lockdown provoked the early childhood team at Manukau Institute of Technology to radically rethink how practicum was assessed. The usual approach of an "in-centre" observation followed by a triadic discussion was replaced by weekly "virtual" meetings and an online triadic. A reflective framework was developed to…

This paper reports on the development of six student teachers' knowledge of instructional strategies (KOIS) for teaching proportions during a 2-month practicum in China. Development of four subcomponents was explored through Content Representation (CoRe) questionnaires and follow-up interviews. Data was analysed deductively and levels of each…

Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) begins to develop during teacher education and the teaching practicum reinforces its development. This study is an interpretive inquiry into pre-service mathematics teachers' practicum classrooms. The study explored four pre-service mathematics teachers' PCK through observations and interviews. The pre-service…

Teachers' beliefs can be seen as psychological seeds planted in teachers' minds. Teachers' beliefs about effective inquiry-based teaching impact their intentions, instructional designs, and actions required for inquiry-based lessons. This paper discusses how to help Thai preservice science teachers who engaged in their student-teaching practicum…

This case study attempts to explore the impact of the reflective practices (reflection in, on, and for action) on pre-service science teachers' (PSTs') classroom teaching practices. To this end, ten PSTs majoring in Science Teacher Education Program participated in this study. In the study, the author designed a classroom teaching practice process…

Topic-specific pedagogical content knowledge (TSPCK) enables teachers to transform pedagogically difficult content for specific science topics into forms more easily understood by learners. In science teaching, there is evidence pointing to poor learner performance in key chemistry topics such as stoichiometry. This paper reports on the changes in…

Online courses are growing rapidly in K-12, but teachers often receive no preparation for teaching in these environments. While field experiences in virtual schools may be useful, very few teacher education programs offer such an opportunity and there is very little research on the design and effectiveness of such an approach. In this design case…

Facilitating productive mathematical discussions is considered a core practice of mathematics education. The complexity of this teaching practice presents the need for pedagogical tools to provide structure for preservice teachers (PST) developing their practice, yet little is known about "how" PSTs use these tools. This multiple case…