Teaching is a complex endeavor that requires deep knowledge of content, pedagogy, and students. Educational stakeholders design teacher competence frameworks to outline the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that teachers need to have to improve their teaching activity. These competence frameworks are guided by research and theory and tend to…

This study contributes to the field of research on teacher self-efficacy by investigating a group of multilingual pre-service teachers' perceptions of self-efficacy in Norwegian mathematics classrooms. In recent years, several quantitative studies exploring teacher self-efficacy have been conducted, but according to Xenofontos and Andrews (2020)…

This qualitative research explored students' perceptions of classroom wellbeing and examined its impact on student learning. Participants consisted of twelve students from Samtse College of Education, selected using a purposive sampling technique. The data points were semi-structured interviews and classroom observations and were analysed using a…

We describe three major challenges that teachers of STEM subjects face in their preparation and practice. Then, we discuss how technology could become a vehicle for providing timely and content-related support. To this end, we suggest a theoretical framework, which builds on the works of Vygotsky, Shulman, and Mishra and Koehler. Specifically, we…

This conceptual paper is intended to highlight the need for instructional support for teachers and academic lecturers who enter the profession without formal pedagogy training, and discuss how this phenomenon can be addressed via healthy collegial practices and institutional support. The paper also emphasizes the need for those who enter the…

Most European Union countries and members of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) are facing increasing learner diversity in schools and are accommodating increasing numbers of children from ethnic minority and/or migrant backgrounds. International surveys from OECD indicate that teachers are in need of professional…

The quality of teacher education is closely related to the quality of teacher educators. High quality teacher education requires that teacher educators possess relevant knowledge and skills, professional experiences, and commitment. It also can be assumed that the quality of graduate-level education influences the quality of teacher education…

Developing high levels of mathematical skills in students is a concern for teachers worldwide, since most of the fastest growing occupations require significant mathematics or science preparation. Teachers need to be prepared to teach mathematics successfully. If teachers are not fluent in simple mathematical calculations, they may not feel…

Early childhood educators are faced with many important tasks in their day to day activities which include caring, stimulating, and instructing for young learners. The implementation of these tasks require certain competences which the teachers must possess in order to be effective in discharging their duties and to provide for quality early…

With the dramatic rise of diversity in American schools, the need to prepare teachers to work with this population, and the increasing popularity of online instruction, teacher educators and researchers need to pay greater attention to the effects of online instruction. This study examines and compares the impact of a critical multicultural…

Describes the current situation of teacher education in Hong Kong, focusing on: the education system and its basic structure (governance, structure, and provision); the teaching profession (teacher registration and entry into the profession, inservice and preservice teacher education, and teacher education provision); and new trends to improve…