International Portal of Teacher Education
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The year 2020 was one of unprecedented uncertainty for initial teacher education (ITE) with newly qualified teachers (NQTs) entering schools in the summer of 2020 still disrupted by COVID-19.
Unfortunately, these disruptions have continued into 2021.
This study explored the advice a group of NQTs have for student-teachers graduating during the disruptions to education caused by COVID-19.
Through the use of a qualitative online survey, NQTs were asked to provide advice to student-teachers graduating this year.
The findings provide three pieces of advice for ITE graduates:
(1) Be mentally prepared;
(2) Be practically prepared; and
(3) Be flexible and adaptable.
It is hoped that the advice provided by NQTs will help ITE graduates feel better prepared to begin teaching during uncertain times. More
Published: 2021
Updated: Apr. 05, 2022
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This study explores the professional learning of ten pre-service teachers from Hong Kong and ten host teachers in a school in China who participated in a teaching abroad project.
The participants’ professional learning during the project is conceptualised within five knowledge domains of quality teaching for the twenty-first century:
personal, contextual, pedagogical, sociological and social.
The findings suggest that by immersing pre-service teachers in an unfamiliar teaching environment, they can learn professional knowledge for teaching in an increasingly complex world. This complements the knowledge they are acquiring in their domestic courses and practicums.
Furthermore, through the pedagogical exchange of ideas, the host teachers are also found to benefit. The authors recommend that teaching abroad opportunities be included in initial teacher education (ITE) programmes and that host teachers’ professional learning are considered in their development. More
Published: 2021
Updated: Jul. 28, 2021
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This In Practice paper reports on an autoethnographic study based on the author’s 12-week teaching practicum experience in two secondary schools in an initial teacher education programme to professionally develop himself as a teacher educator.
As a novice teacher educator, the author took on the role as a student teacher in the practicum.
Through ongoing dialogues with different stakeholders in schools and the author’s own reflective self, the practicum experience provided an opportunity for the author to understand the tension between theory and practice, learn to give feedback as a teaching practicum supervisor and facilitate the development of schools.
This paper offers implications on the benefits of engaging in self-study such as autoethnography in the school context for novice teacher educators to understand the educational reality and professional lives of schoolteachers as well as professionally develop themselves in their teacher education career. More
Published: 2020
Updated: Jan. 25, 2021
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This qualitative multi-case study explores a group of university-based language teacher educators’ boundary crossing experiences in Hong Kong.
Informed by a conceptual framework on boundary crossing and drawing on data from in-depth interviews and field observations, the findings reveal the opportunities and challenges embedded in teacher educators’ boundary crossing between university and schools, between the teacher education and academic community, and between local and external contexts.
The study contributes new knowledge to our understanding of teacher educators’ boundary crossing through two different forms, i.e., horizontal and hierarchical, as they navigate sociocultural differences between various communities.
The paper concludes with practical implications on how to promote teacher educators’ continuing development in university settings. More
Published: 2020
Updated: Oct. 23, 2020
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Lesson Study and Learning Study are popular teacher professional development models across the world.
Drawing on an extensive review of research and literature, this paper aims to identify the features of the two models to contrast and establish their similarities and differences particularly with regard to their application in practice.
The paper focuses on their impact on teaching and learning as well as the rationale behind the process of Lesson Study and Learning Study.
Four major distinctions between the two models are revealed: ways of identifying a topic for teaching, views and methods for understanding student learning, the focus of teacher collaboration on lesson design and implementation, and the overall instructional design.
The paper concludes that the two models appeal to different practitioners depending on their aims and objectives in teaching and learning as well as their broader perspectives on education.
In addition, this paper suggests that the two models could complement each other to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning in different contexts. More
Published: 2019
Updated: Apr. 19, 2020
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This paper reports on a qualitative case study that investigated the reasons why one group of graduates from an initial teacher education (ITE) program in Hong Kong chose not to teach.
Using in-depth interviews and grounded in a theory of teacher identity construction, the results reveal how the participants struggled to construct their preferred professional identities, in particular during a teaching practicum, and the role this played in their decision not to enter the teaching profession.
Implications for how teacher educators can better support preservice teachers as they struggle to construct their professional identities are considered and suggestions for future research are discussed. More
Published: 2019
Updated: Mar. 08, 2020
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This study examined Hong Kong pre-service early childhood teachers’ attitudes towards different types of parental involvement strategies and investigated whether these attitudes were related to the quality of relationships within their own family.
Data were collected by the authors from 163 Hong Kong pre-service early childhood teachers via questionnaire.
Results showed that engaging families in school decisions was perceived as the least important and feasible.
The pre-service teachers also felt least confident in implementing it.
There were, however, discrepancies in the perceived levels of importance, feasibility and confidence towards other types of parental involvement strategies.
The levels of cohesion and expressiveness in pre-service teachers’ own families were positively related to their attitudes towards some types of parental involvement strategies.
These findings suggest that teacher educators should take pre-service teachers’ family experiences into consideration when preparing them to work with children’s families. More
Published: 2019
Updated: Jan. 21, 2020
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This report introduces a way of engaging preservice teachers in experiential learning activities to enrich their pedagogical content knowledge and skills.
The framework suggested can be applied to instruction in a wide range of disciplines in different contexts.
It calls on teacher educators to work on similar experiential learning initiatives to equip novice teachers with the necessary pedagogies and competence for their future careers. More
Published: 2019
Updated: Jan. 13, 2020
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The purpose of this study was to examine what effective strategies for managing student behavior meant to the teachers through their classroom experiences. The findings revealed that the participants commonly used eight strategies to manage student misbehavior, of which seven were perceived to be effective, i.e., rules-setting, hinting, directive statements, punishment, after class talks, relationship building, and instructional engagement. More
Published: 2016
Updated: Dec. 13, 2018
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This study examined the motivation to teach and the commitment to teaching among prospective student teachers from mainland China and their Hong Kong counterparts.
The findings suggest that the individuals’ commitment to teaching was mediated by immediate contextual factors, closely related to their imagined teaching identity.
These factors were also shaped by their socio-economic backgrounds, and constructed by social discourses on teachers and the teaching profession.
The authors conclude that this research sheds lights on how to sustain non-local prospective student teachers’ motivation to teach and commitment to teaching.
This study also highlights how to ensure their full participation in teaching practices after graduation, and how to retain young qualified teachers in the teaching profession, in educational settings elsewhere. More
Published: 2012
Updated: Feb. 22, 2018