Extensive literature discusses mentoring in teacher education as a means to advance its professionalization. This study explored mentoring from the perspectives of student teachers, teacher educators, and school mentors. It analyzed four case studies conducted in two teacher-education colleges in Cambodia through observation and listening to…

The purpose of this study was to measure the impact of a year-long professional development plan designed to support K-3 teachers in two elementary schools in making shifts to align instructional practices with the science of reading. This mixed methods approach incorporated an action research design to answer the following research questions:…

Teachers' skills in the learning and teaching process both offline and online are crucial to creating an effective learning environment, and one such skill is classroom management. Aiming to investigate the factors that influence teacher skills in classroom management, this study involved 363 elementary school teachers in a quantitative survey.…

Australian universities are mandated to implement non-academic on-entry evaluations for all initial teacher education candidates. Universities have introduced interviews, written applications, psychometric tests, and more recently, simulation. This research sought to determine if simulation as an evaluation tool had utility as a measure of…

Background: Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies offer unique capabilities for preservice teachers (PSTs) to engage in authentic and real-time interactions using natural language. However, the impact of AI technology on PSTs' responsive teaching skills remains uncertain. Objectives: The primary objective of this study is to examine whether…

The aim of the study is to examine the correlation between innate (neuroticism and openness) and environmental (self-esteem and emotional regulation strategies) personality traits and the attitudes' assessment toward active listening (AL) among early childhood educators in Israel. Accordingly, this study presents a multipath analysis model…

Literacy is an essential human right that serves as the basis for advancing one's education. Literacy education focuses on two key areas: foundational reading and reading comprehension skills. The five foundational literacy skills are phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency, and reading comprehension. Providing students with direct…

Early childhood teachers are critical in promoting young children's STEM learning. However, research indicates that early childhood teachers are unfamiliar with STEM and do not have confidence in their abilities and skills to implement STEM education. Despite this issue, previous research has focused less on early childhood teachers' STEM…

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore how early childhood teachers describe their self-efficacy regarding their ability to teach social and emotional skills to young children. It is important that young children develop social-emotional skills to help them navigate through the early learning years. Since young children…

This study investigates the role of information technology (IT) professional certifications in IT instructors' teaching quality in higher education institutions (HEIs) in Tanzania. The study was conducted at the Institute of Accountancy Arusha (IAA) involving IT academic staff with at least one IT professional certification. The study used a case…

Teachers' confidence in navigating the complexities of 'being a teacher' influence their behaviour, how they are perceived, how they make sense of their environment and circumstances and their successes. A web-based survey was developed and distributed to music teachers via an online community of practice. This paper reports on the respondents'…

This article analyses ECEC staffs' perspectives on the in-service professional development (PD) process aimed at improving the quality of interaction in ECEC, inspired by the Caregiver Interaction Profile (CIP) scales. The study draws on theories and research on PD and ECEC quality and falls within a pragmatic paradigm, using qualitative…

This study aims to investigate the perspectives of primary school teachers in South Africa, who participated in a "Lesson Study" (LS) project, on this professional development process and about their professional learning. The study followed a mixed approach, with data collected through a questionnaire, followed up by interviews. A novel…

This study investigates teacher learning and professional development in school-university partnership in Myanmar. This study explores teacher learning and professional development through engaging in a school-university partnership through mentoring activity. Research studies have shown mentoring can improve teachers' learning and professional…

This paper presents a mixed-method investigation of client's perceptions of a good adventure sports coach. Semi-structured interviews were analysed thematically, and the findings used to inform a subsequent larger survey that sought to verify the importance of the themes identified in the interviews. The findings draw an alignment between the…