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Gasteiger, Hedwig; Brunner, Esther; Chen, Ching-Shu – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
Results of international comparison studies show substantially better mathematics performance of the investigated Asian than European students from the early years on. A Taiwanese-German Research Program (TaiGer) engages in exploring differences and similarities in the educational system, in teachers' knowledge and beliefs and in teaching or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Mathematics Instruction, Early Childhood Education
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Lu, Hsiu-Lien; Soares, Lina – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
The idea to prepare prospective teachers to teach in increasingly diverse US schools still raises a number of questions about how an international student teaching experience can be important and beneficial to student learning. What do preservice teachers perceive to be the benefits from an international student teaching experience? What do…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Student Teaching, International Educational Exchange
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Chang, Te-Sheng; Lin, Huei-Hsuan; Song, Mei-Mei – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2011
The purpose of this study was to investigate faculty members' perceptions of teaching efficacy and their relation to faculty members' backgrounds. A questionnaire measuring six dimensions of teaching efficacy was distributed to faculty members at 17 universities in Taiwan, yielding 513 complete sets of responses. Faculty members felt efficacious,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Classroom Techniques, Preservice Teacher Education, Universities
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Golombek, Paula; Jordan, Stefanie Rehn – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2005
How do international speakers of English assert their identities as legitimate teachers of English given the privileged position of the native speaker? To answer this question, we present case studies of two students from Taiwan in their first year of study in a 2-year master of arts in TESOL (MATESOL) program. The data included interviews after…
Descriptors: Masters Degrees, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Preservice Teacher Education
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Lin, Huey-Ling; Gorrell, Jeffrey; Silvern, Steven B. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2001
Used content analysis and grounded theory methods to examine professional beliefs about teaching and learning among 298 Taiwanese early childhood preservice teachers. Found that beliefs can be organized systematically to construct useful patterns of interrelationships among belief components, such as teachers' roles, images of classroom practice,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Childhood Needs, College Students, Content Analysis
Lin, Yu-Wei; Spodek, Bernard – 1994
The term "image" has been employed in various ways to describe the practical knowledge teachers have derived from their own experiences. These images grounded in personal experience are also assumed to guide student teachers' thoughts and actions in the classroom. Adopting a case study method, this study examined two early childhood…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Cognitive Structures, Context Effect