In the context of the active spread of inclusive education in Kazakhstan, it seems important to modernize their training for work in inclusive schools. Accordingly, the problems of effective preparation of teachers to work with inclusive classes have acquired particular relevance. The aim of the proposed study was a comparative study of the…

Children served in early care and education classrooms increasingly represent a variety of racial and cultural backgrounds. Such demographic changes have led to renewed attention to the importance of teachers' preparation and practices with children of color. Despite classroom demographics, early childhood teaching practices in the United States…

Background or Context: Amid a backdrop of increasing deprofessionalization of teaching and teacher education, education researchers and reformers continue to highlight the complexity and expertise of these professions. Expertise-as-process (Bereiter & Scardamalia, 1993) is a conception of expertise that eschews the traditional focus on…

Lesson study is a collaborative and contextualised approach to professional learning that involves small groups of teachers working together to design and reflect on the teaching of a research lesson. Although it is a well-established approach to professional learning in classroom-based subjects, research on its effectiveness within physical…

Framed by the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT), this descriptive phenomenological study described the experiences of general education teachers in inclusive classrooms and teacher preparedness to teach students with learning disabilities. The SCT allowed studying the behavioral, cognitive, and social aspects that helped comprehend teachers'…

The teaching profession has always been a difficult one. This reality has only continued since the COVID-19 school closures as many teachers were attempting to return to "normal." For novice teachers (within their first five years), they did now know what normal was and therefore could not return to it. This group of teachers continue to…

Researchers study teachers' feelings of preparedness to teach for various purposes; it can serve as an indicator of the effectiveness of initial teacher preparation and is often equated to teacher self-efficacy. Despite being an object of study for several decades, the theory on teachers' feelings of preparedness to teach is under-developed and…

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the "lived experience" of choral music teacher educators (MTEs) in hybrid positions at tier 1 research universities. After interviews with eight choral MTEs from across the United States, three themes emerged from our data: inseparable identity components, reciprocity of selves,…

We are a collaborative teaching team at a mid-sized, predominately white institution (PWI), who sought to explore teaching about antiblackness in teacher education. Using an antiblackness theoretical framework we asked: (1) What are our individual and collective curricular responsibilities as marginalized faculty and instructors within this…

The problem addressed by the study was the lack of teacher-directed training in anti-bullying strategies, policies, and applications in classroom management. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenology study was to explore the lived experiences of kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers' attitudes and beliefs about teacher-directed…

This study examines the significance of the world views and life experiences of preservice Latino teachers in the United States as they uncover their untapped potential to address the social, cultural, and political needs of a racially and ethnically diverse student population. Using a qualitative approach that includes in-depth individual…

Turkey is currently home to the world's largest refugee population, with more than 3.7 million Syrians and around 322,000 refugees and asylum-seekers of other nationalities under international protection. Situated in a theory of teacher education for social justice, the current study aims to illustrate the lessons and insights that teacher…

Society's perception, recruitment, and retention of alternative certified teachers entering the education system is a critical issue in Career and Technical Education (CTE) (Heilig, 2007). Although public education is an important factor in our society and the nation's future, fewer college and university students are majoring in education…

This research sought to understand the experiences and perceptions of special education inclusion teachers (SEITs) from an urban county in Central Georgia. The qualitative narrative analysis proposed here aims to give school districts insight into why SEITs leave the field. This study followed a basic qualitative design. Participants were pulled…

Teacher education programs have the dual task of teaching specific subject content while also providing examples of how this content can be taught in schools. This task is especially important, and also problematic, when it comes to technology and science education, where hands-on components such as design/construction exercises, laboratory…