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Larissa McLean Davies – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
In 2022, after two years of the COVID virus profoundly interrupting social connection, learning, work and human mobility, governments worldwide turned material and rhetorical attention to life 'post-pandemic'. Understandably, teachers who were central in keeping communities virtually connected during the pandemic--are positioned as core to a…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Creative Teaching
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Ruth Wallace; Ros Sambell; Shih Ching Fu; Johnny Lo; Elizabeth J. Cook; Amanda Devine – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2025
This study evaluated the effectiveness of an online short course based on the Health Promoting Schools Framework and specifically designed for Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) professionals. The short course aimed to enhance ECEC professionals' nutrition knowledge, confidence, role legitimacy and adequacy to model healthy behaviours,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Inservice Teacher Education
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Wescott, Stephanie – Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, 2021
Post-truthism entered mainstream consciousness after being named "Oxford Dictionary's" word of the year in 2016, denoting a turn in the Western relationship with truth as a certain and indisputable object. Simultaneously, and paradoxically, rising distrust around teachers' professional judgement and a desire for certainty in practice saw…
Descriptors: English Teachers, Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Evidence Based Practice
Livy, Sharyn; Yanni, Marie; Downton, Ann; Muir, Tracey – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
This paper reports on a mathematics leader who participated as a co-teacher alongside a teacher educator in a university classroom. The collaboration was designed to bring the profession into the university. Case study research design and qualitative methods were used to analyse written self-reflections, transcripts of interviews and the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Knowledge Level, Team Teaching, Teacher Collaboration
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Forgasz, Helen J.; Hall, Jennifer – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2019
In 2015, a new Master of Teaching coursework unit, Numeracy for Learners and Teachers, was introduced at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The drivers for the establishment of the unit were the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership numeracy standards for graduate teachers and the inclusion of numeracy as a general…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Turner, Marianne; Windle, Joel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
This article explores the kinds of teacher knowledge promoted in TESOL-related curriculum standards in five jurisdictions (Australia and England at the national level, New York City and New York State in the United States, and Ontario, Canada, at the subnational level). Such documents are increasingly important in defining, and potentially…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, English Teachers
Davidson, Aylie – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2017
The process of planning mathematics lessons is complex and presents challenges for teachers, specifically in their Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching (MKT). In this paper, I describe findings from case study research in which a Year 1 teaching team engaged in professional reading and used a specific planning proforma to enhance their MKT.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Knowledge Level, Mathematics Instruction, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Bourke, Terri; Lidstone, John – SAGE Open, 2015
In Australia, for more than two decades, a "social science" integrated framework was the favored approach for delivering subjects such as history and geography. However, such interdisciplinary approaches have continued to attract criticism from various parts of the academic and public spheres, and since 2009, a return to teaching the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Geography Instruction, Knowledge Level
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Stark, Hannah L.; Snow, Pamela C.; Eadie, Patricia A.; Goldfeld, Sharon R. – Annals of Dyslexia, 2016
This study sought to investigate the level of knowledge of language constructs in a cohort of Australian teachers and to examine their self-rated ability and confidence in that knowledge. Seventy-eight teachers from schools across the Australian state of Victoria completed a questionnaire which included items from existing measures, as well as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Native Language Instruction, Reading Instruction, Early Childhood Education
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Lane, Rod; Catling, Simon – Journal of Geography, 2016
Climatic hazards are a key feature of life. It is vital that teachers are knowledgeable about these phenomena in order to develop their students' understanding of them. This study used a mixed methods approach to examine the accuracy and depth of preservice primary teachers' (n = 430) knowledge of tropical cyclones. The findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Accuracy, Knowledge Level, Natural Disasters
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Ilgaz, Gokhan; Vural, Levent; Eskici, Menekse – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This study aims to examine to what extent the field of competence regarding curriculum knowledge is concordant with the other sub-competency fields of teaching. These fields are field knowledge, pedagogic competence in field teaching, use of information and communication technologies in teaching, student behaviours and class management,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teacher Competencies
Lomas, Laurinda; Clarke, Doug – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
As teaching is a cultural activity embedded in a unique context, professional development opportunities for teachers may be best placed amid the relevance of everyday classroom practice, and supported by an innovative curriculum. This progress paper reports on data collected as part of doctoral research studying the changes in mathematical…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Teacher Competencies, Knowledge Level, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Carter, Mark; Stephenson, Jennifer; Hopper, Toni – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
There has been increasing interest in an evidence-based approach to education in Australia, but relatively little research has provided relevant data on knowledge of the evidence base for instructional practices among teachers preparing to enter the profession. Final year teacher education students (N = 290) in 15 Australian tertiary institutions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Design, Decision Making, Evidence
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Dyment, Janet E.; Hill, Allen – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
In this paper, we report on an investigation into initial teacher education students' (ITES) understandings of sustainability and the Australian National Curriculum Sustainability Cross Curricular Priority (CCP). We also explore their willingness and capacities to embed the CCP into their own teaching practices. The ITES (N = 392) completed a…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Surveys
Chinnappan, Mohan; White, Bruce – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
That the quality of teachers' knowledge has direct impact on students' engagement and learning outcomes in mathematics is now well established. But questions about the nature of this knowledge and how to characterise that knowledge are important for mathematics educators. In the present study, we examine a strand of "Specialised Content…
Descriptors: Evidence, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Error Correction
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