Students training to become primary school teachers appear to have little awareness of the core concepts of geography (teaching). To ensure that future primary school teachers are able to develop their pupils' geographical awareness, a six weeks programme was developed. The characteristics of this programme -- named Consciously Teaching Geography…

Adapting support contingently to student needs by first diagnosing their current understanding, that is, scaffolding, is considered a key aspect of excellent teaching. The use of classroom scaffolding is rare, however. We therefore investigated the benefits to teachers of a professional development program that was based upon a model of contingent…

This study compares long-term retention from audio-tutorial instruction with common lecture-discussion retention. The population of the experiment was limited to students in two sections of a teacher education methods course. Through the use of a univariate statistical analysis in the framework of a split-plot factorial design, no significant…