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Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Pre-service Teacher Education: Research in Progress

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The 2nd International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud

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Abstract

The Israeli Ministry of Education launched the IT National Initiative Program (ITNIP) in 2011, with the objective of transforming teacher education in order to meet the demands of the twenty-first century [1, 2]. The ITNIP program emphasizes the need to develop required skills among students, including ICT literacy, critical thinking, inquiry and problem solving, communicating and teamwork, self-oriented learning and ethics and cyber awareness. The initiative focuses on teachers as agents of change, on the need to teach them how to integrate ICT wisely into teaching and how to develop innovative pedagogy that will enhance learning and teaching processes. Implementation of the ITNIP began in the 2011–2012 school year.

The present study focuses on two colleges of education that participate in the ITNIP: a large college located in the center of Israel and a small college from the northern part of Israel. The study examines the ability of pre-service teachers to integrate technological knowledge with pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) in their teaching. The participants are 280 pre-service teachers from the large college and 200 pre-service teachers from the small college. Jewish as well as Arab pre-service teachers study at both colleges. The study compares the integration of TPACK in the large college to its integration in the small college. The study will try to determine whether demographic variables (gender, ethnicity, age) influence the integration of TPACK by the pre-service teachers.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science, Beit-Berl College, Doar Beit-Berl, Israel

    Anat Oster

  2. Western Galilee College and Ohalo College, 2125, 2421, Akko, Israel

    Yehuda Peled

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. School of Computing, Staffordshire University, Stafford, United Kingdom

    Lorna Uden

  2. Department of Information Management, National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Yu-Hui Tao

  3. National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Hsin-Chang Yang

  4. National University of Kaohsiung Dept. Information Management, Kaohsiung, Nan-Tzu District, Taiwan

    I-Hsien Ting

Appendix

Appendix

1.1 Implementation of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Colleges of Education

A section from the Students’ Questionnaire—2012/13 Academic Year

Describe a lecture in which the lecturer effectively and interestingly combined ICT in his/her teaching. Specify the lesson’s subject, the pedagogical approach and the computerized tool or environment. If you did not participate in such a class, please write “did not participate”.

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Describe a lesson in which your mentor teacher effectively and interestingly combined ICT in his/her teaching. Specify the lesson’s subject, the pedagogical approach and the computerize tool or environment. If you did not participate in such a class, please write “did not participate”.

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Technological pedagogical content knowledge

Strongly agree

Agree

Tend to agree

Tend not to agree

Do not agree

Disagree

I can choose ICT teaching materials that contribute to my teaching

      

I can select technologies that enhance the pupils’ learning

      

I can design lessons that appropriately combine technologies with my content knowledge

      

I can teach lessons that appropriately combine technologies with my content knowledge

      

I can provide leadership in helping others to coordinate the use of technologies with teaching my content knowledge at my school

      

I was trained in my college to appropriately combine technologies in teaching

      

Following teaching methods to which I was exposed in my courses at my college, I can appropriately combine technologies in teaching

      

If you incorporated IT in any of the lessons you taught, please give an example of one which you feel was good (please specify the subject; how you incorporated IT into that lesson and what pedagogical approach you used).

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Oster, A., Peled, Y. (2014). Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Pre-service Teacher Education: Research in Progress. In: Uden, L., Tao, YH., Yang, HC., Ting, IH. (eds) The 2nd International Workshop on Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. Springer Proceedings in Complexity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7308-0_5

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