This chapter offers glimpses into the world of the pre-service teacher and identifies some of
the vulnerabilities that might be encountered during this time. An important part of this period …

It has long been recognised that the process of 'becoming a teacher'is complex. The aim of
any teacher education program therefore should be to provide 'high quality learning'(Killen …

Learning to teach is a personal, complex and context-specific task. This is a lesson drawn
from a study of three student teachers in a university-based teacher education programme in …

Across the international teacher education literature, the practicum appears time and again
as a key component of initial teacher education programmes. Whatever terminology is used …

This article focuses upon the developing professionalism and emergent thinking of 36
secondary trainee teachers, in terms of their motivation to teach, their early beliefs about …

Internationally, teacher educators are known to be a heterogeneous occupational group,
working in many ways to support pre-and in-service teachers from within differing types of …

This paper considers the professional development of a group of 75 primary and secondary
teachers in Melbourne, Victoria, who had been charged with the responsibility of leading the …

The class was quiet... where were their thoughts?'Guess what I'm thinking', they silently
said.'Guess what I'm thinking', the teacher shattered their calm. Lucky we have an excursion …

Initial teacher education programmes vary in guiding principles, structure, format, funding,
and pedagogies. At the same time, most are similar in touching on a wide-range of topics …

The focus of this chapter is the transition from student of teaching to teacher of students. This
transition is perhaps the most ubiquitous journey that teachers undertake, and yet, when we …