Research studies promote student teachers’ professional learning

Research studies promote student teachers’ professional learning and student teachers regard research studies as an important part of their teacher education. Furthermore, active learning experiences reinforce the positive effect of research studies on teachers’ professional competencies. Research studies are important element of teacher education and should be integrated with other parts of teacher education.
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Visualisations are useful tools to explore academics’ teacher identity

With visualisations such as drawing oneself as a teacher it is possible to identify essential aspects of academics’ teacher identity. Teachers expressed their teacher identity through realistic and metaphorical drawings. As a tool in pedagogical development courses, drawings allow multiple perspectives of oneself as a teacher, help them to reflect as a teacher, and reveal even stereotype beliefs about teaching and learning.
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