Abstract
The gap between the teachers’ education and the teaching practice in school is a significant problem. This problem has many causes. Our experience and research have brought us to the conclusion that it is necessary to create systemic teacher continuous professional development (CPD). Teacher pre-service and in-service education with practical experience should be systematically linked. Teachers’ professional competences are finally formed through the combination of these three core parts of CPD. The outputs of our design-based research confirm this fact. We propose using the natural binding of three core parts of CPD and linking them systematically. We have found a set of current specific teachers’ competences that need to be addressed in science and mathematics education. These include in particular: education of gifted students, implementation of connectivism and IBSME etc. These competencies can be sufficiently established only within systemic CPD. In our study we present some specific examples of these competences.
Highlights
The quality of education is closely related to the quality of teachers, which since the mid twentieth century has been at the centre of educational attention worldwide
Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1987) has a long-term and complex development, it is necessary to start with the preparation of teachers in pre-service education and continue in an in-service period of systemic continuous professional development (CPD) based on practical experience
The result of our research using the DBR starts with a simple chart of three basic parts of systemic CPD for teachers
Summary
The quality of education is closely related to the quality of teachers, which since the mid twentieth century has been at the centre of educational attention worldwide. Teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1987) has a long-term and complex development, it is necessary to start with the preparation of teachers in pre-service education and continue in an in-service period of systemic CPD based on practical experience.
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