Xu Wang, Juan Niu, Bei Fang, Guangxin Han, Juhou He
{"title":"Empowering teachers' professional development with LLMs: An empirical study of developing teachers' competency for instructional design in blended learning","authors":"Xu Wang, Juan Niu, Bei Fang, Guangxin Han, Juhou He","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105091","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105091","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The issue of supporting teachers' professional development has been a significant focus in applied research related to large language models. The research group developed a blended teachers' professional development program, empowering teachers' professional development of instructional design competency in blended learning with a large language model, and conducted an empirical study at a university in northwest China. Utilising a focus group interview (n = 23) and quantitative analysis, we established that the program enabled targeted training, offered teachers a personalized learning experience, and eventually improved their competency in instructional design for blended learning. The large language model effectively empowered teachers' professional development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 105091"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221313","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Carme Peguera-Carré , Jordi L. Coiduras-Rodríguez , Andreu Curto-Reverte , Robert G. Valls-Figuera
{"title":"Validation of the narrative analysis category system for dual teacher education","authors":"Maria Carme Peguera-Carré , Jordi L. Coiduras-Rodríguez , Andreu Curto-Reverte , Robert G. Valls-Figuera","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105094","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study focuses on the SCAN instrument, designed to assess reflective narratives of pre-service teachers in Primary Education within a dual system. The instrument promotes structured reflective writing and enables consistent evaluation of PTs. A total of 1560 PTs narratives were assessed using the eight-item instrument. Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses confirmed a three-factor structure: Description and Comprehension, Professional Transformation, and Documentation, with adequate fit indices (CFI = .97, RMSEA = .07, SRMR = .02). The instrument aligns with the competencies of the institution's curriculum and promotes a critical and argued professional vision for the development of reflective competencies through the narratives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"165 ","pages":"Article 105094"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Nichol, Kirstin Mulholland, Chris Counihan, Sophie Meller, Arlene Anderson, Carl Luke, William Gray
{"title":"Back to basics: Pre-service teachers' experiences of ‘SimulatEd’, a suite of low-technology simulated-scenarios to promote preparedness for professional practice","authors":"David Nichol, Kirstin Mulholland, Chris Counihan, Sophie Meller, Arlene Anderson, Carl Luke, William Gray","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105089","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>International challenges in teacher recruitment and retention have prompted many training providers to explore high-technology forms of simulation-based learning (SBL). However, there is limited evidence of the benefits these technologies offer, compared with low-technology alternatives. Adopting a mixed methods approach, this pilot evaluation examines pre-service teachers' (PSTs) experiences of ‘SimulatEd’, a suite of three low-technology simulated-scenarios, as a strategy for better-preparing those entering the profession. Findings indicate PSTs' participation in ‘SimulatEd’ improved confidence and preparedness, facilitated application of theoretical knowledge into practice, and increased engagement. Conclusions advocate wider adoption of low-technology forms of SBL, and offer considerations for further development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 105089"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jacob Hackett , Rhina M. Fernandes-Williams , Ayinde Summers , Saniha Kabani , Robert C. Hendrick , Thomas Albright
{"title":"Walking the walk: Deepening critical consciousness through experiential place-based teacher education","authors":"Jacob Hackett , Rhina M. Fernandes-Williams , Ayinde Summers , Saniha Kabani , Robert C. Hendrick , Thomas Albright","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105105","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105105","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Our empirical study analyzes the 3-year design and impact of a dynamic community-based teacher preparation residency institute on pre-service teacher development. Using concurrent mixed methods, including: reflections, post-institute focus groups, pre- and post-survey results (Critical Consciousness Scale), and follow-up classroom instructional observations reveal important effects. Results reveal a significant deepening in teachers’ overall critical consciousness and a substantial desire to apply student-centered socio-politically informed pedagogies in their instructional lessons. Implications include how teacher education could integrate the latest advances in learning, critical theories of analysis and design, local movement organizers, and sustained authentic engagement with community-based teacher educators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 105105"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The effect of emotion regulation strategies on work engagement of kindergarten teachers: The mediating role of emotional labor","authors":"Youlai Zeng, Shiyan Wang, Lilan Zhu, Fengjie Ma","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105093","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105093","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To empirically explore the impact of kindergarten teachers' emotion regulation strategies on work engagement and the mediating role of emotional labor, 1275 kindergarten teachers were surveyed using the Emotional Labor Scale and other scales. This research found that cognitive reappraisal is positively related to work engagement, while expressive suppression has no significant impact on work engagement; surface acting is negatively related to work engagement, while deep acting and genuine emotions are positively related to work engagement. And cognitive reappraisal can indirectly affect kindergarten teachers’ work engagement through surface acting and genuine emotions; surface acting plays a full mediating role between expressive suppression and work engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 105093"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144184989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Nae problem here”: Troubling race and racism in Scottish education","authors":"Dennis A. Francis","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105092","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines how Scottish schools perpetuate racism and uphold White normativity. It troubles frameworks which buttresses colour-evasive forms of racism in schools and calls for a more critical examination of how White normativity is embedded in educational policy, structures, and practices. Utilising Critical Race Theory and phenomenology of Whiteness, it offers priorities for practice that consider and advance knowledge for teaching an anti-racist curriculum. It calls attention to addressing the material and structural practices of White normativity, intersectional oppression and for schools to forge alliances with third-sector organisations that provide anti-racist advocacy and teaching support.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 105092"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144167102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging transformational and instructional leadership for teacher professional development: A dual-mediation model of teacher self-efficacy and organisational culture","authors":"Yihong Long , Yi Xia","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105087","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105087","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates how transformational leadership (TL) and instructional leadership (IL) jointly influence teacher professional development (TPD) through teacher self-efficacy (TSE) and organisational culture (OC). Participants included 220 educators (teachers, principals, and managers) from colleges and universities in China. Employing a cross-sectional survey and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM), results revealed instructional leadership directly enhanced teacher development, whereas transformational leadership primarily had an indirect impact through increased teacher self-efficacy and improved organisational culture. The findings suggest integrated leadership practices should be emphasized in leadership training programs and policy frameworks to support sustained professional growth in higher education institutions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 105087"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developmental trajectories of early teacher–child relationships among Chinese children: Predictors and associations with child outcomes","authors":"Mengdi Chen , Bi Ying Hu , Lixin Ren","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105075","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105075","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The present study used Latent Class Growth Modeling to identify distinct teacher–child relationship trajectories among 59 teachers and 566 children in Chinese preschools. We also tested how identified profiles were associated with children's characteristics (as predictors and outcomes). Four trajectories were identified: two supportive (High Quality–Stable and Low Quality–Improving Trajectory) and two at-risk (High Conflict–Stable and High Quality–Deteriorating Trajectory). Boys, children with lower socioeconomic status, and with higher externalizing behavior were more likely to display at-risk relationship trajectories. At-risk trajectory membership predicted more externalizing behaviors and lower math skills. Early interventions may be needed to reduce negative teacher–child dynamics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 105075"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144147711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Categories of teacher engagement in professional development and their attributions in the Chinese context: Implications for future PDs","authors":"Mengting Liu , Jiali Huang , Guoyu Song","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines teacher engagement in professional development (PD) through the conceptual lens of attribution. Four types of engagement are identified—striving, pragmatic, hesitating, and coping—each shaped by attributions to responsibility, ability, student, and environment. Drawing on qualitative data from a nine-month, school-based PD initiative involving 13 teachers in China, the study finds that internal attributions (responsibility, ability) foster deeper engagement, whereas external attributions (student, environment) lead to passive or superficial engagement. The findings highlight the interplay among perception, emotion, and behavior in shaping engagement. Additionally, teaching experiences, facilitator credibility, and teacher autonomy are found critical for effective PD.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 105090"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sijing Zhou, Gavin R. Slemp, Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick
{"title":"Profiling pre-service teachers’ motivational and behavioral characteristics: Relationships with psychological wellbeing and occupational commitment","authors":"Sijing Zhou, Gavin R. Slemp, Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick","doi":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tate.2025.105041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the motivational and behavioral profiles of 677 pre-service teachers in Australia. The motivational characteristics assessed include autonomous motivation, controlled motivation, and teacher self-efficacy, whereas the behavioral characteristics assessed include engagement coping and disengagement coping. Latent profile analysis identified four profiles for the participating pre-service teachers: Low Functioning (24.2 %), Vulnerable (31.8 %), Low Motivation (6.9 %), and High Functioning (37.1 %). These profiles differed in their psychological wellbeing and occupational commitment and varied by gender and the completion status of professional experience. We discuss implications for enhancing pre-service teachers' commitment and wellbeing by supporting their motivational and coping characteristics.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48430,"journal":{"name":"Teaching and Teacher Education","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 105041"},"PeriodicalIF":4.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144138823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}