Share Paper: Beginning Teachers’ Reflections on Pre-service Technology Training and Sense of Preparedness
Abstract: Several studies investigate effective strategies for preparing teachers for educational technology use, but primarily from the perspectives of pre-service teachers in training. This study addresses a different pathway that has received minimal research attention. It explores beginning teachers’ reflective accounts regarding what pre-service technology training opportunities are important to their present use of technology in teaching and how prepared they were. This study, a qualitative case inquiry, gleaned data from open-ended questions and telephone interviews with six beginning teachers in Ghana. Thematic analysis revealed the beginning teachers valued three pre-service technology learning opportunities (standalone technology courses, modelling of technology use, ...