Teaching and Teacher Education

Educational inequalities affecting culturally and linguistically diverse students highlight the importance of teachers’ positive beliefs about multilingualism, critical cultural and multilingual awareness, and responsiveness. This quasi-experimental pre-post study investigates how pre-service teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism, awareness, and responsiveness can be promoted through a practice…

The role of teacher characteristics for technology integration received increased attention, but focused primarily on motivational characteristics, although knowledge may influence instructional practice. In this study, we analyze subject-specific motivational and cognitive characteristics of N = 234 pre-service and in-service teachers for secondary mathematics using latent profile analysis. We i…

Designing adaptive online teacher professional development (oTPD) requires an understanding of how both teacher characteristics and the nature of learning opportunities shape teacher engagement. While indicators of behavioral engagement (e.g., time spent) have received some attention, cognitive engagement—how deeply teachers process and reflect on learning opportunities—remains underexplored. Thi…