Interdisciplinary Approaches Toward Enhancing Teacher Education

Regardless of the discipline or country creating quality education is multifaceted. At the center of any schooling practice are the educators their schools and the teacher education programs that license them. As the schools and faculties of education strive to provide the best practices to pre-service or in-service teachers it becomes more critical to increase the quality of teacher education via various means to keep up with the demands of schooling in the 21st century. Interdisciplinary Approaches Toward Enhancing Teacher Education provides an overview of how innovation and research experience can enhance teacher education programs with a focus on competencies skills and strategies future teachers will need to cope with while teaching students'' learning with diversity and facing linguistic social and environmental challenges. The book particularly investigates the potentiality of educational technology innovative techniques and digital storytelling to enhance education and bilingualism in intercultural contexts and multilingual settings. Covering topics that include performance assessment teacher training and professional development and including many practical and diverse examples this book is intended for TESOL second or foreign language learning and CUL programs and teacher-training institutions as well as teachers researchers academicians and students in interdisciplinary areas that include science history geography language learning bilingualism intercultural competencies classroom interaction gamification and educational technology.