Abstract:
The New Zealand Ministry of Education is calling for greater links between in-service and pre-service teacher educators. At the same time it has published a document which highlights the dearth of research into the impact of tertiary courses on preparing students to teach (Timperley, Wilson, Barrar, & Fung, 2007). This paper outlines how a group of pre-service and in-service technology teacher educators worked together to develop a research proposal to investigate the impact of their own practice. The research is designed to investigate student teachers’ and provisionally registered teachers’ perceptions of the effectiveness of the pre-service and in-service experience in preparing them to teach technology. At a time when the NZ headlines are stating that new teachers are not prepared well to teach, this research will enable more effective pre-and in-service programs in technology education to be developed.
