Even though the internship has been promoted as a method for professional development in teacher education, Thai pre-service science teachers' PCK during their internship is limited.
Recently, more and more Chinese researchers and educators raise concerns about unequal OTL and unbalanced development in teacher and staff development, teaching resources, learning materials, and school activities and involvement for disadvantaged groups and individuals (Hong 2004; Wang 2011).
Despite gains to address these issues, mainly through construction of new classrooms and development of in-teacher training programmes to improve teaching skills, improvements are still limited.
The results indicate that while there is a gradual and sometimes significant development in student teachers' beliefs during the program, student teachers' engagement in the teaching practice seems to have a low impact on the development of their beliefs.
As a number of studies suggest, providing better learning and professional development opportunities in teacher preparation and continuing education programs would enable them to develop a deeper and sophisticated understanding of biological evolution.
In 2003, there was another major development in Science teacher education in Malaysia.
NW: What would you say is the biggest development lately in teacher training in Canada ?
Where scientists and engineers can be most helpful are in areas like intensive professional development for in-service teachers in STEM disciplines and in classroom techniques for hands-on and activity based learning.
Professional development in pre-service teacher education include practicum where teacher candidates have the opportunity for teaching experiences in cooperating schools.
