Perceptions of UAE PreService Teachers about TPACK Capabilities

This explanatory mixed-method study aimed at understanding UAE pre-service teachers’ perspectives on their preparedness to use technology for future classroom practices, as well as their instructors’ perspectives on pre-service teachers’ preparedness to use technology for future classroom practices. This study also looks into the pre-service teachers and instructors’ suggestions for future action plan to maximize the preparedness and the factors that they believed influenced the acquisition of knowledge and skills regarding technology integration in the classroom. In addition, the study explores research questions that will both address technology readiness and its affecting factors, for which the Technological Pedagogical and Content Knowledge (TPACK) model was used as a framework to reflect on the technology integration skills of pre-service teacher.