Editorial: Leveraging Pandemic Lessons to Improve Teacher Education Pedagogy and Practice

Teacher education programs have pioneered a number of online instructional practices with the potential to inform sustained changes in educator preparation methods and pedagogy. Throughout the process, appreciation and use of digital tools within teacher education contexts has dramatically increased, including opportunities to integrate principles of computer science into teacher education courses to help preservice teachers acquire skills needed for work and civic engagement in an increasingly computational society. Further, the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, has provided several opportunities to support educators’ work, including support with developing educational resources such as course syllabi and assignments, assessments, and study guides, to name a few. Development of high-quality educational materials is a time-consuming endeavor for teachers, which is why access to both tools and freely available educational resources can be useful...