Increasing Teachers’ Behavior-Specific Praise:

Independence-supportive Praise versus Interdependence-promoting Praise

The Impact of Teachers' Praise on Students' Self-Talk and Self-Concepts

This study investigated the mediating effect of self-talk between positive and negative statements made by teachers and students' academic self-concepts (reading, mathematics, and learning) . Participants were 269 students in grades 3-7 at a middle-class, metropolitan, Australian elementary school. A research assistant administered the following instruments: (1) the "Significant Others Statemen...

Online Curriculum Planning Behavior of Teachers

Curriculum planning is perhaps one of the most important tasks teachers must perform before instruction. While this task is facilitated by a wealth of existing online tools and resources, teachers are increasingly overwhelmed with finding, adapting and aligning relevant resources that support them in their planning. Consequently, ripe research opportunities exist to study and understand online ...

Observing Online Curriculum Planning Behavior of Teachers

Curriculum planning is perhaps one of the most important tasks teachers must perform before instruction. While this task is facilitated by a wealth of existing online tools and resources, teachers are increasingly overwhelmed with finding, adapting and aligning relevant resources that support them in their planning. Consequently, ripe research opportunities exist to study and understand online ...

Creative solutions to psychiatry's increasing reliance on residents as teachers.

This special issue answers an urgent need in academic psychiatry to find creative new solutions to our field’s increasing reliance on residents as teachers. Two forces are driving this. One is an old problem that is now getting the recognition that it deserves. Medical schools and their affiliated hospitals have long neglected the preparation of residents to teach despite the fact that resident...