Physics teachers' perspectives on High School national curriculum policies

Constructing the Curriculum: National Curriculum, Teachers' practice & Change

Remote Laboratory for Secondary School Physics Curriculum

This paper describes the current influence of the remote laboratory on practical learning aspects of secondary sector of education. The key challenges faced by the teaching of science include insufficient hands-on laboratory usage in classrooms. The main objective of the paper is to present learning approach of usage VISIR Open Lab Platform for teaching Ohm ́s Law in Physics curriculum of second...

Female High School Teachers’ Opinion on Their Educational Role and the Extent to Which They Match the Expectations of the National Curriculum

Female High School Teachers’ Opinion on Their Educational Role and the Extent to Which They Match the Expectations of the National Curriculum A. Ziyaa’ee Mehr, Ph.D. M. Hallaaji, Ph.D. To survey the opinions of female high school teachers on their educational role, initially a single-question questionnaire was distributed among 80 of them who were randomly selected. Then...

ICT, National Policies, and Impact On Schools and Teachers’ Development

In 1997 the Ministry of Education launched a Programme for the Development of Educational Technologies (PSTD) having as its main stated goals: the provision of infrastructures to schools (PCs, internet connections, etc.); the improvement of teachers’ professional skills in using ICT; the improvement of effectiveness of learning and teaching methods and content; and the promotion of the use of I...

High school employment , high school curriculum , and post - school wages

The direct, skill-enhancing effect of high school employment is difficult to identify because high school work effort is correlated with curricular choices, postsecondary schooling and work effort, and many other observed and unobserved factors. This study uses data for male, high school graduates to estimate a wage model in which detailed measures of high school coursework and post-school work...