Teacher Leaders Engage in Action Research

The Hunches a Language Teacher Lives by in an Action Research: Revelations of an L2 Writing Teacher

The researchers in this study aimed to demonstrate how impossible it could be for a language teacher to take fixed, systematic routes of action in recent Action Research designs.  This was instantiated in an L2 (here, English) 'essay writing' course among some Persian speaker university students majoring in Hygiene Sciences (Family and Environment). Evidences regarding individualistic progress ...

Teacher Development and Action Research: Findings from Six Years of Action Research in Schools

Criteria for evaluating technology leaders in schools: Mixed research

The goal of this research was to extract criteria for evaluating technology leaders and it was conducted by mixed method.  The research method was descriptive in the qualitative part and survey method in the quantitative part.  The research was carried out in smart and semi-smart  primary schools in Zanjan province in the academic year of 1398-99. Participants of the qualitative part were fifte...

Teacher Leaders: Teaching, Learning and Leading

Inferences about action engage action systems.

Verbal descriptions of actions activate compatible motor responses [Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2002). Grounding language in action. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 558-565]. Previous studies have found that the motor processes for manual rotation are engaged in a direction-specific manner when a verb disambiguates the direction of rotation [e.g. "unscrewed;" Zwaan, R. A., & Taylor, L....