Because gestures can ground abstract ideas in the physical world and make connections between ideas, they play a potentially important role in the classroom. This study examined whether teachers can intentionally alter their gesture production. Six teachers taught a brief mathematics lesson three times, once without any special instructions, once attempting to use gestures to link ideas, and on...

The recent decline in fieldwork provision in UK schools has partly been attributed to false perceptions of risk among teachers. This paper examines a case study based on geography teachers’ perceptions from six state secondary schools in a northern English city. The research shows that owing to the inherent subjectivity of risk perception, these teachers’ perceptions of fieldwork risk cannot be...

This study aims to probe into the cognitive sources and reflective content of student teachers’ socialization, such as job proficiency, goals and values, school culture, and role regulation by ‘teaching blog’. This paper utilizes eight student teachers of business, data processing, Chinese, English, science, and technology as subjects. Through Action Research, this study examines educational pr...

The present study is an attempt to discover the relationships among reflection, role stressors and resilience. To this end, a mixed-method approach was adopted. In the quantitative phase, 122 EFL teachers completed three questionnaires namely English Language Teaching Reflection Inventory, Teacher Role Stressors Scale and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale. The results of correlation indicated th...

This study investigates teachers’ understanding of underlying unit structures including: the relationship between lessons and curriculum design principles; and the connections among lessons in a unit. We investigated: (1) teachers’ understanding of curriculum design principles; and (2) the role of teachers’ experiences with curriculum units in their understanding of underlying unit structures. ...

BACKGROUND Nursing teachers have difficulties fulfilling multiple roles expectations and balancing the various dimensions of their roles that may lead to role strain. In order to lack of culturally and academically proper scale in Iran to measure role strain in nursing teachers, localizing a foreign scale in this field is necessary. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was psychometric eval...

This narrative literature analysis examines the storylines of rural teachers told through published research on rural teachers. Using a narrative analysis approach, we investigated research published between 1970 and 2010—four decades of ruraloriented education research and policy work. Four storylines emerged from our coding of rural-related education research: (1) rural teachers are professio...

PURPOSE School teachers can play a key role in the first-aid management of school children experiencing a seizure. The teachers have a pivotal role in disseminating knowledge to the children of diseases experienced by them and developing positive attitudes among the children regarding the diseases. The present study investigated the knowledge and practices used by teachers to manage epileptic s...

The role of teachers in the educational context could go beyond simply teaching the subject matter. It is not uncommon for some students to be greatly influenced by certain teachers and even consider them as their role models. An interesting and novel way of inferring the impact a teacher has on the students is through revealing the status of the teacher as perceived by the students. The presen...