This paper reports the first stage in the development of a tool, the Six Staffordshire Teaching Styles Questionnaire, designed to raise awareness in teachers about their teaching style. Effective teachers are adaptable and flexible in providing variety in their teaching activities, aiming to match their manipulation of the teaching and learning environment to the needs of the learner, but teach...

This study investigates the extent to which: (a) mathematics teachers' educational beliefs about mathematics change upon participation in professional development, and (b) teachers' educational background and teaching experience in mathematics contribute to their educational beliefs and to the change in these beliefs. Results showed that teachers significantly improved their educational beliefs...

Digital technology for teaching practice students means the ability of student teachers to use digital artefacts as integral part of their pedagogical content knowledge. Student teachers need to be also aware of what implications this has for teaching and learning strategies plus the building aspects in the lesson presentation. A new approach to teaching practice, calibrated for the 21 century,...

We propose to use concepts from algorithmic teaching to measure and improve human teaching for machine learners. We first investigate input examples produced by human teachers in comparison to optimal or useful teaching sequences, and find that human teachers do not naturally generate the best learning examples. Then we provide humans with teaching guidance in the form of step-by-step teaching ...

remedial teaching methods pdf The curriculum of remedial teaching was for children to like learning English.Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University. remedial teaching in english pdf Remedial or developmental courses are the most common policy instruments.students, the lack of prior knowledge is too large and remedial teaching before entering a programme is neces...

BACKGROUND The prolonged use or abuse of voice may lead to vocal fatigue and vocal fold tissue damage. School teachers routinely use their voices intensively at work and are therefore at a higher risk of dysphonia. AIMS To determine the prevalence of voice disorders among primary school teachers in Lagos, Nigeria, and to explore associated risk factors. METHODS Teaching and non-teaching sta...

Based on the fact that the relationships among student teachers’ efficacy beliefs, achievement goals, and conceptions about teaching and learning has remained to be investigated to date, this study aimed to examine student teachers’ efficacy beliefs and achievement goals as predictors of their conceptions about teaching and learning. Results of the present study showed that student teachers’ co...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, statistical reasoning (SR), statistical literacy (SL) and statistical thinking (ST) have been declared as the three overarching goals of modern statistics teaching (see for example, Ben-Zvi & Garfield, 2004). In many countries, e.g., in Germany, these goals involve a considerable change from teaching probability to teaching statistics. Hence, Garfield (2002) mentio...

The extent of teachers’ motivation to improve the quality of teaching triggered by appraisal policies in The University of Pedagogy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (hereafter referred as The University) is explored in this paper. The paper reports on a study of the attitudes of department heads and teachers in The University towards appraisal policies that are one of those used to motivate teacher...