This study examined the effects of a support course for student teachers who served as mentors of school children over one school year in the Perach Mentoring Project (PMP). One hundred student teacher mentors responded to a questionnaire that examined the student teacher mentors' role perceptions, mentoring performance and support sources. The findings indicate that participation in mentoring ...

Teachers intentionally pick the most informative examples to show their students. However, if the teacher and student are neural networks, the examples that the teacher network learns to give, although effective at teaching the student, are typically uninterpretable. We show that training the student and teacher iteratively, rather than jointly, can produce interpretable teaching strategies. We...

Abstract This study aimed to explore the interaction between teachers and young students in terms of their question answer patterns during science lessons investigate whether this changes over course an intervention called ‘Language as a Tool for learning science’ (LaT). It also compared experienced with novices. A total 16 teachers—of which 8 novice teachers—and participated study. The teacher...

We used a random-assignment experiment in Los Angeles Unified School District to evaluate various non-experimental methods for estimating teacher effects on student test scores. Having estimated teacher effects during a pre-experimental period, we used these estimates to predict student achievement following random assignment of teachers to classrooms. While all of the teacher effect estimates ...

The article deals with the problem of pedagogical effectiveness conditions for interrelations a lecturer and students under higher school

Language learning styles are among the main factors that help determine how –and how well–our students learn a second or foreign language. In the traditional classroom, the primarymode of interaction was face-to-face dialogue between the teacher and the student. This studypresents an analysis of the types of interaction in Jahad-e-Daneshgahi Institute, among 45EFL students in Miyaneh city, and ...