Abstract The changing culture toward multimodality enforces acquiring visual literacy in every aspect of today’s modern life. One of the fields intermingled with using various modes in different variations is language teaching and learning, especially for and by young learners. Young language learners’ (5-12 years old) lack of world experience forces them to make the most use of non-verbal mode...

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...

Teachers’ anxiety about an academic domain, such as math, can impact students’ learning in that domain. We asked whether this relation held in the domain of spatial skill, given the importance of spatial skill for success in math and science and its malleability at a young age. We measured 1stand 2nd-grade teachers’ spatial anxiety (N= 19) and students’ spatial skill (N= 132). Teachers’ spatial...

The Teaching-Learning Interchange (TLI), a federal Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technologies project, will be in its second year of developing an online support community for “pre-intern teachers,” a designation in California for new teachers who are not credentialed and have not passed subject matter competency. The intent of the pre-intern program is to provide a way for those wishing...