OBJECTIVE The interaction between teachers, classroom strategies and learners experiencing emotional and behavioural barriers to learning and development in a system of inclusive education results in multiple dynamics on different levels. Many teachers in mainstream education lack training to deal with learners experiencing emotional and behavioural barriers. Resistance towards inclusive educat...

Problem Statement: Student teachers’ beliefs and conceptions affect not only what and how they learn in teacher education programs, but also their future professional development in their teaching careers. Examining and understanding student teachers’ beliefs and conceptions is therefore crucial to improving their professional preparation and development, as well as the effectiveness of teacher...

Teachers’ knowledge for implementing constructivist instruction with technology is termed as their constructivist-oriented technological pedagogical content knowledge. There are currently no available surveys for understanding teachers’ perceptions in this aspect. Therefore, teachers’ perceived knowledge gaps in terms of constructivist-oriented technology integration are not well understood. Us...

Background. School teachers have an internationally recognized potential role in school-based dental education and considerable importance has therefore been attributed to their dental knowledge. The objectives of this study were to determine the oral health related knowledge, attitudes, and approaches of pre-primary and primary school teachers in the city of Mumbai. Methods. The descriptive cr...

this study was designed to investigate the occupational stressors on teachers and their evaluation in schools firoozkooh city. in this study, statistical sample is 174 male and female teachers of schools in the education of firoozkooh so that they are selected using quota sampling and citing morgan as an example. in this study, data were analyzed using independent t-test. results of this study ...

BACKGROUND Since 2010, the Faculty of Medicine at Finis Terrae University implemented a training program aiming to train health professionals in effective educational practices. AIM To evaluate the effect of training in teachers who are in charge of planning courses, conducting classes and learning assessment. MATERIAL AND METHODS Quality of planning, lecture performance and academic perfor...

The aim of the current research was to examine pre—service, general and special education teachers attitudes to and knowledge of metalinguistics (awareness of language structure) in the process of learning to read. Effective teachers of reading, writing, and spelling need to understand the relationship between speech and print because these basic language processes are often deficient in cases ...

This brief is a follow-up to our previous brief on how the Effective Teachers Initiative (ETI) has changed the composition of teacher exits from HISD. The companion brief shows that the ETI has increased the exit rate of ineffective teachers relative to other teachers. This brief documents how much the compositional effect on exiting teachers improves student achievement. While we estimate a po...

Six students were randomly selected from each of four third-grade and four fifth-grade classes. For each of their six students, teachers were asked to predict whether the student had responded correctly or incorrectly to selected items on a standardized achievement test that recently had been administered in the district. It was found that (a) aggregate measures of teachers' judgments of their ...

The purpose of this study was to use a cross-sectional survey design, with an integrated theoretical perspective, to examine clinical teachers' (n = 64) and nursing students' (n = 352) empowerment, teachers' and students' perceptions of teachers' use of empowering teaching behaviors, students' perceptions of nurses' practice behaviors, and students' confidence for practice in acute care setting...