The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions of general education teachers related to their teaching practices and the inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The teachers’ viewpoints about their planning and teaching practices, assessment strategies, and incorporation of reading strategies were explored. Interviews were conducted with ten middle school teachers ...

Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have become increasingly available in Australian primary schools. However, little is known about how they are being integrated by teachers into their teaching practices. This paper reports on a study of the introduction of IWBs into an Australian public primary school. Data were collected for one day per week over two school terms, involving four classroom teacher...

BACKGROUND Teachers play an important role in seminars as facilitators and content experts. However, contextual factors like students' preparation, group size, group interaction, and content appear to influence their performance. Understanding the impact of these contextual factors on students' perception of teaching performance may help to further understand seminar teaching. Besides that, it ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in the teaching anxiety of preservice teachers in mathematics according to their learning style preferences. There were a total of 506 pre-service teachers involved in this study. Of the total, 205 were pre-service elementary school teachers, 173 were pre-service elementary mathematics teachers, and 128 were pre-service secondary math...

The objective of this empirical research was to identify differences in opinions of grading styles applied in Croatian Language classes that exist between teachers teaching in lower grades of primary school, and with respect to their teaching experience and level of education completed. The research was conducted in February 2010 and included 160 teachers from central and district schools in th...

Modern teaching, the increasing use of modern teaching methods, especially multimedia plays an increasingly important role in teaching. Compared with the traditional English teaching methods, the advantages of multimedia is obvious. Correct and reasonable use of multimedia courseware, teaching English will play a more important role, and how to design multimedia courseware has also become the m...

The purpose of this study is to explore inhibiting factors teachers in the United States have personally encountered or perceived in using games for instruction, and how teacher perceptions of barriers are influenced by their gender, teaching level and experience of using games for instruction. Four factors have been found to hinder teachers’ use of games in the classroom: challenges of impleme...

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if teachers’ pay (defined in monetary terms) is not performance related. If teachers value reputation, they increase effort if the output of teaching is measured. T...

the idea that teaching a foreign language has a cultural dimension isn't new.this study is a review of literature on the importance of the synchronized teaching ofculture and language and the exising challenges in this area.thispaper deals with questions like:what is the aim of teaching culture?what are the constituent components of culture?what aspects of culture should be taught and what...

This article concerns the 20th century saga of Ayurvedic Education up to the current situation, based on a general appreciation of knowledge in Ayurveda. In this light, it considers how to improve quality of teaching and teachers. This is most important, because in education, teachers are the custodians of tradition and knowledge. As those most responsible for maintaining or restoring quality, ...