BACKGROUND When innovations are introduced in medical education, teachers often have to adapt to a new concept of what being a good teacher includes. These new concepts do not necessarily match medical teachers' own, often strong beliefs about what it means to be a good teacher.Recently, a new competency-based description of the good teacher was developed and introduced in all the Departments o...

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the present study aimed to explore (a) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and their resiliency, (b) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and their genders, and (c) if there is any relationship between efl teachers’ self-regulatory and years of teaching experience. through a convenience method of sampling, the first group of participa...

* The authors gratefully acknowledge the support provided by the Key Project of Research Base for Beijing Social Science Foundation of P.R. China for this study, under the Grant No. 16JDJYA007. 1 Institute of International and Comparative Education, Faculty of Education, East China Normal University, Shanghai, P. R. China. Email: [email protected] 2 Correspondence to: Guiqing An, Institu...

This study was conducted to quantify views of the students’ regarding role of University Teachers in prompting the students and attracting them towards the classes to enhance their classroom attendance. A structured questionnaire built on the pattern of Likert scale was employed for the data collection. Teaching method employed by the teachers, their dealing with the students and their way of c...

This paper discusses the views of Turkish and British novice teachers on pedagogy and pedagogical relationships with school students when confronted with the pedagogical practices of the 'Other'. Experiences of those practices were gained by novice teachers during an exchange visit for British and Turkish university students in 2008-2009. Data was collected through questionnaires and focus grou...

This study describes the use of concept mapping in regard to teachers' views on the meaning of knowledge, learning, and expertise of teachers, as produced by SConSAT (Standardized Concept Structuring Analysis Task) interviews with expert and novice teachers. The study is based on the assumption that concept maps are cognitive and meta-cognitive tools that make it possible to reveal covert and o...