To explore Iranian professionally developed English teachers’ passion for the English language teaching profession, an interview with 7 open-ended questions was conducted to 14 Iranian professionally developed teachers to discover what factors were at work in their professional growth. Participants included 8 Ph.D. holders, 3 Ph.D. candidates, and 3 M.A. holders in TEFL who had more than 20 yea...

This paper recounts how the beginning of 2020 pandemic affected schooling, teachers, and teacher education. short teachers educators reacted to continued working through initial phases COVID-19 pandemic. There are journal postings, notes about with students education from shared experience a cooperating teacher, student university supervisor.

With nearly one-half of U.S. teachers leaving the profession within first five years their career, focusing on retention is an ongoing effort. Providing quality mentorship during student teaching internship provides further support to new preparing enter classroom. Cooperating play a pivotal role in success these teachers. However, little known about mentoring process between cooperating and Th...

Large-scale environmental epidemiologic studies often rely on exposure estimates based on linkage to residential addresses. This approach, however, is limited by the lack of residential histories typically available for study participants. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of using address data from LexisNexis (a division of RELX, Inc., Dayton, Ohio), a commercially available credit...

While music education researchers have examined cooperating teacher and student interactions via classroom observations interviews, there is little research on extended dialogues between the or various mentoring roles (coach, guide, model, evaluator) assumed by teachers. During one 8-week teaching placement period, I recorded four teacher-cooperating pairs, along with individual interviews. Dat...