Techno-Social Pathology of Smart Elementary Schools for Girls in Qom from Teachers’ Perspective*   N. Naderi-Beni, Ph.D.** H. Khanifar, Ph.D.*** A. Ghofraani****    The importance of schooling in shaping the future of the society requires continuous evaluation/surveys and identification of shortcomings, especially in the newly invented smart schools. To engage in such a pathology the Tech...

The facts have been obtained largely from the reports of the ^'hite schools of Elkton, Maryland, and through the cooperation of many teachers and students in the schools and of friends outside it was possible to obtain much valuable data which the reports could not furnish. Many of the teachers had taught in the schools for a period as long as that covered by the investigation, and the writer h...

In order to explore the cultural domains of Tehrani elementary schools vis-à-vis distributed leadership, a sample of 16 teachers, 8 assistant principals, and 8 principals was selected purposefully from districts 2, 6, and 11. The informants were interviewed in a  semi-structured fashion. Data analyses revealed 19 main factors upon which a model for the cultural domains of the elementary schools...

The present study investigated the way elementary school teachers perceive the importance of phonological awareness in their classroom experiences. To achieve the aim, 75 elementary school teachers of both genders with diverse years of experience and qualifications from 25 elementary schools in Khorram Abad, Iran were selected. In order to obtain the data, the modified version of the Likert-typ...

Low-achieving students often are taught by the least-qualified teachers. These disparities begin when teachers take their first jobs, and in urban areas they are worsened by teachers' subsequent decisions to transfer and quit. Such quits and transfers increase disparities in at least two ways. First, more qualified teachers are substantially more likely to leave schools having the lowest-achiev...

This study was intended to study the effect of personal experience and subspecialization on the knowledge of epilepsy of teachers at Czech elementary schools, and on their attitudes towards children with epilepsy and on epilepsy itself in general. 193 teachers from 10 different elementary schools in Pilsen, Czech Republic, were involved in the study. We found that teachers with personal experie...

Integrating thinking skills such as focusing, information gathering, and organization into all subjects is becoming increasingly important in elementary schools. The nonacademic subjects of physical education, art, and music can provide opportunities for teaching thinking skills. In this study, 2 physical education programs (8 classes) were examined for the presence of opportunities to use thin...

Recent research using matched student-teacher data has confirmed the existence of an important role for teaching quality in producing student test score improvement in elementary and middle schools (Aaronson, Barrow, Sander (2007), Hanushek, Kain, O’Brien, Rivken (2005), Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger (2007)). This development has intensified concerns about the ability of underperforming schools to...