Background and Objectives: Bronchial asthma is a common and life-threatening problem affecting school children and adolescents. School teachers must be aware of this condition to educate their students, and to provide assistance to manage such attacks. This study is designed to assess the asthma knowledge of school teachers, and to determine if such knowledge is influenced by other variables. M...

At a time when the medical profession is at last taking a serious view of mentally ill doctors, the problem of the mentally ill school teacher should be given more attention than it has received. Some teachers have continued to teach, perhaps for years, while suffering from manifest psychotic or psycho-neurotic illness. Thus pupils may be exposed to the prolonged influence of a teacher with one...

The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...

Education is great meat to brought social change. A teacher has crucial role in imparting education. The quality of good Professionally competent teachers depends on some factor where the degree of level of adjustment present in the school environment. The present study is carried out in Government Primary Schools of district Jhajjar to know the gender, demographical and educational impact on t...

This study examined relationship among teachers academic qualification, teachers professional qualification, teachers content knowledge, teachers instructional quality, teachers’ evaluation procedures, teachers’ work value, teachers’ classroom attendance’ and teachers’ job satisfaction on academic performance of secondary school students in Saki-west local government area. The study adopted a d...

The purpose of this study was to elucidate the asthma knowledge level of primary school teachers in Istanbul, and factors associated with this subject. Seven hundred and ninety-two teachers from 73 randomly selected primary schools in Istanbul were included in this study. Although Istanbul primary school teachers generally have a satisfactory knowledge on asthma, they lack knowledge on triggers...

This paper reports a study of Malaysian primary school teachers’ grammatical awareness. In particular, the study seeks to examine the English language teachers’ nature and level of grammatical awareness. Questionnaire and interview techniques were used to elicit data from primary school teachers who were following their B. Ed TESOL programme in Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2006 and 2007. Findin...

To promote significant pedagogical change, the most successful teacher education programmes for the global south happen in the school context. This paper is based on a pre-pilot intervention study of an international education development programme in Bangladesh. Technology enhanced learning, in this case the use of Apple iPods (iPod touch), was used to support teachers’ teaching and learning i...

Background: To assess the oral health knowledge, attitude, practices and oral health status among urban and rural school teachers in and around Lucknow. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 797 school teachers of rural and urban, lucknow using W. H.O Oral Health Survey (1997) to assess the knowledge, attitude, practices and oral health status. Descriptive analysis was...