As a part of classroom management, teachers face the question of how and where to seat their students. However, it is far from clear what considerations teachers have when making seating arrangements. Therefore, in this study seating arrangement considerations from 50 teachers in grades 4–6 of elementary school were assessed. In Phase 1, teachers were interviewed about their goals and considera...

this study investigated the characteristics of effective secondary school iranian efl teachers from students’ and teachers’ perspectives. to this end, 376 junior secondary school students and 32 efl teachers teaching at various iranian secondary schools participated in the study. a validated open-ended questionnaire was distributed among the student and teacher participants and asked for their ...

This paper grew out of a concern for the discrepancies that currently exist between what we accept as evidence of teacher knowledge on teacher tests and what we are learning from cognitive science and ethnographic studies of classrooms about teacher thinking. We are recognizing, as never before, that teaching is extremely complicated. It is not linear. Teachers draw from many sources of knowled...

Although it is understood that great clinical teachers are knowledgeable about their subject matter, expertise in a given field does not always translate to excellence in teaching. This article resumes the series by the Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) examining the skills and strategies of great clinical teachers.1 Great clinical teachers recognize that “how” they te...

In Japan, teaching of the subject "Information" was started in the high schools in April 2003, and interest in IT/information education has continued to grow since then. It is very difficult to design IT/information education materials, and there are very few specialist teachers of IT/information education. For this reason, it is necessary and important to provide teachers of IT /information ed...

The introduction of performance-related pay with Performance Management in the state school sector of England and Wales represents a considerable change in the school management system. After 2000, all teachers were subject to annual goal setting performance reviews. Experienced teachers were offered an extended pay scale based on performance instead of seniority, and to gain access to the new ...

This study aimed to investigate sources of motivation of English language teachers in Iranian public and private language schools. To this end, a Language Teacher Motivation Source (LTMS) questionnaire was developed on the basis of the related literature. The LTMS examined four sources of motivation, i. e., extrinsic (economic, social, emotional, educational), intrinsic, altruistic, and subject...