This paper reports on a portion of a study of three middle school teachers (two mathematics teachers and one science teacher) as they taught a unit of engineering instruction. The study investigated the subject matter and pedagogical content knowledge these teachers used and developed as they taught with materials that used LEGO to introduce students to the engineering design process while desi...

Teachers who were regarded as the subject of educational reform, the function of their positivity directly influence the development of school and the improvement of educational quality. Therefore, incentive strategy to teachers is an effective way to promoting their development. This paper analyzed the problems exist in the process of incentive strategy to teachers and put forwards some sugges...

Information Technology (IT) high school learners are constantly struggling to cope with the challenges of succeeding in the subject. IT teachers, therefore, need to be empowered to utilize appropriate teaching–learning strategies to improve IT learners’ success in the subject. By promoting critical thinking skills, IT learners have the opportunity to achieve greater success in the most difficul...

Teachers’ Status in Iranian Educational System: An Indiginous Model Constructed and Validated M. Mohammadi, Ph.D. G. Salimi, Ph.D. T. Dorri To construct an indiginous model for teachers’ status, a group of experienced teachers was interviewed on the subject and as a result of the initial analyses two general themes were identified: internal and external statuses: tea...

Environmental health is a subject that has only relatively recently become prominent in the social consciousness. Even as its significance becomes known, finding ways to integrate the subject into education for primary and secondary students is difficult because of federal testing requirements under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and other demands placed on teachers. A number of efforts a...

The purpose of this study was to investigate experienced secondary school teachers' (N"80) current and prior perceptions of their professional identity. A questionnaire was used to explore the way teachers see (and saw) themselves as subject matter experts, didactical experts, and pedagogical experts. The teachers currently see their professional identity as consisting of a combination of the d...

BACKGROUND Internationally and historically considerable research has been undertaken regarding the attitudes of secondary school teachers towards different types of ability grouping. There has been no recent research taking account of the changing educational context in the UK. AIMS This paper aims to explore secondary school teachers' attitudes and beliefs about ability grouping taking acco...

This applied research was designed to analyze the effectiveness of inquiry-based instruction as compared to teacher-directed instruction in 5th-grade mathematics and science courses at the subject school. The subject school modified mathematics and science curriculum for 3 years and became an Alabama Math, Science, and Technology (AMSTI) [2009] school. AMSTI provided extensive professional deve...

Teachers have many roles to fulfill. One of the most important roles is that of expert in the subject field they teach. Teachers should master the contents of the subject and should be able to deepen understanding and insight in these contents. Language teachers do not only teach the foreign language. They are also responsible for the teaching of the culture of the language. This article report...