Education policymakers have long recognized the importance of having highly effective teachers in all of our nation’s classrooms. Among recent policy efforts, the federal Race to the Top (RTTT) competition and the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) waivers have highlighted the importance of ensuring highly effective instruction as a central policy consideration, primarily through increased attention t...

introduction. students' evaluation of teaching is a major concern in higher education. in this regard, during the past 30 years hundreds of papers have been published which because of various grounds from valid, reliable to useless, such papers cannot be easily summarized. the present study investigated for two purposes, first was to out line opinions of two groups of advocates and opposit...

How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...

Using an innovative method, a Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT) was created to explore the implicit theories of intelligence among science and liberal arts teachers and their relationships with their gender. The results showed that for science teachers—especially for male teachers—there was a negative implicit association between “intelligence” and “modifiable” stimuli, whereas l...

OBJECTIVES Many adults mention past incidences of verbal abuse by the teacher as the most overwhelming negative experience in their lives. The present study examined (1) the course and stability of verbal abuse by the teacher from kindergarten through grade 4 and (2) the link between verbal abuse by the teacher and children's behavioral, emotional, and academic adjustment. DESIGN Participants...

Despite national guidelines to reform K-12 science education, our students are not learning science any better. Conducted under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a symposium examined several programs where professional scientists interact with classroom teachers to improve science education. Symposium participants described their projects and discussed the...

Many p ro fess iona ls i n ag r i cu l tu ra l educa t ion be l i eve tha t t he pu r p o s e s o f v o c a t i o n a l a g r i c u l t u r e I n t h e s e c o n d a r y s c h o o l s c a n n o t b e accomp l i shed w i thou t superv i sed occupa t iona l exper ience (SOE) programs. A t t h e s a m e time, t h e r e I s a g r o w i n g c o n c e r n t h a t S O E p r o g r a m s are d e c l i n...

This paper first defines the 'English for Specific Purposes' (ESP) approach to language teaching in terms of absolute and variable characteristics offered by Dudley-Evans in the plenary speech of the first Japan Conference on English for Specific Purposes. Then, under the headings of teacher, collaborator, course designer and materials provider, researcher, and evaluator proposed by DudleyEvans...