background: the common psychiatric disorder of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) and the knowledge of teachers about it are well discussed in literature. while teachers can play an important role for the management of adhd, it is not clear whether informing of teachers about children with adhd affects their behavior and attitude toward the children. in the present study, we studie...

maslach and jackson first introduced the concept of ‘burnout’- a state of physical and emotional exhaus- tion emerging from work conditions- in 1980. the importance of investigations of burn out lies in the fact that it is directly related to the quality of teaching. there are three basic criteria set to predict, evaluate, and prevent burnout: depersonalization, emotional exhaustion, and person...

While there is a growing interest in infusing engineering into elementary classrooms, very little is known about how well positioned elementary teachers are to teach engineering. This study examined elementary teachers’ perceptions of and familiarity with design, engineering, and technology (DET). We collected data from 192 elementary teachers using the DET teacher survey. While these elementar...

Applying a modified-Delphi technique, this research study sought consensus from business education mentor teachers regarding the top three areas in which business education student teachers were prepared as well as underprepared for their roles as teachers. Further, the mentor teachers provided recommendations for business education teacher preparation programs to implement to better prepare th...

In recent years, young college English teachers’ professional development has become a core issue. The traditional training of young teachers ignored the empirical, experiencing and diversifying nature of language teachers’ professional development. From the perspective of constructivism, this paper elaborates the impacts of teaching reflection on young college English teachers and highlights f...

To obtain the development and change of teachers’ strategic knowledge in teachers’ online community of practice (TOCP) in China, content analysis, video case analysis and statistical analysis methods were adopted to study 45 teachers (15 novice teachers, 15 key teachers, and 15 experienced teachers) from three participating schools during three phases. The development and change of different te...

background and purpose: the fact that who is more qualified to teach the emp (english for medical purposes) courses has long been the cause of argument between the heads of language departments (lds) on one side and those of discipline-specific departments(dsds) on the other side. this research was conducted to study the views of both sides as well as those of students in some emp english class...

BACKGROUND Once high levels of work-related stress among teachers were confirmed many studies concentrated on identifying and investigating key stress factors among school teachers. Unfortunately there are very few researches made on stress causing factors among teachers in Republic of Macedonia. AIM To determine the most frequent stress causing factors among teachers in elementary schools an...

Currently, we are facing big challenges of preparing and supporting K-12 CS teachers. In addition to increasing the number of CS teachers, there is a great need of supporting those teachers to grow and retain as committed, quality teachers. As suggested by teacher identity theory, teachers’ sense of commitment and (other aspects of) teaching profession is tightly linked with their sense of iden...

a significant share of classroom interaction occurs between teachers and language learners. therefore, the individual characteristics of teachers could play facilitative or impeding roles thus encouraging or discouraging learners from getting engaged in interaction and meaning negotiation attempts when interacting with their teachers. surprisingly however, this area has attracted scant attentio...