The purpose of this study was to describe student teachers’ perceptions and preferences of the type of supervision they experienced while interacting with their university supervisors and cooperating teachers. Results revealed that student teachers perceived both their cooperating teachers and university supervisors to engage in contextual and clinical supervision practices. Cooperating teacher...

225 Descriptive statistics for teachers' reported self-efficacy 226 Descriptive statistics for classroom environment 227 Teachers' characteristics and classroom disciplinary climate and teachers' self-efficacy 229 Teachers' professional development and classroom disciplinary climate and teachers' self-efficacy 231 Teaching practices, beliefs and attitudes and classroom disciplinary climate and ...

English pronunciation instruction is difficult for some reasons. Teachers are left without clear guidelines and are faced with contradictory practices for pronunciation instruction. There is no well-established systematic method of deciding what to teach, when, and how to do it. As a result of these problems, pronunciation instruction is less important and teachers are not very comfortable in t...

BACKGROUND Health professionals' attitudes toward shared decision-making (SDM) are an important facilitator of SDM, but information on these attitudes is limited. AIMS The purpose of this study is to examine attitudes, education and practices around SDM and risk communication in residents and their teachers. METHOD A questionnaire was mailed to residents in Swiss hospitals in postgraduate m...

Pre-service and practicing teachers feel responsible for a range of educational activities. Four domains of personal responsibility emerging in the literature are: student achievement, student motivation, relationships with students, and responsibility for ones own teaching. To date, most research has used variable-centered approaches to examining responsibilities even though the domains appear...

AIM The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitudes, and practices of school teachers toward oral health. SETTINGS AND DESIGN Descriptive study. MATERIALS AND METHODS School teachers (n = 150) of Davangere city were recruited into this study. The subjects completed a questionnaire that aimed to evaluate teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and practices on oral health. STATISTICAL...