How Do Teachers Perceive Limiting Factors?: Remote English Teaching Context

Job Performance of Iranian English Teachers: Do Teaching Experience and Gender Make a Difference?

In the available teacher development literature, the linkage between teaching experience, as one the crucial factors in teacher development (Tsui, 2005), and English teachers’ job performance with regard to gender differences has remain widely underexplored. To fill up this lacuna, this study investigated whether there was any significant correlation between Iranian English teachers’ years of e...

How do teachers perceive educational robots in formal education? A study based on the Thymio robot*

Robots have generated interest in schools since Seymour Papert’s works; however when his Logo turtles were introduced into schools in the 1980s, they proved to be unreliable, expensive, and limited [1]. Since then, we have seen various affordable, reliable, and polyvalent platforms such as Lego Mindstorms [1] or the Bee-Bot [2]. Robotics has become more appealing, and it is an established fact ...

How do respiratory patients perceive oxygen therapy

Oxygen therapy is a common intervention in healthcare worldwide; yet, despite universal use, it is evident through poor practice that oxygen is often prescribed and administered injudiciously. It is proposed that possibly an influencing culture presides, whereby oxygen is often poorly understood and uncertainty regarding its use exists. It is unclear where the origins of this culture lie but it...

How Student Teachers Develop Theories of Teaching

The teaching profession continues to have difficulty in codifying a body of knowledge on which to base pre-service teacher education programs. One problem is the gap between the student teachers’ theoretical beliefs and their practical experiences in classrooms. Student teachers often fail to implement their ideas and instead comply with the status quo in the classroom. Previous research has id...

How do teachers teach? Insights from teachers and students