How do we teach our CLIL teachers? A case study from Alcalá University

How We Learn from Our Teachers

Teach For America’s size and reach gives it a unique vantage point on educational inequity in America. Since its inception in 1990, Teach For America has recruited, selected, trained, and supported over twenty thousand teachers in urban and rural low-income communities across the country. Currently hundreds of Teach For America program staff, many of whom were highly effective teachers themselv...

How do teachers teach? Insights from teachers and students

A Study of Student-Teachers’ Assertiveness From professors' view: Case Study of Farhangian University, Kermanshah Province

Assertiveness as a life skill is considered the core of inter-personal behaviors and key to human interactions, and is the result of social interaction which is produced and reproduced in socialization and re-socialization process. The current article, on the one hand, seeks to study the procedures that are asserted by student-teachers in their interactions with professors, staff and other stud...

How Do Teachers Learn to Teach Effectively? Quality Indicators from Quality Schools

The standards-based reform and accountability movements have emphasized the importance of integrating a number of elements to create powerful learning environments for all children. Standardized testing, accountability, aligned curriculum, and teaching materials are critical components in the school reform equation. However, the importance of teachers who have “the right” knowledge and skill—an...

What Do We Expect from Our Friends?∗

We conduct a field experiment in a large real-world social network to examine how subjects expect to be treated by their friends and by strangers who make allocation decisions in modified dictator games. While recipients’ beliefs accurately account for the extent to which friends will choose more generous allocations than strangers (i.e. directed altruism), recipients are not able to anticipate...