HOW TEACHERS OF PHYSICS ARE “MADE IN GERMANY.”

How Fertilizer Recommendations Are Made

Recommendation, as we use the word here, means advice from a soil or crop specialist to those deciding how much of, what form of, and when to apply a fertilizer to a soil to benefit growth of a plant or crop. Recommendations of fertilizers and soil amendments must consider the interactions of all the factors discussed in this manual, including the soil, the crop, the climate, the beneficial eff...

How Are Teachers Using Computers in Instruction?

How teachers and teacher training are changing

While the 20th century school focused on teaching, the 21st century school may well focus on learning. The role of teachers is changing to reflect this trend, and consequently teacher training processes are also changing. Teachers are becoming managers and facilitators of learning. To enhance children's learning, they design, adapt, manage and evaluate learning environments. These functions req...

How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?

Although there is evidence that teacher emotional intelligence is important for pupil adjustment and learning and for teachers in managing the emotional demands of their work, little is known about the levels of emotional skill of teachers and beginning teachers. Using Mayer and Salovey’s emotional intelligence (EI) model and the MSCEIT test of EI, this study investigates how emotionally skille...

New insights into how seeds are made

Citation: Sabelli PA and Larkins BA (2015) New insights into how seeds are made. It is difficult to overstate the importance of seeds for the evolutionary success of the spermato-phytes and the development of human cultures and their survival. For hundreds of millions of years since their appearance in the Devonian period, seed plants have colonized many environments , thanks in part to several...