Professional learning: empowering teachers?

Empowering science teachers.

Human pigmentation varies considerably within and among populations and is a function of both variation in exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) and the type and quantity of melanin produced in melanocytes (1). We examined the genetic basis of blond hair in Solomon Islanders, a population that differs from the general trend of darker skin and hair pigmentation near the equator where there is ...

What teachers’ want: Identifying mathematics teachers’ professional learning needs

Exploring animation: Professional learning for teachers

As new technologies offer an ever-increasing range of possibilities for supporting student learning, teachers struggle to keep abreast of the changes. This is especially the case for teachers in smaller rural schools who are isolated professionally from their colleagues. A group of teachers from four such schools in northern New South Wales combined to support each other in learning about anima...

Empowering Teachers with ICT Competencies

Educational systems around the world are under increasing pressure to use the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to provide students the knowledge and skill they need in the 21 Century, [1]: “designing and implementing successful ICT-enabled teacher education programmes is the key to fundamental, wide-ranging educational reforms”, [1]. Starting 1993, in the University of Unive...

Language Learning Materials Development for Teachers’ Professional Development

Coursebooks are normally written to contain information, instruction, exposure, and activities that learn- ers at a particular level need to enhance their communicative competence in the target language. Howev- er, many global course books make attempts to include content, topics, and texts that do not disadvantage any learner around the world. That is why global course books normally do ...