Remembering Professional Commitments: Trusting in Teachers

Expectations of Teachers from Teachers Professional Development Program in Nepal

Teachers’ Professional Development (TPD) has been realized a powerful approach to implement child friendly activity based education for education in the twenty first century. Though there are at least six models of teachers development, teacher training is the mostly used model in Nepalese context. It has been realized the important of expectations of teachers in TPD program to make TPD bottom-...

Understanding CS Teachers’ Professional Identity

Currently, we are facing big challenges of preparing and supporting K-12 CS teachers. In addition to increasing the number of CS teachers, there is a great need of supporting those teachers to grow and retain as committed, quality teachers. As suggested by teacher identity theory, teachers’ sense of commitment and (other aspects of) teaching profession is tightly linked with their sense of iden...

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

Professional diversity and personal commitments of pediatric otolaryngologists.

OBJECTIVE To characterize the time demands and practice patterns of pediatric otolaryngologists. DESIGN Prospective survey of members from the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology. RESULTS The survey response rate was 54% (n = 136) of practicing members of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Respondents described being actively engaged in clinical otolaryngology (99%),...

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...