Teaching Efficacy of Elementary Students Teachers

Developing preservice teachers’ self-efficacy through field-based science teaching practice with elementary students

Thirty preservice teachers enrolled in a field-based science methods course were placed at a public elementary school for coursework and for teaching practice with elementary students. Candidates focused on building conceptual understanding of science content and pedagogical methods through innovative curriculum development and other course assignments during the first ten weeks. Teaching pract...

Elementary School Teachers\' Classroom Management Skills and Students\' Self-Efficacy

Elementary School Teachers' Classroom Management Skills and Students' Self-Efficacy A. Khedrikhaanaabaadi H. Poorshaafe'i, Ph.D. Given the fact that Iranian educational system is mostly teacher-based and the students' development is owed mostly to teachers' interactions with them, a question can be asked on the relationship between teachers' classroom management and students' ...

an investigation into elt teachers’ sense of self-efficacy in teaching reading comprehension and their personality types

as far as bandura’s (1977) conceptualization of the sense of self-efficacy is concerned, it is argued to be context- and even task-specific, compared to other concepts like self-esteem (brown, 2000); therefore, upon the previous research studies, related theories and definitions, and the ideas and views obtained from the interviews conducted with the scholars, the current research study aimed a...

Teachers’ teaching styles, sense of efficacy and reflectivity as correlates of students’ achievement outcomes

There is nowadays a burgeoning research base, mostly in mainstream education, acknowledging that teachers have the most important impact on students' achievement outcomes. This line of research, however, has not yet found its way into second language pedagogy and little, if any, empirical evidence exists on which set of EFL teacher characteristics promotes positive student learning outcomes. In...

Guided Imagery's Effects on the Mathematics Teaching Efficacy of Elementary Preservice Teachers