The aim of the present study was to analyze teachers' pedagogical designs, plans of organized technology-supported, collective student inquiry. Ten teachers in Finland designed and implemented eight, inquiry-learning units ("designs") in 12 primary and secondary level classrooms in various subject domains. The guiding principles behind the designs were the objectives of progressive inquiry, suc...

The Social-Moral Pedagogical Message of Cardinal Stefan Wyszy?ski Taking into account the specificity pedagogical message in teaching field social-moral upbringing, author recalls arguments confirming its objective and timeless value. Striving for a synthetic view actuality attractiveness Primate’s thought, he draws attention to following: What kind man teacher was Primate Wyszy?ski? How did un...

The purpose of this study was to investigate teachers’ characteristics based on the implications of Ministry of Education’s strategic plans. This applied research utilized qualitative content analysis with a conventional approach and was a library research in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the study was comprised of Ministry of Education’s strategic plans, i.e., the The...

though the meaning of time seems to be the same for all people, it becomes a complicated, important and relative concept in mysticism which cannot be grasped easily because each mystic understands and interprets it differently depending on the states he experiences; even the same mystic may have diverse interpretations of it in various states and conditions. this paper aims to investigate the s...

The Teaching Games for Understanding (TGfU) and Sport Education (SE) pedagogical models share several objectives and pedagogical processes. Despite this seemingly uncanny relationship, few studies have examined the efficacy of a hybrid TGfU/SE pedagogical model, particularly how a teacher's utilization of such a model impacts on student motivation. The purpose of the current study was to invest...

Effective pedagogical practice promotes the achievement of students and builds up confidence of the teachers in teaching. The major cause for the gap in pedagogical practices can be attributed to the lack of pedagogical competence. The present study employed a mixed method research approach to examine Iranian high school English Language teachers’ perception of pedagogical competence in two pha...

The study examined the impact of high school English teachers’ awareness of pedagogical competence on student learning. A psychometric measurement instrument of English language teachers' pedagogical competence (ELTPC) was first developed through factor analysis with 320 high school teachers in Guilan, Northern Iran. Based on the developed instrument, 36 teachers were divided into two groups of...