How does the literacy teacher negotiate the tensions between skills and social practice? Negotiation requires engaging with the debate in which literacy is seen as a set of discrete, transferable skills, dependent upon cognitive development, to the notion of literacies which are bound to social practice, and adapting teaching practices which align these two perspectives. Literacy teacher traini...

Using an innovative method, a Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT) was created to explore the implicit theories of intelligence among science and liberal arts teachers and their relationships with their gender. The results showed that for science teachers—especially for male teachers—there was a negative implicit association between “intelligence” and “modifiable” stimuli, whereas l...

Based on the traditional conception of teacher effectiveness, proposes three strategies for improving it: short-term, long-term and dynamic strategies. Argues that the dynamic strategy is preferable, but that all of them have strong limitations because they ignore the complexity of teacher effectiveness and narrow the concept to the individual teacher, particularly in a classroom context. Propo...

The article is devoted to the theoretical and empirical study of relationship between moral normativity a professional teacher motivation for success. analyzes concept (from point view proposed conventional approaches) as predictor teacher's activity. In context influence on success activity, authors turn phenomenon "macchiavelism", which reflects existence high correlation need achieve goals w...

BACKGROUND Brunei started implementing its two main reformed teacher education programs, MTeach and MEd, in 2009. The reasons for these innovations included upgrading the standard of teacher training, increasing teaching effectiveness, and improving the quality of education in the country. The purpose of this study was to determine how student teachers coped with and sought help on the challeng...

This research approaches initial teacher training from the perspective of structure and curriculum. During training, any disconnection between theoretical content practical application theory should be avoided. Therefore, this article proposes to study quality by determining predictive capacity academic performance with respect success in professional practices teachers training. An index valid...