This study aims to examine the change in teachers’ beliefs about training, presented as an online education for children’s literature and mathematics teaching pre-service pre-school, primary elementary teachers. The participants of research consisted 54 teachers who were selected by purposive sampling method. A weak experimental pre-test post-test design without a control group was used study. ...

Is practitioners’ integration of ICT use into subject teaching motivated by a concern to "tick the right boxes" or a belief that it promotes "genuine useful learning"? This study took place in a climate of significant government investment in ICT resources and an intensified focus on approaches to whole school improvement through embedding technology in teaching, learning and management. Resear...

Steering a motorcycle or bicycle is counterintuitive; to turn right, you must steer left initially, and vice versa. You can execute this initially counter-directed turn by turning the handlebars explicitly ~called counter-steering! or by throwing your hips to the side. Contrary to common belief, gyroscopic forces play only a limited role in balancing and steering @D. E. H. Jones, Phys. Today 23...

Following from previous research on intensity bias and the accessibility model of emotional self-report, the present study examined the role of emotional exhaustion in explaining the discrepancy in teachers' reports of their trait (habitual) versus state (momentary, "real") emotions. Trait reports (habitual emotions, exhaustion) were assessed via trait questionnaires, and state reports (momenta...

Teacher language awareness and its relationship to pedagogical practice (Andrews, 2003) have been identified as significant contributors to the teaching of grammar. Various TESOL programs teach pedagogical and theoretical grammar in different ways and some focus on specific approaches to grammar teaching, which include systemic functional grammar, transformational grammar, traditional grammar a...

The Tanzanian education system is in transition from face-to-face classroom learning to elearning. E-learning is a new learning approach in Tanzanian Higher Learning Institutions [HLIs] and with teachers being the key stakeholders of all formal education, investigating their attitude towards e-learning is essential. So far, however, there has been little consideration given to research that exa...

T he heart of accountability under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act is an attempt to change the existing incentives in schools with the ultimate objective that all students meet a proficiency standard. Existing research indicates that nothing is more important to high achieve­ ment as having effective teachers, implying that the impact of new incentives on teachers will be central to any con...

Background: The common psychiatric disorder of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the knowledge of teachers about it are well discussed in literature. While teachers can play an important role for the management of ADHD, it is not clear whether informing of teachers about children with ADHD affects their behavior and attitude toward the children. In the present study, we studie...