To promote significant pedagogical change, the most successful teacher education programmes for the global south happen in the school context. This paper is based on a pre-pilot intervention study of an international education development programme in Bangladesh. Technology enhanced learning, in this case the use of Apple iPods (iPod touch), was used to support teachers’ teaching and learning i...

The aim of this qualitative study is to explore the role of the micropolitics of schools for gifted students in the EFL teachers’ professional interests in the workplace. Results of interviews revealed that to establish their professional interests, teachers involved in conflict and rivalry as well as collaboration and coalition. Furthermore, teachers’ micropolitical actions were in...

Purpose – This paper explores UK teachers’ use of research-based information, with a particular focus on issues relating to access to information in schools, information literacy, and the role of the school librarian and school library services. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopted a mixed methodology. Indepth qualitative data gathered through vignette interviews (n=28), group exerci...

Competence in one's professional work role is important in the overall learning process. Ready (1967) described competence as a motivational factor that is responsible for individual achievement. However, results of numerous studies reveal that vocational agriculture teachers are experiencing difficulties in the performance of several professional activities. Parrington (1981) reported that act...

The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) was established to develop and administer a voluntary system of advanced professional certification to recognize highly accomplished K–12 teachers. The standards guiding task development were developed by committees of teachers and scholars. To obtain the NBPTS certificate, teachers prepare an extensive portfolio demonstrating their...

This paper illustrates consideration of multiple facets of mathematics teacher knowledge through interviews, demonstrates how teachers have different knowledge profiles, and discusses the implications for professional development. This study focuses on interviews with eight teachers, which were analyzed using Ball, Thames, and Phelps’ (2008) framework of teacher knowledge, assigning knowledge t...

Implementation of inquiry-based curriculum materials has been a challenge in science education. Recent research points to the importance of coherence in professional development as a means to improving implementation. Policy researchers have defined coherence in terms of alignment of standards, curriculum, and assessment is key to supporting implementation, while teacher learning researchers ha...

In our era of increasing globalization, addressing the needs non-native English speakers required to use in course their professional and academic activities is utmost importance. Laurence Anthony’s Introducing for Specific Purposes latest contributor a long line research-based approaches intended support teaching learning (ESP). book, as an introduction ESP those with little no expe...

Founded by eight secondary English teachers in Seoul in the summer of 1988, the Korean English Teachers’ Group (KETG) started as a professional book discussion group. Its first ‘office’ was a small coffee table in the living room of a female teacher’s home. The teachers gathered over the weekend and discussed professional books or sets of articles mainly focused on educational philosophy and so...

Most mobile phones in the recent days have applications that perform many digital functions which can be utilized in different ways for educational improvement. Unfortunately, some of Nigerian technology teachers who possess these phones do not know the possibility of utilizing it for their professional development purpose. Hence the need to get them informed. The major purpose of this study wa...