The purpose of the research was to get insights into the ways learning strategies typically used by adult learners can be taken into consideration when designing web-based courses to facilitate learning in teacher education. Teacher students wrote narratives in discussion forums by completing various types of group projects. The relevant theoretical frameworks regarding the transfer effect, lea...

The following paper describes the initial experience of a major international examination board in setting up and running an email discussion group for teachers of a syllabus taught in more than 80 countries. In it we describe how the group was established, how its members used it, and contrast this with our experience of similar teacher groups in the UK.

In this paper we present our experience in using visualization in mathematics education. The experience with our university courses: “Computer tools in matematics” and “Symbolic algebra” provides the basis for mathematics teacher education program http://vizuelizacija.etf.rs/. The program is intended for elementary and high school teachers. The education program deals with modern techniques of ...

Associate teachers play a significant role in the preparation of pre-service teachers in Canadian universities. The literature on the subject indicates that the practicum component of the pre-service teacher education is considered by teacher candidates to be their most valuable learning experience. Therefore, Faculties of Education are constantly exploring new ways of engaging associates in re...

BillingsMentor is an automated Web-based service for the Billings Method of natural family planning in which the guidance and interpretation previously communicated from teacher to student is provided by programmed algorithms. There are two functions: (1) to instruct the client to generate proper descriptions of her fertility symptoms; and (2) to interpret the symptoms efficiently according to ...

this study examines differences in non-native efl teachers’ beliefs about grammar and teaching grammar. the differences were sought across teachers’ work environment- private school versus state schools-, degree, gender, and teaching experience. a sample of 130 efl teachers teaching at junior high school, high schools, and private language institutes were randomly selected. the sample consisted...

The potential of tablets to support collaborative inquiry-based science learning and reflective thinking in preschool has previously been investigated by us through the analysis of teacher-led activities. These included the children making timelapse photography and Slowmation movies and we reported an enhanced and focused reasoning about water phase changes in situations where timelapse movies ...

OBJECTIVES Many adults mention past incidences of verbal abuse by the teacher as the most overwhelming negative experience in their lives. The present study examined (1) the course and stability of verbal abuse by the teacher from kindergarten through grade 4 and (2) the link between verbal abuse by the teacher and children's behavioral, emotional, and academic adjustment. DESIGN Participants...

this research proceeded historical analyzing of currere as autobiographical course in reconceptualist works. therefore, reconceptualist works studied by discourse analyzing. unit of analyzing was sentenced and its level was an explanation. in order to research questions data divided to four categories: meaning of currere, methods of currere, stages of currere and politic and sociologic base in ...