OBJECTIVE The study examined teachers' perceptions of bullying by other teachers to see what causes and characteristics were attributed to such bullying teachers, and how often teachers were themselves bullied by students. METHOD 116 teachers from seven elementary schools completed an anonymous questionnaire reflecting their feelings and perceptions about their own experiences of bullying, an...

few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. this study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. to this end, 60...

PURPOSE Teachers' perspectives on eye health can be limited, particularly in developing countries. The aim of this study was to assess teachers' knowledge and practices associated with eye health of primary students in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of primary school teachers. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 443 participants from 34 private...

For identifying children with four major kinds of verbal learning disabilities viz. reading disability, speech and language comprehension disability, writing disability and mathematics disability, the present task was undertaken to construct and standardize verbal learning disabilities checklist. The checklist was developed by keeping in view the Indian school and social situations where school...

This article presents case studies detailing the learning trajectories of two physical education (cooperating) teachers as they strive to establish and maintain their identity as competent and confident supervisors to pre-service teachers on school placement. The cooperating teachers who participated in the study share their experiences in attempting to construct a professional identity within ...

Professional development in schools is often conducted to assist teachers in curriculum, instruction, and general pedagogy. Little emphasis is placed on social-emotional issues experienced by teachers, although high levels of stress and burnout are common. School counselors are in an ideal position to support teachers by providing consultation focused on social-emotional health. This qualitativ...

In this paper, the implementation of a neural network-based fuzzy modeling approach to assess aspects of students’ learning style in the discovery learning environment ‘‘Vectors in Physics and Mathematics’’ is presented. Fuzzy logic is used to provide a linguistic description of students’ behavior and learning characteristics, as they have been elicited from teachers, and to handle the inherent...

A paradox has arisen in the literature on information and communication technologies (ICT) appropriation by teachers during their internship and professional induction. On the one hand, some studies show that, at the completion of their basic training, new teachers have a good grounding in technology skills (Clausen 2007; Karsenti et al. 2007), feel fairly confident about using ICT (Moore and C...

Abstract Despite the widespread recognition of significance outdoor play in early childhood development, centers for education (ECE) face challenge striking a balance between active activities and safety concerns. Thus, visual attention teachers is critical. Studies that compare novice experienced traditionally focus on instructional settings instead recreational play. This study examines effec...