INTRODUCTION Childhood obesity disproportionately affects rural populations; therefore, promoting healthy eating among rural children is essential. Teachers are important role models for children and can influence children's eating behaviors through their own behaviors and beliefs about food. This study examined the food-related practices and beliefs of rural elementary and middle school teache...

Lesson plan is a written description of education process in which it is shown what, when, where and with which method learners should learn and how they should be assessed. Lesson plan is one of the key factors in the educational process. According to the literature available, unfortunately few studies have been conducted on this issue in the context of Iran. Therefo...

AIM To assess, by means of self-administered structured questionnaire, the level of knowledge of primary schools teachers in Ajman with regards to the immediate emergency management of dental trauma. MATERIALS AND METHODS The questionnaire was sent to teachers in randomly selected primary schools in Ajman. A total of 161 teachers responded (response rate 84.4%). The questionnaire surveyed tea...

This study investigated whether new teaching resources and minimal support could help teachers make a difference to children's understanding of decimal numeration. Three schools were offered resources and a professional development session specifically to address the common misconceptions children have about decimal numbers. One school agreed to participate, and four teachers were supplied with...

This study refers to an experiment on teaching probabilities, conducted in Greece at preschools in Athens and Ioannina. The aim of this study was to assess teachers on how they introduced common statistical concepts to children throughout the academic year of 2004-2005. Moreover, this study presents a new didactical model on the way we tried to educate preschool teachers on how to introduce to ...

Keeping pace with the continuous changes and innovations in the field of English language teaching is considered to be a necessity for the quality of teachers' teaching. There are numerous approaches to teacher development, among which self-initiated development stands as one of the noticeable trends. Although teacher development is crucial for the quality of education, it appears that there ar...

Personalization is the next step in the evolution of eLearning systems. Students can have several cognitive styles, which make the efficiency and efficacy of an eLearning system different with distinct students. The three different viewpoints [21] and evolution in the area of e-Learning are pedagogy (learneroriented educational theories), pragmatic (practical solutions to use of instructional c...