Teacher self-efficacy has been identified as an important characteristic of teachers that can positively influence both teacher and student outcomes. The relationship between teachers’ self-efficacy and their linguistic proficiency, however, is yet to be investigated. The present study was an attempt to examine the rather under-researched issue of teachers’ level of linguistic competence in the...

Teacher preparation is a highly contested area in England with a range of epistemological approaches potentially being promoted through the availability of a range of preparation routes. The dominant model of teacher preparation used by programmes led by university education departments is that of developing reflective practitioners. However, other models, including those coined as ‘craftworker...

Using data from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), this study implements two statistical analyses to investigate effects of student and teacher characteristics on students’ mathematical achievement. First, authors conduct an exploratory factor analysis explore structure various variables interest in study. Second, they perform hierarchical linear modeling analyze teacher...

Although decades of research have well elaborated on teacher professional development, we still do not have a thorough picture about what teacher professional development could entail and what components it consists of. The present study aims to develop and validate a teacher professional development scale in an Iranian English foreign language context. An initial tentative model with 130 items...

In recent years, the concept stratified teaching is popular and accepted by most physical education teachers step by step. Just as its name implies, stratified teaching means carrying out targeted teaching activities according to each student’s characteristics. In physical education, the teacher must face the differences and train the athlete according to their individual characteristics.

crucial roles of teachers may affect students’ attitudes and motivations to language learning. to improve the field of foreign language teaching and learning we need to improve the qualities of efl teachers; hence, recognizing and identifying the qualities of effective efl teachers is essential. so this study attempted to investigate the characteristics of effective english language teachers ba...