there have been many theories and paradigms trying to provideanswers to the challenge of the best method. after the rise of manycolorful language teaching methods, in postmethod era, it waspostulated that there is no magic formula to teach a foreign languagebut that a localized methodology based on learners and teachers’ experiencewill have suitable results. in this article, after investigating...

this study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers' personality type (feeling vs. thinking) and speaking skill of pre- intermediate efl students in iranian context. twelve teachers and forty eight students from a local language institute participated in the study. the myers briggs type indicator (mbti), an instrument based on jung’s personality theory, was taken from tea...

The purpose of this study is to explore inhibiting factors teachers in the United States have personally encountered or perceived in using games for instruction, and how teacher perceptions of barriers are influenced by their gender, teaching level and experience of using games for instruction. Four factors have been found to hinder teachers’ use of games in the classroom: challenges of impleme...

BACKGROUND Although teaching is considered a high-stress profession, research on stress-related outcomes among teachers, such as absence from work due to illness (i.e. sickness absence), remains scarce. It is possible that teachers are not a homogeneous group but include subgroups with particularly high risk of sickness absence, such as special education teachers. AIMS To examine differences ...

introduction:  vasectomy is a simple and highly effective contraceptive method. comparing with tubectomy, vasectomy is much less likely to have serious complications, failure and costs. the knowledge and attitude play an important role in approving and using vasectomy. this study was designed and conducted in zahedan high schools in 2002, to investigate the knowledge and attitude of male and fe...

background and purpose: this study intends to identify the numbers and some characteristics of the teachers of various english courses offered at medical universities affiliated to the ministry of health during the second semester of the academic year 2005-6. methods: the methods used in this research were “gathering existing data”, and “descriptive study”. the research was conducted by sending...

Findings from two ethnographic studies regarding teachers’ uses of computers from 1991 and 2004 are compared to discover how teachers’ experiences of computer have changed since the proliferation of computers in schools and how teachers’ experiences of computers have remained the same. Despite the tremendous increase in availability of computers in schools and modest progress in teachers’ compu...

One goal of this paper is to review efforts that attempt to provide tools for evaluating computer programs in general and educational computer programs in particular. These tools include open tools and closed tools in the form of ‘forms’ which in turn include an online form which gives the score for the computer program which you evaluate, depending on your own evaluation. Another goal is to re...

This quasiexperimental study measured the impact of Project Lead the Way (PLTW) instruction and professional development training on the views and expectations regarding engineering learning, instruction and career success of nascent precollege engineering teachers. PLTW teachers’ initial and changing views were compared to the views exhibited by a matching group of high school STEM teachers. T...

Comparing selected and all-class teachers Two studies which compared the training and use of a few selected teachers (STs) and use of ‘all class teachers’ (ACTs) or ‘more class teachers’ (MCTs) found that school screening with more teachers (i.e. fewer children screened per teacher) identified more ocular conditions requiring intervention, including refractive error. In both instances, improved...