In exploring the potential for mentoring to support novice teachers’ use of effective teaching practices, we conducted a grounded theory analysis about change potential. Themes emerging from cross-case analysis of survey, interview, and observation data from six beginning primary teachers in the US and their mentors revealed factors, other than type of mentoring programme, that related to begin...

Many areas of the United States face shortage of teachers who have studied a significant amount of physics at the university. To provide secondary school students with a course in physics many states allow teachers of other sciences and mathematics to become physics teachers. These teachers must complete some minimal number of physics courses at the university. To help these teachers understand...

In this paper we propose a theoretical approach of teachers’ professional development, focusing on teachers’ interactions with resources, digital resources in particular. Documents, entailing resources and schemes of utilization of these resources, are developed through documentational geneses occurring along teachers’ documentation work (selecting resources, adapting, combining, refining them)...

OBJECTIVE Teachers often experience burnout and challenges during their active career. Different studies have shown that those directly involved with teaching children with special needs are more subject to burnout. Due to advance screening tools, more children with autism are now diagnosed and involved in special education. The aim of the present study was to investigate the professional burno...

The present study was under taken at District Dir Lower Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan in order to know about the knowledge, attitude and practices of teachers towards epileptic students. This cross sectional study was carried out among teachers from both public and private sector schools (Primary, Middle and High). A self-administered closed ended KAP questionnaire was administered among 150 teac...

OBJECTIVE To investigate evidence of an association between school teaching and mortality from autoimmune diseases. METHODS A proportional mortality study using US death certificates from the 1985-95 period was conducted. Death certificates that listed elementary or secondary school teaching as the usual occupation were identified, as were those that cited any of 13 autoimmune diseases as a c...

the present study is an investigation into the relationship between iranian efl teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. to this end, six female english teachers and 81 male and female advanced english learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. data were collected through torrance test of creative thinking (ttct) and stude...

HOW TO CITE: Stears M, Clément P, James A, Dempster E. Creationist and evolutionist views of South African teachers with different religious affiliations. S Afr J Sci. 2016;112(5/6), Art. #2015-0226, 10 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/ sajs.2016/20150226 Concerns have been raised in the scientific community that many teachers do not accept evolution as a scientific, testable phenomenon, and t...

PURPOSE To identify in a town of Brazil the knowledge, attitude and perception of epilepsy in teachers of elementary schools and to compare these before and after a training exercise. METHODS Teachers of nine public schools of Barão Geraldo, Campinas, Brazil completed a questionnaire. Two researchers had meetings with teachers, presenting the Global Campaign "Epilepsy out of the shadows", whe...

This study sought to compare Iranian EFL novice and expert teachers regarding their professional knowledge at Iranian language institutes and universities. To achieve the aim of study, a questionnaire was developed based on the literature, the theoretical framework and the results of a qualitative study. This questionnaire was administered to the whole sample of the study who was 200 Iranian EF...