This article is aimed at the teacher confronted with emerging technologies but with no experience in using them in the classroom. The author emphasizes the correlation between learning new skills oneself and feeling comfortable enough to integrate them in student activities. For example, the teacher can become familiar with using e-mail, and then confidently devise languagebased tasks for the s...

The quality of education being delivered is a critical issue in American society. Teachers who are satisfied with their work and have a strong sense of purpose tend to have programs which produce successful students. Researchers have found that the quality of education being delivered is a function of the teacher’s level of of job satisfaction (Bowen, 1981) and degree of teacher effectiveness (...

Self, peer and teacher reports of social relationships were examined for 60 high-functioning children with ASD. Compared to a matched sample of typical children in the same classroom, children with ASD were more often on the periphery of their social networks, reported poorer quality friendships and had fewer reciprocal friendships. On the playground, children with ASD were mostly unengaged but...

Attachment influences students’ school success. This is true of students’ attachment to their parents, as well as to their teachers. Secure attachment is associated with higher grades and standardized test scores compared to insecure attachment. Secure attachment is also associated with greater emotional regulation, social competence, and willingness to take on challenges, and with lower levels...

According to even the most conservative estimates, at least a quarter of deaf children have additional disabilities. Most teacher preparation programs do not sufficiently prepare teacher candidates for the challenges posed by these children. This article describes a professional development effort to prepare in-service educators of the deaf to work with students with additional disabilities. Ov...

Group work, projects and discussions are important components of teacher education courses whether they are face-toface, blended or exclusively online formats. This paper examines the varieties of tasks and challenges with this learning format in a face to face class teacher education class providing specific examples of both failure and success from both the student and instructor perspective....

The experimental tools for multimedia-supported interactive lecture presented in this paper have as their main goal to improve the quality of the presence lecture by using state-of-the-art presentation tools and wireless infrastructure communication techniques. Thus, the lecture is enriched with multimedia and computer-supported interaction between students and teacher, in order to improve thei...

Dr Neda Voutsa-Perdiki, former Director of Exfoliative Cytology at the University of Florida (Florida, USA), talks about her academic teacher Dr George N. Papanicοlaou, referred to as the 'Father of Exfoliative Cytology', and his wife Mache, known as Mary Papanicolaou. According to Dr Voutsa-Perdiki, Dr Papanicolaou was an exceptional teacher and a unique humanitarian in modern medical history....

The study investigated the styles of learning and thinking, study habits, achievement motivation of teacher trainees along with their attitude towards teaching and perception for B.Ed. course. It also explored the predictors that may determine the academic success of these pre-service teachers. The data were analyzed by employing product moment correlation, factor analysis and multiple regressi...

The focus of this chapter is the provision of teacher professional development as needed – just in time. The specific context is the application of peer mentoring in teaching and learning with interactive whiteboards. Data was gathered from two research projects that investigated aspects of teachers mentoring colleagues in Australia. In both projects lessons were video recorded and the teachers...