The purpose of this research is to find out how Facebook and Web 2.0 tools create a positive effect when used in education and to investigate teachers’ opinions about the Online learning environment. This experimental study was carried out in primary and secondary schools with teachers who use Facebook. The study took six weeks and 30 hours. The teachers attended lessons and accessed materials ...

INTRODUCTION The analysis of the representations of the health of their students by teachers is key to the understanding of the attitudes and behaviors that, in general, take place inside the school community and the educational processes. In fact, social attitudes by teachers and individual within the school environment are often the result of simple categorization and stereotypes, which hinde...

BACKGROUND Mental health literacy (MHL) is foundational for mental health promotion, prevention, stigma reduction, and care; School supported information pertaining to MHL in sub-Saharan Africa is extremely limited, including in Tanzania. Successful application of a school MHL curriculum resource may be an effective way to increase teacher MHL and therefore help to improve mental health outcome...

This policy brief examines the distribution, effectiveness, and persistence of individuals entering the teaching profession with different forms of preparation. In comparison to teachers prepared by the University of North Carolina system, we find that: (1) North Carolina Independent College and University prepared teachers are less effective in middle grades mathematics and 5th and 8th grade s...

Bu ara?t?rma ortaokul matematik ö?retmenlerinin matematiksel modelleme hakk?ndaki fark?ndaliklar?n? belirlemek amac?yla yap?lm??t?r. Ara?t?rmada karma yöntemlerinin s?ral? tasar?m grubundan N?TEL>nitel tasar?m? yöntem olarak kullan?lm??t?r. Ara?t?rman?n çal??ma grubunu Do?u Anadolu Bölgesinin orta ölçekli bir iline ba?l? ortaokullarda görev yapmakta olan 29 ö?retmeni olu?turmaktad?r. Ver...

OBJECTIVE Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training in schools is recommended to increase bystander CPR and thereby survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but despite mandating legislation, low rates of implementation have been observed in several countries, including Denmark. The purpose of the study was to explore barriers to implementation of CPR training in Danish secondary schools....

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to find out the knowledge and practices of oral hygiene methods among primary and secondary school teachers in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS The study was carried out using a self-administered questionnaire. Four hundred and seventy teachers, male 236 (50.2%) and female 234 (48.8%) responded with a response rate of 85.5%. The study was cond...