.........................................................................................................xi CHAPTER I Introduction ...................................................................................1 Parental Involvement and Student Achievement..........................................................2 Parental Involvement in Special Education ......................................

A key factor in successful teacher education is designing activities that promote attainment of instructional objectives. However, in online teacher education there is little evidence regarding the types of activities that can be used to achieve specific objectives and variation from class to class while providing effective instruction. This study examined 6 online activities focused on the typ...

This paper describes the developments and results of a special student teacher course used in several European countries, originally developed in Finland in close cooperation between the University of Helsinki and Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre. The integrative science education course already started in 1996. It combines formal teaching and informal learning opportunities. The main target...

The Nature of Teacher Research Barbara Henderson, PhD, is a professor of education at San Francisco State University. She co-coordinates the MA program in Education, Early Childhood Education Concentration, and teacher graduate and credential classes. Her interests are teacher research and children’s development in cultural contexts. She is also co-editor of the online teacher research journal ...

The importance of teachers and the roles they play in the educative process are central to basic education, particularly in third world countries, there may be close substitutes for teacher-roles in the form of teaching machines with programmed instruction (Balogun 1988) but in third world countries such as Nigeria, teachers undoubtedly remain the managers of knowledge. Therefore, teacher educa...