The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of general education teachers who have had a student with severe disabilities in their class. Interviews of 19 general education teachers, kindergarten through Grade 9, as well as questionnaires completed by 18 teachers, were analyzed using categorical coding procedures to identify themes related to the teachers' experiences. Results sho...

Since the 1970s studies on teacher stress have become numerous. However, most of the existing research has been the product of western countries. There have been a few studies conducted in the People’s Republic of China. This study aims to investigate the general level of Chinese math teachers’ stress, its main sources, and the coping methods. The questionnaire, which was used in Taiwan (Kyriac...

conclusions the results of the current study showed that school teachers’ lacked knowledge regarding dental trauma and especially tooth avulsion. results a total of 269 teachers, 41.6% male and 58.4% female, answered the questionnaire. the results showed that 15.2 % of the teachers had an experience of avulsed tooth at school, all of them knew the importance of emergency management and 36.4% wo...

INTRODUCTION The study aimed to determine hepatitis B vaccination status and assess the exposure of risk factors for hepatitis B and C among primary schoolteachers in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODOLOGY In two hundred school teachers from 30 primary schools in Karachi participated in the study between January and June 2008 by completing an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire. Exposure to an...

objective: the goal of this study was to evaluate primary school teachers' knowledge regarding emergency management of avulsed permanent incisors. materials and methods: the study was conducted in fifty randomly chosen primary schools from casablanca, morocco. all teachers of the selected schools were included in the study. the data were collected by self administered questionnaires. the questi...

BACKGROUND College teachers in China are confronted with a lot of pressure from teaching, researching and living. They are suffering from impaired physical and mental health. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between organizational behavior factors and college teachers' health related quality of life (HRQOL), and to confirm whether they are positive resources for im...

The study presents efforts to support pre-service primary school teachers in learning and teaching about scientific models, and discusses the impact of these efforts on their understandings. We provided pre-service primary school teachers with a module on computer modeling and studied the effects of this experience on their abilities to construct viable scientific models with a computer-modelin...

he study investigated the influence of teachers’ participation in Decision Making on their job performances in secondary schools in Oredo Local Government Area. It also examined teachers’ participation in decision making in both public and private schools. The study identified job performance of both male and female teachers in secondary schools. four hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0....