This paper discusses the influence of family supportive supervisor behavior (FSSB) on Work-family enrichment (WFE) of female university teachers and the mediating role of Leader-member exchange (LMX) through analyzing 183 valid questionnaires. The result shows that emotional support, role modeling and creative workfamily management have significant positive effect on female university teachers’...

Formal educational systems in universities typically place responsibility for the student’s learning upon teachers. Teachers have the knowledge and their role is to motivate students to want that knowledge and then to provide it in a stimulating manner. The students’ role is to acquire knowledge and to change their attitudes and behavior in ways specified by the teacher. In effect, the traditio...

Mathematics is considered to be one of the key areas for growth and development in Egyptian schools (Monk et al., 1999). Therefore, reforming mathematics education has been given priority by the Egyptian Ministry of Education. Accordingly, a particular emphasis has been given to the professional development of mathematics teachers. This paper is a case study of the role of the Egyptian National...

In view of native/nonnative language teacher dichotomy, different characteristics have been assigned to these 2 groups. The dichotomy has been the source of different actions and measures to clarify the positive and negative points of being (non)native teachers. In recent years, many researchers have revisited this dichotomy. The challenge to the dichotomy can be a source of motivation to explo...

The present study attempts to uncover language teachers’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback. It also explores the role of teachers’ experiences in their choice of error correction techniques. To achieve the purpose of the study, 137 foreign language teachers were asked to fill out the developed questionnaire and follow-up interviewed were conducted with 10 teachers, five novice and experien...

Using learning games in education gives rise to a learning situation where game culture meets school culture and the result can be successful or corrupting for both. In this paper I present a case study of school classes and their teachers playing the game ‘Homicide’, a game where children play the roles as forensic experts who solve a series of murder cases. When teachers use this type of game...

Teacher efficacy is an essential psychological variable which is linked to student achievement, motivation, and even student self-efficacy. Moreover, teachers' self-efficacy beliefs play an essential role in the context of reform initiatives by mediating any behavioral change. The relevant literature reports conflicting findings on the sources, however. Such being the case, the present ...

Knowledge sharing is a complex behavior. To show this complexity and ways of improving it, the intermediary role of attitudes, cognitive norms, and motivation seem to be important when considering the interaction between this complex behavior and personality traits. To show this relationship, a sample of 357 teachers from among all 570 high school teachers in Birjand was selected and then giv...