This paper presents a way of possible implementation of teaching process based on interdisciplinary correlation. Interdisciplinary relationship between biology (bird migration) and geography (the basic features of countries through which white storks travel to their wintering grounds in Africa) is suggested in this paper. Such interdisciplinary approach should make the teaching process effectiv...

Most basic medical science disciplines follow a system-based teaching module, including components of anatomy, such as microscopic and developmental anatomy.Gross anatomy’s transformation from a region-based to a system-based module is a natural transition that enables the building of a cohesive and integrated curricular experience and demonstrably enhances understanding of other basic science ...

The present study examines the achievement goals of university instructors, particularly the structure of such goals, and their relationship to biographic characteristics, other aspects of instructors' motivation, and teaching quality. Two hundred and fifty-one university instructors (184 without Ph.D., 97 with Ph.D., thereof 51 full professors; 146 males, 92 females) answered a questionnaire m...

the purpose of the present study was to compare writing high achievers and low achievers tefl (teaching english as foreign language) learners’ writing self-beliefs. subjects, based on their officially recorded scores on the writing course, were assigned in two 22-member groups of high and low achievers. the adapted english version of mills’ and péron’s (2008) questionnaire and the foreign langu...

This study explored the effects of online academic help-seeking (OAHS) and flipped learning (FL) on students’ development of involvement, self-efficacy, and self-directed learning. A quasi-experiment was conducted to investigate whether students’ involvement, self-efficacy, and self-directed learning increases over time with intervention by OAHS, FL, and their combination. Three classes of firs...

A major attribute of effective teaching is a teacher’s sense of teacher self-efficacy, which influences teacher behavior, motivation, and impact on student outcomes. Teacher self-efficacy impacts the level of motivation a teacher exhibits towards their instructional behaviors. In a general sense, self-efficacy influences how much effort people put forth, how long they will persist in the face o...

This study explores the extent that teaching adolescent girls to sew their own clothes works as an intervention to improve self-esteem, optimism, and self-efficacy. Twenty-six adolescent girls between the ages of 11 and 16 participated in a sewing class, held once per week for three hours over five weeks. Participants completed questionnaires on self-esteem, optimism, and self-efficacy. Self-es...