The study reported on here was undertaken to understand the impact of mentoring novice science teachers. conducted within Gauteng province, because there have been many debates and concerns necessity devise ways improving understanding in schools province. purpose this effects natural teachers We used qualitative research approach motivated by need perceptions experiences participants. Purposiv...

To act efficiently in the classroom, teachers need to be able to judge the difficulty of problems from a novice’s perspective. However, research suggests that experts use their own knowledge as an anchor, adjust estimations for others to their own knowledge and thus underestimate the difficulty that a problem may impose on novices. Similarly, experts should underestimate the benefit for novices...

Interpreting changing levels of self-efficacy while improving effective teaching behaviors can be one goal of teacher education programs. Undergraduate education majors often begin their teacher education programs with high levels of self-efficacy (a belief in one’s capabilities). These levels of self-efficacy frequently decline as pre-service teachers progress through their curriculum and make...

Limited curriculum enhancement resources are available to psychiatric nurse educators. This article provides a clinical teaching guide for novice instructors teaching an introductory psychiatric nursing course. The investigation is grounded in a constructivist theoretical framework and extends a previous case study project that explored how students learn during a mental health practicum (Melro...

Jeliot 3 is a program visualization tool that can be used in introductory courses of programming. It animates a large set of Java programs and can interact with the BlueJ IDE. Jeliot 3 has been tested and shown to be useful for novice students with difficulties in programming. In this paper, we discuss how Jeliot 3 has been designed to allow for extensibility with modular design. This allows bo...

Novice teachers face several challenges during their first years of socialization in schools, often feeling unprepared managing the full range teaching duties. If teacher retention and attrition are to be improved, research on difficulties encountered by novice diverse contexts cultures is required. There a lack studies regarding physical education (PE) teachers’ induction processes, especially...