Although the uptake of digital technologies in mathematics teaching continues to be inhibited by factors such as poor resourcing of schools, limited recognition in curricula, and lack of acceptance in examinations, such barriers are slowly diminishing. This brings to the fore what is perhaps the most crucial influence on the successful integration of digital technologies into everyday teaching ...

The term „pedagogy‟ has become a more commonly used word in English educational circles, but it is an under-used and partially misunderstood concept. It is the aim of this article to explore some of the factors that lead to effective classroom teaching. The medieval view of teaching was one where only subject knowledge was necessary, but the work of social constructivists has led to a more stud...

Teachers Assessment and Profiling System (TAPS) is a unique kind of approach to examine weaknesses and strengths of a teacher so that he/she may be advised to improve his/her teaching expertise. There are many software and commercially available tools for this purpose. What makes our approach distinguished from other is that a Fuzzy Rule Based System (FRBS) is proposed for assessment and for pr...

Surprisingly, foundational knowledge about cognitive science (CS) is not included in all teacher preparation programs or required for certification in all states. Here, I examine the impact of infusing CS content into teachercandidates’ coursework by providing half of the pedagogy instructors with professional development on big ideas in CS (memory/attention/transfer/problem solving/practice/ex...

Teachers Assessment and Profiling System (TAPS) is a unique kind of approach to examine weaknesses and strengths of a teacher so that he/she may be advised to improve his/her teaching expertise. There are many software and commercially available tools for this purpose. What makes our approach distinguished from other is that a Fuzzy Rule Based System (FRBS) is proposed for assessment and for pr...

This study investigated the role of some key characteristics of teachers in the development of musical ability. Interviewing 257 children who differed in the extent of their instrumental mastery, it was discovered that the most successful learners regarded their teachers differently to those children who ceased music tuition. The more successful learners rated their first teacher higher than ot...

The primary role of the vocational agriculture teacher has always been to help students learn knowledge and skills in agriculture. In order for the program to justify the time and money utilized on it, it is important that students be taught by competent teachers using a variety of teaching methods and using them appropriately (The Unfinished Agenda. 1986). A competent teacher is the essential ...

In today’s knowledge-based economy, having proper expertise is crucial in resolving many tasks. Expertise Finding (EF) is the area of research concerned with matching available experts to given tasks. A standard approach is to input a task description/proposal/paper into an EF system and receive recommended experts as output. Mostly, EF systems operate either via a content-based approach, which...

In this paper, we present an algorithm for automatically building expertise evidence for finding experts within an organization by combining structured corporate information with different content. We also describe our test data collection and our evaluation method. Evaluation of the algorithm shows that using organizational structure leads to a significant improvement in the precision of findi...