This article examines minority teacher recruitment policies and programs of the past two decades and explores their influence on the racial/ethnic makeup of the teaching force in elementary and secondary public schools. The results show that while important progress has been made toward increasing the overall number and proportion of minority teachers in the public schools, those gains have bee...

This study examined the relationship between computer anxiety and computer selfefficacy of students and teachers in elementary and secondary schools. The sample included a total of 845 subjects from two private school systems in Turkey. The Oetting’s Computer Anxiety Scale was used to measure computer anxiety whereas the Murphy’s Computer Self-Efficacy Scale was used to measure computer self-ef...

BACKGROUND Teaching is considered a highly stressful occupation, with work-related stress levels among teachers being among the highest compared to other professions. Unfortunately there are very few studies regarding the levels of work-related stress among teachers in the Republic of Macedonia. AIM To identify the level of self-perceived work-related stress among teachers in elementary schoo...

The present study was conducted to assess the teachers’ self efficacy on three subscales namely as Student Engagement, Instructional Strategies and Classroom Management. The main objective of the study was to determine the teachers’ self efficacy on these subscales in relation to gender, age, professional qualification, school status and nature of job. For this purpose a convenient sample of 10...

During the period of 1989-1992 the number of Dutch elementary schools that are in the possession of computers increased by 40%. More than half of the teachers in grades 4, 5 and 6 (9-1 I yr) actually use the computer in the classroom. In secondary education all schools are in possession of computers. The number of teachers who use a computer for existing subjects in the second grade has doubled...

1 ABSTRACT There was great interest in the use of interactive whiteboards when they first began appearing in schools in the early 2000’s. However, many schools that have access to the boards have not been able to successfully integrate them into the curriculum, resulting in an underutilization of the technology. In this paper, we describe the process and results of a year long study of teachers...

Advances in digital technologies and proliferation of the Internet as an ubiquitous platform for communication and information open up new opportunities for teaching and learning in the 21st century. In the past decade, K-12 schools have made considerable investments in the educational technology infrastructure, as evident by the decrease in students-per-computer ratios from 10.8 to 4 in a 10-y...