the role of teachers in the educational context could go beyond simply teaching the subject matter. it is not uncommon for some students to be greatly influenced by certain teachers and even consider them as their role models. an interesting and novel way of inferring the impact a teacher has on the students is through revealing the status of the teacher as perceived by the students. the presen...

the present study pursued two goals: first, to discover the subscales underlying the teacher status scale (tss); and second, to reveal the status of the teachers of persian, arabic, and english in iranian junior high school students’ perceptions in order to determine the relative roles of national, religious, and western influences in the identity construction of the students. the data was coll...

It is widelv accepted that teachers differ in their effectiveness, yet the empirical evidence regarding teacher effectiveness is weak. The existing evidence is mainly drawn from econometric studies that use covariates to attempt to controlfbr selec tion effects that might bias results. We use data from a four-year experiment in which teachers and students were randomly assigned to classes to es...

The role of teachers in the educational context could go beyond simply teaching the subject matter. It is not uncommon for some students to be greatly influenced by certain teachers and even consider them as their role models. An interesting and novel way of inferring the impact a teacher has on the students is through revealing the status of the teacher as perceived by the students. The presen...

The Process of Training Teachers for Elementary School in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Opportunities and Threats B. Sami’eenejaad M. Aliasgari, Ph.D. N. Moosaapoor, Ph.D. Gh. Haajihoseynnejaad, Ph.D. Teacher training in the Islamic Republic of Iran lacks a model matching its status. In order to shed light on all four aspects of training teachers for elementary school, ...

Beginning medical teachers often see themselves as doctors or researchers rather than as teachers. Using both figured worlds theory and dialogical self theory, this study explores how beginning teachers in the field of undergraduate medical education integrate the teacher role into their identity. A qualitative study was performed, involving 18 beginning medical teachers at a Dutch medical scho...

In 1919, the Psychological Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania added a teacher to its staff. The child's response to teaching has always been a factor in determining his mental status, since failure in school is often taken to indicate the need of a psychological examination. Nevertheless the use of teaching for the purpose of discovering the mental status of a child is commonly beyond the...

This study aimed to investigate sources of motivation of English language teachers in Iranian public and private language schools. To this end, a Language Teacher Motivation Source (LTMS) questionnaire was developed on the basis of the related literature. The LTMS examined four sources of motivation, i. e., extrinsic (economic, social, emotional, educational), intrinsic, altruistic, and subject...