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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"in-service teacher training"”.
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The ‘four resources model' in South Africa: An analysis of an in-service teacher training intervention for literacy at foundation phase level and its uptake by teachers at a Cape Flats school
Despite a wide range of teacher training literacy interventions in South Africa at foundation phase level, literacy results have declined according to local and international tests. This research outlines the basis of these interventions and then compares them with a new teacher training …
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The Development of a Test of Content Area Reading
… study was to develop and pilot test an objective instrument designed to assess secondary school subject area teachers' knowledge of reading as it applies to their teaching. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine how subject area taught, grade level taught, length of teaching experience, …
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The Impact of Teacher Preception of Student Effort and Student Attitude on Grading of Secondary Students
The problem: Research has repeatedly noted the inclusion of nonacademic factors complicate the ability to interpret grades since these factors may directly conflict with each other and distort the meaning of a grade. Procedure: This study investigated the impact two nonacademic factors, teacher …
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A review of the role of problem solving and other critical thinking skills in the secondary home economics curriculum of the Sudan with an empirical study of the in-service training of teachers
… I summarises the development of the Critical Thinking (CT) movement and previous studies of developing Critical Thinking Skills (CTSs), with particular focus on the methods used in teaching them in the Home Economics (HE) context. One method, Problem-Solving (PS)o was chosen to teach CTSs in …
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California and Texas Secondary Science Teachers' Perceptions about climate change
Background: Science teachers’ perceptions about climate change can affect their instruction in the classroom. Teachers’ misconceptions about this topic can be problematic since scientifically inaccurate ideas may be transferred to their students. Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate …
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The effectiveness of a creativity course on developing Chinese design students' creative thinking
<p>The ability to think creatively has been recognized as a skill necessary for design students’ personal and professional development and success. Therefore, in recent years, the core educational aim of design education in China shifted emphasis from training students in skills such as drawing and …
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Improving the quality of primary teaching in a developing country: an analytical evaluation of an in-service training programme in Sindh Province, Pakistan
The province of Sindh, Pakistan has had considerable donor investment in its primary education system through development projects since the 1960s. These have not made an observable impact on the quality of teaching in government primary schools. This research is an evaluation and study of a pilot …
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“IT’S BEEN A LONG JOURNEY”: EXPLORING THE IDENTITIES AND PEDAGOGY OF SECONDARY CRITICAL LITERACY EDUCATORS
Critical literacy—which I define briefly here as a lens that assumes no text is neutral and therefore an important goal of reading and writing is to evaluate and critique the power and perspectives that all texts contain—has been continuously well-theorized over the past half-century but is less …
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Critical thinking in a Vietnamese tertiary English as a foreign language context : current practices and prospects
This thesis explores critical thinking practices in the relatively under-researched context of Vietnamese tertiary English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classrooms. Drawing on Bloom’s (1956) taxonomy and Barnett’s (1997) domains of criticality, critical thinking is defined in this study as the …
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AN EXAMINATION OF ELEMENTARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS’ PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY TOWARD TEACHING CHILDREN WITH ORTHOPEDIC IMPAIRMENTS IN MONTANA: DO TEACHERS FEEL COMPETENT?
An Examination of elementary physical education teachers' perceived self-efficacy toward teaching children with orthopedic impairments in Montana: Do teachers feel competent? Chairperson: Dr. Arthur Miller The purpose of this study was to explore elementary physical educators' self-efficacy beliefs …
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AN EXAMINATION OF ELEMENTARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHERS’ PERCEIVED SELF-EFFICACY TOWARD TEACHING CHILDREN WITH ORTHOPEDIC IMPAIRMENTS IN MONTANA: DO TEACHERS FEEL COMPETENT?
An Examination of elementary physical education teachers' perceived self-efficacy toward teaching children with orthopedic impairments in Montana: Do teachers feel competent? Chairperson: Dr. Arthur Miller The purpose of this study was to explore elementary physical educators' self-efficacy beliefs …
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The teaching and learning of English at secondary school level in South Korea: The curriculum and its implementation
… attitudes and practices of a sample of teachers of English in South Korean secondary schools in the context of a focus point-based analysis of the South Korean national curriculum and a sample of widely used textbooks. There has been widespread criticism of the teaching of English in …
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN CONTEXT: INVESTIGATING IN-SERVICE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS FOR SYRIAN TEACHERS OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE DURING TIMES OF MILITARY CONFLICT
… purpose of this study is to research how teaching practices and in-service professional development of English language teachers’ in Syria have been affected during times of military conflict: what impact English language teachers in Syria perceive the professional development programs they are …