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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"teachers and teaching"”.
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Spirituality in principal leadership and its influence on teachers and teaching
… leadership practice. Spirituality is a complex and controversial human phenomenon, the meaning of which may be shaped and re-shaped by diverse perspectives and experiences. It includes personal, social-cultural and transcendent connectedness, meaning making about life and living, and a desire to …
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Secondary English as a Foreign Language Teachers and Teaching: Cultural Practices, Products, and Perspectives
… phenomenon, if not a necessity, for economic and political reasons in the world today. However, effective instruction of English as a foreign language (EFL) has differing views on how culture and language should be taught. Developed by the author, the study uses the Cultural Teaching Model, …
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Teachers and teaching assistants working together : collaboration, support and inclusion in a secondary school
… way adults work together to support the academic and social inclusion of those children who are labelled as having difficulties in learning, in one secondary school. In particular, it has focused on teachers and teaching assistants, (T As) classroom practices, and more specifically on how teachers …
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An exploration of a complex relationship: Teachers and Teaching Assistants working together in primary schools.
There has been a huge increase in the number of Teaching Assistants (TAs) working in UK schools in recent decades, meaning that most teachers now share their classroom with at least one other adult. Despite this, there has been little systematic or structured research into such a key relationship …
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Portraits in the first person: an historical ethnography of rural teachers and teaching in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley in the 1920s
… a history of the development of rural schools and community in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia from 1874 until 1930, focussing mainly on the period from 1920 to 1930. The teacher, or more specifically the female teacher, is the main subject. A series of oral interviews conducted with …
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An exploration of four to seven year olds’ perceptions of their own behaviour with comparisons to peers, class teachers and teaching assistants
… aged four to seven years, experience social and cognitive changes and may exhibit a variety of aggressive (Monks, Smith, & Swettenham, 2003), prosocial (Sebanc, 2003) and solitary behaviours (Coplan & Ooi, 2014), which are related to positive and negative outcomes. Research in this area has …
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Examining educators’ attitudes toward trauma-informed care and educators’ secondary traumatic stress
This study examined the relationship between teachers’ attitudes toward trauma-informed care and teachers' self-reported levels of secondary traumatic stress. Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory and Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological theory were used as frameworks for this study. A purposive …
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The shifting shape of useful knowledge in literacy teaching
… some of the paradigms of literacy research, and how teachers are positioned to use the knowledge generated to inform literacy education in schools. It draws on the candidate's published work from specific intervention and research projects to examine, on one hand, how a variety of research …
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The multiple dimensions of negative attitudes toward school among students in an urban high school environment
… in a high school environment through interviews and journal writing as a basis for qualitative data. A sample of convenience was chosen that included six students with varied characteristics of interest for the study. Students were asked to respond to journal prompts at 3-day intervals and were …
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The Teaching of Calculus in High Schools in the United States
… characterize U.S. high school calculus classes and to identify aspects of teachers and teaching of calculus that accounted for differences in class achievement. The factors examined were (a) the degree to which teachers' presentations of mathematics were process oriented, (b) the degree to which …
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Snapshots to re-imagine teacher quality in southern Chile
Considering the important role of teachers in improving learning outcomes, teacher evaluation is considered a priority for educational policy makers. This dissertation addresses three issues related with teacher quality and teacher evaluation in Chile. The first paper examines the …
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Teacher Professionalism Within the Community
… the current trend of teacher status as viewed by teachers, parents, and community members. The status of teachers has changed over history from one of a revered scholar who imparts knowledge on future leaders to one of a civil servant who is at fault for the ills involving today's young …
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HOW PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AT ONE CULTURAL INSTITUTION AFFECTS PARTICIPANTS’ THINKING ABOUT THE TEACHING OF HISTORY
… the impact that professional development has on teaching history. A total of nine middle school and high school teachers, with varying degrees of teaching experience and content backgrounds, participated in the study. Through an artifact analysis, field notes, interviews, dilemma analysis, and …
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The Educational Experiences Of Biracial Students As Seen Through The Eyes Of Their Parents
… of this research was to gain a better understanding of the issues and challenges biracial children and their parents face as they navigate through the U.S. K–12 school system while developing a firm sense of self and racial identity. This issue is important because of the growing number of …
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Direct and indirect effects of school learning variables on black 10th graders' academic achievement
… purpose of this study was to estimate the direct and indirect effects of certain school learning variables on the academic achievement of Black 10th graders. Simultaneously looking at variables associated with student background characteristics (i.e., gender and socioeconomic status); the school …
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Developing science concepts in secondary classrooms : an analysis of pedagogical interactions from a Vygotskian perspective
This study is concerned with how teachers use and guide classroom talk to support students in developing an understanding of scientific conceptual knowledge. The focus is on teachers and teaching. The study involves developing theoretical tools for describing the ways in which teachers make …
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The relationship between pre-service teacher’s psychological types, critical thinking abilities, and teacher efficacy on perceived performance.
… types, critical thinking abilities, and teacher efficacy on perceived performance. The accessible sample was purposively selected and consisted of pre-service teachers enrolled in the spring 2008 agricultural education teacher preparatory program at Texas Tech University. There were …
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Professional identities in transition : the perceptions of in-service trainee PCE teachers undertaking an initial PCE teacher-training course
A change in government policy and perception regarding the importance of the Post Compulsory Education (PCE) sector to the economy has led to an increase in the professionalisation of the sector as a whole. This in turn has led to changes in training for teachers who work in PCE - the latest of …
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An investigation into the Professional Development of English Teachers in Syrian Secondary Schools.
Despite continued interest and research into teacher professional development (TPD), as an important topic within English language teaching, the researcher identified some areas where there is much still to reveal. These include: teachers' customary engagement with different TPD activities aside …
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Activating belonging: Towards a critcial ensemble pedagogy
… belonging as a key determinant of learner health and wellbeing. Teachers, and teaching practices, are pivotal in developing safe, supportive communities in which students can learn and thrive, where they can belong. In this thesis the high school drama education ensemble in Aotearoa New Zealand is …
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