Teacher training

This doctoral project included an extensive literature review and product, which was comprised of three 50-minute workshops designed to inform general education teachers about different components of inclusion and to help them to feel more confident in implementing inclusion in …

This thesis presents a description and analysis of scaffolding in the construction of teaching knowledge in a pre-service teacher training course in a Turkish university. Prior research in the area of scaffolding in primary school classrooms has focused on pupils operating in th…

The study has two central purposes: firstly, to undertake the first comprehensive analysis of a particular policy-making process, the Scottish Tertiary Education Advisory Council's work in the mid '80s on the future strategy of higher education in Scotland; and, secondly, to use…

One result of the political changes in Hungary in 1989-90, was the sudden switch, within state education, from compulsory study of Russian to a free choice of foreign languages. Most pupils (or their parents) opted to study English or German. Opportunities to study these languag…

International schools, loosely defined as those involving students, teachers, curricula and/or languages not from the host country, form a significant sector of education worldwide, with numbers estimated at more than three thousand and predicted to grow rapidly over the next de…

The Indonesia Open University (Universitas Terbuka or UT) face-to-face tutoring program for in-service teacher training is intended to improve teacher trainees' course completion rates. The university has attempted to intensify trainees' motivation to participate in the tutoring…

Current educational reform initiatives in Bangladesh focus on classroom teaching as a direct path to improving student learning outcomes and indicate a shift away from the teacher-centered, authoritarian education model of the past with a preference for a more constructivist ped…

Since mobile phone ownership and use saturate the developing world, teachers there could use their mobile phones to receive teacher training as distance education (West & Chew, 2014). However, the challenge remains that the vast majority of mobile phones used in developing count…

This case study investigated the process of adopting and integrating interactive whiteboards into the daily practice of teachers and compared the findings to relevant theoretical models. Participants were drawn from a small international school in Damascus, Syria, where interact…

An Ethiopian cluster-based in-service teacher professional development program used student-centered strategies to increase teacher knowledge and skills, thereby improving teacher pedagogy and, theoretically, increasing student achievement. This program is similar to dozens of o…

Online distance education is increasing in use for professional development with English as a Foreign Language (EFL) educators worldwide. It creates training opportunities that would not otherwise exist in developing countries and among populations that face geographical, socio-…

Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities (EBDs) are often pushed out of the least restrictive schooling environment due to schools’ inability to meet their unique learning needs (OSEP, 2020). School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS) is a rese…

The purpose of the study was to examine and evaluate the effectiveness of the social studies teaching programs in the Al-Jouf Education College, which had not been done previously. This research focused and answered six research questions concerning teacher perceptions regarding…

Providing facilities and training for teachers to use computers effectively in their classroom instruction is not sufficient. There are many other factors that need to be examined in order to ensure that teachers will use computer technology effectively in their classroom instru…

This study examines the social and cultural contexts, and factors of global and local sources, which influence teacher preparation and which may serve to impede or facilitate the training of public and private school English teachers at the “University of Banten,” in Serang, Ind…

This study was designed to examine the perceptions of stakeholders on the implementation of the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Law of 2005 (amended 2007) on inclusive education in Kaduna State. It was set to investigate the extent of the success of inclusion at the basic…

The subject of religion in public schools has always been controversial. America is a religiously diverse society, and one of the fundamental documents of this country, the Constitution of the United States, prohibits the establishment of a single religion which may seek to infl…

In the first part of this research, the feasibility of supplementing standard of inservice teacher training (ISTT) for paraprofessional teachers in BRAC's (an NGO in Bangladesh) non-formal primary education system is examined. The present print-based ISTT format is analyzed. The…

Scope and method of study. The purpose of this project was to meet the need of All Nations For Christ Bible Institute International, in Benin City, Nigeria, of a formal and biblical statement on the philosophy of education for its work in teacher training and providing trained m…

Despite all efforts of the Nigerian government, corruption and money laundering continue to rise to a level yet unseen in the history of the country. Nigeria is ranked one of the most corrupt nations in the world, after Bangladesh and Haiti. This quantitative study of the signif…