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An Investigation of Teacher Shortages in Rural Alabama: A Qualitative Case Study
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Ginger Elizabeth Boyd – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The severe teacher shortage in Alabama's rural districts negatively impacts student outcome and educational quality. The purpose of this study was to assess the challenges and coping strategies related to recruiting and retaining teachers in rural Alabama schools. The study's theoretical frameworks are Ryan and Deci's intrinsic motivation and…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Rural Schools, Work Environment, Teaching Conditions
"You Only Teach PE and It Doesn't Really Matter": Middle School PE Teachers' Perspectives on Intervention Efforts to Increase Physical Activity
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Gill, Monique; Roth, Sarah E.; Rice, Lindsay N.; Prelip, Michael L.; Koniak-Griffin, Deborah – Journal of School Nursing, 2020
Physical education (PE) is a frequent site of public health intervention to promote physical activity (PA); however, intervention research frequently overlooks the perspective of PE teachers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore teachers' experiences with and perceptions of a PA curriculum intervention. Six findings within three…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Intervention, Physical Activity Level
Influence of Scientific Stories on Students Ideas about Science and Scientists
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Erten, Sinan; Kiray, S. Ahmet; Sen-Gümüs, Betül – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2013
This study was conducted to determine whether a lesson, in which context-based learning approach and scientific stories were used, changed students' (aged 11-12) stereotypical images of science and scientists. Data was collected from two separate sources: Interviews conducted with six students and Draw a Scientist Test (DAST) document that was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientists, Work Environment, Elementary School Students
School Culture: A Validation Study and Exploration of Its Relationship with Teachers' Work Environment
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Guo, Ping – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study was aimed at exploring the relationship between school culture and teachers' work environment and further exploring the roles of school culture, teachers' efficacy, beliefs, and behaviors for character education, and teachers' work environment in the relationship between a character education intervention and students' social emotional…
Descriptors: School Culture, Work Environment, Teacher Surveys, Intervention
From Talk to Action: Experiencing Interlocution in Developmental Interventions
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Sannino, Annalisa – Mind, Culture, and Activity, 2008
This article explores how to analyze and conceptualize the dynamics through which conversations in Change Laboratory research interventions lead to envisioning and implementing material changes in activities. Leont'ev's concept of personal sense is used as a theoretical lens for tracing these dynamics and to provide a means to relate local…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Middle Schools, Laboratories, Intervention
Promises Kept: Collective Commitments to Students Become a Catalyst for Improved Professional Practice
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DuFour, Richard; DuFour, Rebecca; Lopez, Damen; Muhammad, Anthony – Journal of Staff Development, 2006
Promises to staff usually evolve around issues of working conditions and individual autonomy, but a staff's collective commitments to students can serve as a powerful catalyst for improved professional practice. In this article, the authors present two schools--Penasquitos Elementary School in San Diego, California, and Levey Middle School in…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Formative Evaluation, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Educational Improvement