This research aims to design and apply a lesson plan to satisfy 3rd-grade inclusive education students' individual learning needs on the subject of plant life cycle, and to develop three instruction materials based on this lesson plan. In the first stage of this three-staged research, visually impaired students' individual learning needs were…

This paper sets out to explore English language materials development since the emergence of communicative language learning (CLT). Many pedagogical approaches have been innovated to reach the goal of CLT. It will discuss the most common approach of English language materials development used nowadays. This paper specifically introduces a new…

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric quality (i.e., validity and reliability) of a rating scale to assess pre-service teachers' lesson plan development in the context of secondary-level music performance classrooms. The research questions that guided this study include: (1) What items demonstrate acceptable model fit for the…

Recently, teacher training courses have attracted the researchers' special attention, while teacher education programs have not received as much attention. The present study investigated the attitudes key stakeholders in a teacher education program (i.e., student teachers, in-service teachers, and teacher educators) hold toward the appropriateness…

This paper establishes a use for digital video in developing preservice teacher metacognition about the teaching process using a lesson plan-rating sheet as a guide. A lesson plan was developed to meet the specific needs of the methods instructors in a professional development program at a large public institution. The categories listed on the…

Cultural orientation, teaching about a new culture and the skills needed to operate within it, is a critical component of refugee services programs. This handbook was developed at a 2-day workshop sponsored by the Northwest Educational Cooperative (NEC) and is designed to help improve the competencies of teacher trainers and bilingual staff…

Originally developed to serve the needs of bilingual education and English as a second language (ESL) instructors in the Compton Unified School District in California, this replication manual provides content, organization, and lesson plans for a 14-day, 41-hour course to train teachers in the fundamentals of computer operation and structure,…