In Japan, school teachers experience mental health issues, leading to absences or leave from their duties. While extended working hours significantly contribute to this problem, diminished self-esteem has emerged as the primary causal factor. Reduced self-esteem is frequently correlated with diminished self-efficacy across multiple facets of…

In October 2014, the University of British Columbia Vancouver campus (UBCV) ran a campus-wide survey to establish baseline information on teaching practices and attitudes among faculty, to measure the impact of existing teaching and learning initiatives and to identify the conditions leading to change in practices and attitudes around teaching.…

The purpose of this qualitative study was to analyze the perception of elementary teachers and their practices when transitioning from small classes of 20 to larger classes of 28 or more students. The respondents were asked questions about how they have adjusted to the instruction of the curriculum, classroom management, monitoring of student…

Background: The student teaching internship is the culminating experience and has been cited as the most significant, exciting, and difficult experience teacher candidates will encounter throughout their entire teacher preparation program. In order to prepare business teacher candidates for their internships, it is critical to understand the…

The purpose of the research was to study the effectiveness of Cardinal Stritch University's Undergraduate Teacher Education Program in preparing its graduates to teach all children. The researcher framed the study around four areas of concern common to beginning teachers from the research and literature: (a) curriculum, instruction and assessment…

FIVE EXPERIENCED TEACHERS VISITED 1,011 FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES, TAUGHT BY 747 HIGH SCHOOL TEACHERS, TO STUDY THE QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF THE TEACHING. BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF SUCCESSFUL METHODS WERE REPORTED. THE REPORT INCLUDED DISCUSSIONS OF LOGS OF FOUR TYPICAL CLASSES, CLASS SETTINGS, LISTENING COMPREHENSION, SPEAKING, READING, AND WRITING…

Classroom teaching techniques are offered which will help the office education teacher become a more efficient manager of clerical tasks in orderto free more time and energy for "real" teaching. Planning and organization of students' learning activities are the keys. (Author/AJ)

A study was conducted to gain greater understanding of the nature of work of beginning home economics teachers. Their work was characterized by fairly heavy teaching schedules, responsibility for clubs and other extracurricular activities, difficulty with time and classroom management, and limited teaching techniques and ability to plan and…

Recommends the frame of reference method in helping students learn to recognize bias in the questions an author asks, the evidence gathered, and the conclusions drawn. Describes a high school writing-anthropology unit on the Kung San society. Discusses the potentials, problems, and school-linked constraints in using frame of reference models. (IW)

The most effective division of labor between teacher and laboratory is the primary concern in this discussion of language laboratory techniques. A set of 12 factors on language laboratory use involves attendance, supervision (monitoring), integration with classwork, student listening and recording, laboratory availability, and use of pattern…

A professor of education returns to the elementary classroom as a teacher's aide and learns that administrators can support teachers by (1) working to eliminate fragmentation in daily routines, (2) protecting teachers from overextension, (3) focusing more on individual students, (4) promoting teacher collegiality, and (5) fashioning a school…

This paper presents an approach to the future role of public school language and speech specialists designed to make them indispensable to teachers and administrators. They should move away from the pull-out method of delivering services. Instead they should work directly with students in their classroom and consult or co-teach with regular and…