The current approach to education has highly changed compared to the past approach where individual differences and potentials were overlooked. Today, there is an education system that reveals the potentials of individuals, shapes the strong sides and supports the weak sides. This approach is based on the multiple intelligence theory. The aim of…

Purpose of this research is to determine differences between teachers' branches in terms of mental health status according to whether they do regular sports or not. Research was carried out using descriptive scanning model. Research population consist of schools in Turkey affiliated to the Ministry of Education, active working teachers in…

The education of all coaches is an important issue regardless of the level. However, it is assumed that coaches at the college level have significant advantages over coaches at other levels. This study investigated that assumption in determining the educational demographics of coaches in a college Division I conference in the western United…

This study examined how the professional experiences of international women faculty are shaped by the institutional culture at one striving university. A qualitative design allowed for capturing unanticipated phenomena through three data sources: interviews, a focus group, and document analysis. All 12 participants in this study held tenure-track…

Purpose: Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials openly licensed so that others may retain, reuse, revise, remix or redistribute (the 5Rs) these materials. This paper aims to raise awareness of OER by providing a rationale for using these learning materials and a strategy for educators to get started with OER during the collective…

In this paper, I used small stories narrative to understand how educators work with and care for immigrant and undocumented students and to examine the educator's experiences as it relates to her personal and professional identities. Data included in-depth interviews, observations, and artifacts. By using small narrative stories, my research was…

This study was designed to identify factors impacting teachers who co-teach, both special education and general education content teachers. This study also addressed a gap in knowledge regarding job satisfaction for co-teachers. Additionally, this study identified both positive and negative factors that lead to job satisfaction among this specific…

Despite the popularity of Facebook amongst students and teachers for personal use, the problem is a lack of understanding of how high school teachers use Facebook for instructional purposes to promote learner-learner and learner-instructor interactions. Focusing on how and why some high school teachers incorporate Facebook in their teaching…

The purpose of this qualitative single-case study was to explore elementary-school teachers' perceptions of the influence of experiences, readiness to learn, and motivation on their preparedness to implement the blended learning model within the student learning environment. The conceptual framework used to explore this phenomenon was the Knowles…

Many states have recently made or are considering changes to their teacher retirement systems. However, little is known about how teachers value various elements of their retirement benefits versus other aspects of their jobs and compensation. To help alleviate this gap, we use a discrete choice stated preferences experiment embedded in a…

Purpose: This study identifies (1) differences that exist between junior and senior faculty in their beliefs about the impact of mentoring; (2) interest among tenured and tenure-track faculty in participating in a mentoring relationship; and (3) the extent to which faculty perceive mentoring as a critical component of the track to tenure.…

The purpose of this study was to discover and uncover elementary teacher descriptions of their experiences with receiving and acting on principal feedback through the Instructional Coaching and Feedback Cycle (ICFC). The ICFC is a feedback cycle that consists of short principal observations of teacher instruction followed by immediate feedback to…

The purpose of this research was to understand in-service teachers' experiences with and ideas about mathematical creativity after participating in a targeted professional development program. The professional development program encouraged participants to think creatively and foster students' creativity. In this study I present the results from…

Considering professional calls for culturally sustaining, comprehensive school counseling practices, this study examined school counselor factors (e.g., age and years of experience) and school factors (e.g., school size and percentage of students of color enrolled) that predicted school counselors' implementation of evidence-based, culturally…

The study was undertaken to examine within a single model the relationships between the teachers' perceived self-efficacy beliefs and their intention to practice STrEaM teaching in the classroom. The acronym STrEaM refers to the expansion of integrated STEM, merging it with a focus on reading, writing, and arts, for connecting the four STEM…