In the effort to "flatten the curve" of the COVID-19 pandemic, teachers were required to adapt their curricula, pedagogy, and relationships with their students to remote learning structures. In the traditional classroom context, teachers have a number of ways to check in on and connect with their students that do not translate to the…

Purpose: This study aims to establish the online teaching behaviour of university lecturers as well as examine issues and challenges for online teaching in universities in Zimbabwe during the COVID-19 era and beyond. Design/methodology/approach: The study assumed a quantitative approach that employed a structured questionnaire for data collection.…

The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' competency in teaching for student competence in science. Drawing on literature on competence and science teacher education, we identified 44 indicators of science teaching competence in relation to the current Korean National Science Curriculum, from which 54 items for teachers' self-assessment…

In this paper, we outline English language teaching practices from a private language school in Serbia. We use data from qualitative interviews with six English language instructors from one private language school in Serbia to understand how these individuals prepare for and teach adult learners. We discuss these based on the andragogical process…

Innovations in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are a cornerstone of the United States' economic prosperity, yet national and international assessments paint a poor picture of students' STEM competencies (reference 1; reference 2). These data have led to transformative approaches to improve STEM education including…

Survey research examined the extent to which teacher knowledge and training in differentiated instruction (DI) predicted student achievement. The research examined the independent variables (IV) DI knowledge, training, and instructional strategies for effect on dependent variables (DV) ELA and Math student achievement scores. Using a survey…

The purpose of this study was to investigate if differences in perceived professional self-efficacy were due to various demographic characteristics for educators in a rural East Texas school district. Participants in this study were full-time teachers within the school district. The district consists of 2 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1…

Assuring the quality of early childhood education (ECE) settings is a fundamental consideration for supporting young children's learning and development. Head Start programs serve children and families living in poverty, highlighting the need for equitable and high-quality learning opportunities for these vulnerable populations, and the ECE…

There is a growing body of research that exists on student-teacher and school level factors that can influence student success. While emotional intelligence is overly critical to student learning, it is also linked to effective teaching practices as well as improved teaching quality. A person with emotional intelligence can understand his or her…

We offer a brief history of the study of excellence in college and university teaching. We review major examinations of teaching excellence and summarize key characteristics of model teachers.

Although substantial evidence from the United States suggests that more qualified teachers are disproportionately concentrated in the schools and classrooms of academically and socioeconomically advantaged children, it is not clear whether the problem of teacher sorting is global in scope. This study uses data from the 2013 Teaching and Learning…

For this quantitative correlational study, the purpose was to examine to what extent, if any, the faculty members of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School perceive the school as a learning organization. The data collection instrument was the Learning Organization Survey--27 used to obtain responses from the participants about their…

Tracking, or its most modern form, ability grouping (Lucas & Berends, 2002), can cause students to experience different levels of care and to have different opportunities to learn (Moller & Stearns, 2012; Oakes, 2005). Research (Diamond, Randolf, & Spillane, 2004) suggests that teachers' sense of care varies widely between the various…

The purpose of this quantitative study was to identify the perceptions of community college faculty to barriers to teaching online. This study examined faculty barriers toward teaching online at predominantly White community colleges (PWCCs) and predominantly Black community colleges (PBCCs) in the United States. The researcher also investigated…

This paper explores the experiences of practicing bilingual (English/Spanish, English/Portuguese, and English/Haitian Creole) and English as a Second Language teachers after completing a Bilingual Bicultural Education Certification program. It highlights how teachers defined success when working with their emergent bilingual students and names the…