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Dorph, Gail Zaiman – Religious Education, 2010
Teaching the Torah in liberal settings demands a set of skills and a sophisticated knowledge of the Bible. It presupposes an open approach to the text that posits multiple interpretations, and demands close reading and explication of the text as in a literary-critical approach. In this article, the author describes the knowledge and beliefs of six…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Jews, Judaism, Religious Education
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Moseley, Christine; Huss, Jeanine; Utley, Juliana – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2010
The purpose of this study was to determine change in environmental education teaching efficacy beliefs of K-12 teachers who participated in two weeks of an intensive summer earth systems science institute using the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) curriculum as the conceptual framework. Thirty-eight teachers…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Self Efficacy, Beliefs
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Chan, David W. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2008
This study assessed two global (general and collective) and seven domain-specific sets of teacher self-efficacy beliefs among 273 Chinese prospective and in-service teachers in Hong Kong. While teachers generally reported having the highest confidence in teaching highly able learners and the least confidence in classroom management, there were…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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DiBella-McCarthy, Holly; And Others – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1995
A self-efficacy quiz for teachers is provided, and guidelines are offered for using the quiz to increase an individual teacher's sense of teaching efficacy. Suggestions are offered for positively altering current beliefs about teaching and students and for addressing a sense of low personal teaching efficacy. (DB)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Development, Rating Scales
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Evans, Ronald W. – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1990
Investigates how secondary history teachers' conceptions of history (typology) influences classroom practices. Interviews five teachers, representing five typologies, and their students, and observes classroom techniques. Suggests impact of teacher conceptions varies, finding only one of five typologies profoundly influencing students. Sees…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Citizenship Education, Classroom Observation Techniques, Critical Thinking