Instructional coaching is steadily becoming a staple in schools everywhere. In elementary schools, coaches are often organized by content or grade level coaching programs. While research continues to show that instructional coaches positively support teachers, research does not address the structure behind coaching programs. This mixed-methods…

Real-world problems serve as authentic learning contexts for students to integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) knowledge, enhancing their interest and fostering their identity in STEM. Primary school students' unfamiliarity with real-world problems can be addressed through community engagement; however, research in…

The objectives of this action research were: (1) To develop learning achievement in basic science subjects of grade 8 students who received an inquiry-based learning (IBL) management system combined with an educational game on the topic of solutions to pass the requirement of 70%; and (2) To study the satisfaction of grade 8 students toward the…

The qualitative case study explores the perceptions of career teachers who choose to work in high attrition elementary school sites, despite the high teacher turnover and critical teacher shortage. Using the Motivation-Hygiene (Two-Factor) theory, proposed by Frederick Herzberg, Bernard Mausner, and Barbara Block Snyderman in their study The…

This study's purpose was to elucidate the experiences of educators raising and responding to child-related concerns within Early Childhood Education and Care settings. Parent satisfaction with interactions, educators' ratings of how well interactions went, and educator confidence related to raising or responding to concerns, were examined.…

Last five decades have witnessed the comprehensive growth of science education around the world as the science is regarded as the major tenets of innovation and economic growth. Various extant studies on science education have concentrate on how to deliver and put the science in both curriculum and classrooms. However, there are rarely researches…

Teachers' continuous usage intention for virtual reality (VR) technology is a prerequisite for achieving its expected educational value in elementary and secondary education. Through a comprehensive model considering task-technology fit (TTF) and usage satisfaction, this study involved an analysis framework for the intention of teachers to…

Novice teachers face various challenges in their profession. As a result, 18% leave the profession due to challenges such as inadequate support and intolerable expectations from the school administration. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore how novice teachers perceive school principals' and school leaders'…

Background: Teachers describe their colleagues as one of their most valuable resources (Drury & Baer, 2011; Johnston & Tsai, 2018). Teachers often report seeking out colleagues who teach the same grade or subject to get advice or to plan instruction together (Frank, 2009; Spillane et al., 2015). Given that research shows that professional…

In this study, the mediating role of perceived administrative support for the effect of teachers' job motivation on their organizational identification perceptions was investigated. For this purpose, in mind, the opinions of 320 kindergarten teachers in 304 schools from 13 different school districts of Sahinbey/Gaziantep were received. However,…

The aim of the study is to explore the relationship between Greek teachers' perceptions regarding their professional quality of life and their sense of efficacy. Further, the moderating effect of life satisfaction between the dimensions of compassion fatigue (burnout and secondary traumatic stress) and teachers' sense of efficacy is investigated.…

This research aims to explore the relationship between career decision regret, job satisfaction and life satisfaction as well as determining whether career decision regret significantly predicts job satisfaction and life satisfaction. Having a descriptive research design, the research has employed relational survey model. The population of the…

This study explored the effects of professional learning communities (PLCs) on teachers' self-efficacy and job satisfaction in Shanghai, China. Nine hundred and eighty-two school teachers participated in a survey. The results showed that PLCs in Shanghai China were characterised by both the teacher-centric and organisation-centric components. Two…

Although research has highlighted the importance of teachers' influence on school-wide policies, less attention has been given to the role of the influence of teachers relative to the principal within a school. This study thus examined the extent to which the influence of teachers relative to the principal in school decision-making predicts…

This experimental research aimed to 1) compare academic achievement in grammatical knowledge between an experimental group taught with the mind map concept and a control group taught with inductive concept and 2) compare the experimental and control group participants'satisfaction with the management of instructional activities to develop…