The impact of a continuing teacher guidance system was studied. The system provided to teachers consisted of in-school guidance, written guidance, and in-service teacher training. The guidance system was developed in connection with the more comprehensive project of developing a new mathematics curriculum for junior high schools in Israel. (DWH)

Investigated how Israeli secondary physics student teachers developed understanding of the concept of force during preservice teaching. Results from a longitudinal study included the fact that most respondents: held the Aristotelian impetus misconception; held the fading-away concept; had difficulty recognizing reaction as a force; and were…

Examines the role of work in teachers' stories in an Israeli religious school with 76 teachers, 56 of whom are women. Teachers' stories present the conflict between the modern consumer society, with the modern woman's role, and the traditional religious community and the roles of wife and mother. Stories also present teachers' solutions to the…

Examined relations between Israeli teachers' subject matter knowledge (SMK), teaching experience, and espoused mental models (MMs) about children's learning. The SMK tested was English "wh-" constructions. Seventh-grade teachers were classified on subject matter tasks to have high or low SMK. Interviews examined their MMs. Despite…

Background: Much research has sought to investigate emotions and forms of emotion management among teachers worldwide, including the connection between educational change and teacher emotion; the association between the culture of teaching and teachers' emotional experience within parent-teacher interactions; the link between teacher emotion and…

Proof by mathematical induction is known to be conceptually difficult for high school students. This paper presents results from interviews with six experienced high school teachers, concerning the use of models in teaching mathematical induction. Along with creative and adequate use of models, we found explanations, models and examples that…

Presents a study to determine whether biology students in preservice training to become high school teachers hold correct scientific views that will eventually allow them to plan and implement instructional strategies which in turn will lead their future students to achieve a correct scientific concept of force. (Author/DKM)

Interviews regular and special education teachers concerning knowledge and attitudes towards attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD) and learning disabilities (LD). Determined that general knowledge was low among both groups. Three-quarters of teachers favored increasing peer awareness as to problems LD students encounter at school. No…

This discussion among seven experts in gifted education includes consideration of the organization of integrated arts and sciences curriculum, course content, and the qualities needed in the faculty of a special high school in Israel. Author/KM)

Confidence in subject matter knowledge and in teaching ability, as well as actual subject matter competence of 157 grade 7-9 teachers were measured in order to assess the impact of an inservice course in mathematics instruction. Results are discussed. (Author/MT)

This paper describes prospective secondary school mathematics teachers' images and definitions of inflection points. The data indicate that prospective teachers tended to regard f[prime](x)=0 and/or the location "where the graph bends" as necessary/sufficient conditions for inflection points. The solutions were based on previous…

Israeli researchers collected stories from secondary teachers in their staff room, examining form and function of storytelling. The stories described situations where the teachers had terrible classes or students but succeeded in improving things. The teachers' stories created images of the ideal teacher and socialized teachers to those images.…

Reports a study that investigated a model for predicting commitment to teaching as measured by the extent to which Israeli teachers expressed an unwillingness to change careers. Surveys of elementary and secondary teachers indicated that only job satisfaction directly predicted commitment; other factors such as professional self-image, abilities,…

Interviews with 6 junior high school teachers in Israel (3 novices and 3 who had 4-19 years of experience) yielded the following contexts for professional dilemmas: transition from student to teacher for novices; classroom concerns such as autonomy, curriculum planning, and ethical issues for both groups; and gaps between ideology and reality in…

In Israel 194 junior high, 183 high school, and 89 college students and 148 elementary-secondary teachers evaluated the femininity-masculinity of 27 occupations, using either vague instructions or on the basis of gender-related capabilities. The gender-related condition resulted in less sex-typing. College students and females expressed less…