Attracting teachers to rural schools continues to be a problem in Australian education. Debates on how to remedy staff shortages are based on a better distribution of financial and material resources. This emphasis on distribution has sidelined the role of recognition theory in understanding the challenges of rural staffing. I draw on the social…

Background: Education is increasingly a bureaucratized, standardized and regulated service in which everything is decided by the 'experts'. There is an abandonment of the concept of education centred on the subject, social progress and collective transformation. Thus, education in general and teacher-training in particular, need innovative…

The purpose of this study was to form a greater understanding of the experiences and challenges confronting K-8 public school teachers of gifted students. Education of the gifted and talented elementary student is the development of a scholar as an independent learner that is autonomous. Public school administrators, general education teachers,…

With the use of a variety of digital tools, services, and applications to enhance the learning environment, technology is now deeply interwoven within the educational process. Technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge (TPACK) model was used as a lens to evaluate GeoGebra's potential and limitations in the teaching and learning of Limits…

This study explores the development of a pre-service teacher's mental structure from a motion view to a mapping view of geometric reflection. Many pre-service secondary mathematics teachers' (PTs) understand geometric reflection as a motion rather than a mapping of a domain containing points in a plane relative to a reflection line, which is an…

The teacher certification process can be overwhelming for early-career educators. Negotiating teacher identity, completing fieldwork hours, and navigating institutional expectations can stress the most resilient teacher candidates. These pressures are further compounded as teacher certification assessments, such as the edTPA, introduce additional…

This study reports the measured impact of attendance at after school science club (ASSC) on the progress and attainment of Key stages 3 and 4 students in a coeducation academy in the UK. The research was experimental in design and collected data from both a control and an experimental group of participants, 17 and 140 respectively. Data were…

The present work aims to explore the knowledge that the students of the Master's Degree in Teaching at the University of La Laguna have about the functions of educational guidance and their role as teachers and tutors. To this end, this paper presents a review of the role of educational guidance in a Secondary Education center and the role of the…

High schools throughout the United States, especially those serving high poverty and high minority communities, struggle to find qualified science teachers to fill vacancies, a situation that has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This science teacher shortage is caused by a combination of low levels of recruitment into the…

The COVID-19 pandemic led to a shift in education that necessitated that teachers adapt how they educate and communicate with their students. Previous researchers examined general education teachers' experiences transitioning to online teaching but did not establish how alternative teachers and the at-risk students they taught were affected. The…

Principals' instructional leadership bolsters and supports teaching and learning. The study aimed to explore the principals' classroom observation practices and their influence on teaching and learning in public secondary schools in Machakos Sub-County, Kenya. Weber's (1996) instructional leadership model served as the foundation for the study.…

Smartphones and tablets have permeated various aspects of life. This study explores the differences in wishes between students, parents, and teachers regarding the use of smartphones and tablets in biology classes in the upcoming school year. An online questionnaire was used for the study, which provided eight different scenarios for the use of…

The purpose of this study was to identify and characterize the pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) held by secondary mathematics preservice teachers. Task-based interviews were conducted to determine whether evidence of PCK exists in preservice teachers and, if so, what form that evidence took. Participants included preservice teachers near the…

Classroom management skills are crucial for teacher effectiveness. Classroom management instruction in the twenty-first century may increasingly benefit from technological advances in virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence (AI). This exploratory study of preservice secondary school teachers (n = 41) at a public university in the…

The crucial role of teacher-student relationships has been reported in many studies. Yet, how teacher-student relationships develop from moment-to-moment interactions during lessons remains understudied. The present study combined insights from interpersonal theory and dynamic systems approaches to study indices of interpersonal content and…