Field trips are an important component of upper undergraduate and graduate-level science courses, especially in the fields of biology, geoscience, and environmental science. Field trips can provide a new perspective to a course's content and quality. Science field trips can facilitate active student learning, yet often can be constrained by time,…

How do secondary STEM teachers perceive the environments in which they teach? To what degree is STEM teaching at the secondary level situated in a gendered workplace organization? Using data from the 1999-2000 Schools and Staffing Survey, we examined how men and women who were full-time secondary school teachers in STEM fields (N = 5,617)…

The aim of the present research is to survey the views of teachers regarding social skills development in primary school students. The research was carried out using the qualitative research technique. A questionnaire prepared by the researcher was used to collect data. The results show that there are four main factors that play an important role…

Web-based instruction (WBI) is the latest wave of distance education development and one of the most promising instructional modes. Recent WBI research reports have indicated the effectiveness and utility of this instructional method for students and teachers. However, the relationships between the variables that have an impact on WBI have not…

Problem Statement: The student-centered teaching is the arrangement of the teaching experience focusing on the students' responsibilities and activities in the learning process which takes into consideration the students' interests, demands and needs. According to this approach, while teaching experiences are planned, different learning strategies…

This study examined whether attending a one day training on the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R) corresponded to pre-k classroom changes. Teachers attended an ECERS-R module training and six months later completed a questionnaire to report any classroom changes. The questionnaire consisted of listing the subscales and…

The research aims to showing the students misbehaviors in formal and private primary schools according to the perceptions of class teachers working in Kayseri in 2006-2007 academic year The data has been collected with the questionnaire developed by the researcher based on review survey and expert ideas. Questionnaire is applied to 245 teachers in…

If students are to become proficient at using social skills, parents must be involved in teaching and reinforcing these skills at home. Parent involvement is associated with increased student success, especially when it includes a two-way exchange of information between home and school. As the traditional family has changed, new methods of…

Parent involvement is of critical import in the education field in the fast developing country, China. However, since child development and childhood education are still new areas in China, the knowledge of and concepts for improving parent involvement in China's public schools is still very limited. Due to certain cultural and historical…

Classroom communication is too often a one-way proposition; pupils must not only be spectators, but participants, performing many activities that teachers now hoard for themselves. (Author/MB)

Within each classroom, students are taught the traditional subject matter courses and a hidden curriculum consisting of the teacher's personal biases. The teacher must have a healthy self-concept in order to create a positive classroom climate where healthy emotional growth and maximum intellectual growth can occur. (Author/CM)

A close-up of 257 teacher-student dyads shows predominantly "Happy Classrooms", in which teachers and students like and respect one another's evaluations and perceptions. The criteria of respect and liking consist of strictly conventional definitions of student roles. (Author/NQ)

Our nations' classrooms appear to be in trouble, with many students complaining that they feel alienated and many teachers saying that they are overwhelmed. Hence, these classrooms seem to be more like "battlegrounds," than "connecting places." Since it may be very counterproductive to maintain this type of an atmosphere within our classrooms, the…

School leaders face the difficult challenge of finding teachers who are highly qualified, committed, and prepared to ensure that all students achieve at levels mandated by NCLB. The pervasive strategy attempted by school districts to recruit teachers to high need schools is incentive programs that include either salary enhancement or bonuses.…

"Profile of a School Form T" was administered to teachers in four schools in Gary, Indiana. Main determinants of positive teacher perceptions of school climate were age and sex. Teacher experience, educational level and race had no effect; race was a factor in a separate analysis of communication and leadership. (MM)