Using questions in the classroom setting is an age-old practice and has been an influential technique of teaching for centuries. Questions are often used to enhance comprehension and develop critical-thinking skills in students. This technique of teaching stimulates learners to think, learn and act. The study aimed at exploring teachers' beliefs…

Family-professional partnerships are linked to student success, yet little research has explored the nuances of such partnerships with refugee families new to the U.S. school system. To explore this phenomenon, we conducted an embedded case study through which we qualitatively examined the family-professional partnerships between 10 newly…

Students face several challenges when asked to locate relevant and credible information from the internet. This article introduces three principles for designing online inquiry lessons and documents what we learned from five language arts teachers from Finland who implemented and provided feedback on a learning unit framed in those design…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to focus on the informal learning (IL) processes of teachers in primary and secondary schools in Spain. Its objective is to study the strategies currently used by teachers to generate IL, identifying the factors that condition such learning and the changes that must be introduced to enhance it.…

Although judicious grammar teaching in college ESOL instruction is generally accepted, little is known about the grammar teaching practices of teachers of school-age English language learners (ELLs), who are learning academic content as well as a new language. In this study, 86 primary and secondary teachers of ELLs in a U.S. metropolitan area…

Retaining new teachers has long been an issue that has plagued K-12 education (Garcia & Weiss, 2019; Ingersoll, 2001; Kelchtermans, 2017). While there is significant literature on general K-12 teacher retention (Borman & Dowling, 2008; Chapman & Hutcheson, 1982; Hanushek et al., 2004; Whipp & Geronime, 2015), there has been little…

Social studies teachers represent various political, racial, and ideological perspectives. It remains unclear how social studies teachers choose curricula and balance the racial representation they present and the implications for students' racial lenses and understanding of race in the past and present. This qualitative study will have an impact…

The more researchers understand the subtleties of teaching practices that productively use student thinking, the better we can support teachers to develop these teaching practices. In this paper, we report the results of an exploration into how secondary mathematics teachers' use of public records appeared to support or inhibit their efforts to…

Action research is a means for teachers and researchers to develop evidence-based practices. This paper reports the process and outcomes of "teaching sprints," an approach to action research, conducted by secondary school mathematics leaders as part of a professional learning program. Mathematics leaders consistently reported the value…

Educators' reading comprehension instructional practices have been identified as 1 of the factors that contribute to learners' poor reading comprehension performance. To this end, several studies were conducted to identify and analyse educators' practices while teaching reading comprehension. As a result, the aim of the study reported on here was…

During the turbulent 2018-19 school year, we researched Hong Kong teachers' perceptions regarding the design and implementation of National Education in schools for students aged 12-17. We seek to make a contribution to understandings of aspects of the cultural, political and social dimensions and contexts relevant to teacher education. 41 civic…

Moral education is a stimulation of the natural development of learners' moral judgement, which in turn, enables them to manage their behaviour. Schools can be successful in developing moral values in students through teachers and a positive school environment. However, due to teachers' packed routines and lack of school attention towards the…

The purpose of this study is to explore the expressions of confidence by a group of South African mathematics teachers about teaching mathematics and statistics concepts from various perspectives. The participants were 75 mathematics teachers who were teaching Grades 4 to 12 in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) schools. They then were asked to express their…

The purpose of this study was to examine the attitudes, values, and beliefs of New York music teachers towards the inclusion of popular music in the classroom. This research was guided by the following questions: (1) To what extent are K-12 teachers interested in teaching a variety of popular music instruments and styles?; (2) What attitudes and…

In this article, mentors' perceptions of paired practicum in initial teacher education in Sweden are studied. Taking the mentors' perspective, we describe the potentials and the pitfalls of paired practicum. The pros and cons of the model are analyzed from a perspective of learning the vocation of teaching as a two-sided endeavor. Inspired by a…