Teaching and Teacher Education

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Influence of teacher empowerment on teachers' organizational commitment, professional commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in schools

Ronit Bogler, Anit Somech

Teaching and Teacher Education > 2004 > 20 > 3 > 277-289

The present study focuses on the relationship between teacher empowerment and teachers' organizational commitment, professional commitment (PC) and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). It examines which subscales of teacher empowerment can best predict these outcomes. The data were collected through a questionnaire returned by a sample of 983 teachers in Israeli middle and high schools. Pearson...

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Teacher representations of the successful use of computer-based tools and resources in secondary-school English, mathematics and science

Kenneth Ruthven, Sara Hennessy, Sue Brindley

Teaching and Teacher Education > 2004 > 20 > 3 > 259-275

This study investigated professional thinking about pedagogical aspects of technology use in mainstream classroom practice. It focuses on the systems of ideas which frame teacher accounts of the successful use of computer-based tools and resources in the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science at secondary-school level. These accounts were elicited through group interviews with the relevant...

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School science constrained: print experiences in two elementary classrooms

Patricia M. Rowell, Margaretha Ebbers

Teaching and Teacher Education > 2004 > 20 > 3 > 217-230

Little is known about the ways in which teachers in elementary classrooms scaffold opportunities for students to engage with print resources during science inquiry lessons. Case studies have been conducted in two Grade 6 classrooms in a school jurisdiction which does not mandate use of a textbook. Inquiry-oriented instructional materials for teaching two units entitled Air and Flight were developed...

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Teaching a foreign language: one teacher's practical theory

Francis Mangubhai, Perce Marland, Ann Dashwood, Jeong-Bae Son

Teaching and Teacher Education > 2004 > 20 > 3 > 291-311

In recent decades, teachers of second languages in many countries, including Australia, have been encouraged to use an approach known as communicative language teaching (CLT). This approach advocates the development of communicative competence as a primary goal through the extensive use of the second language as a means of communication during classroom lessons. Understandably, education authorities...

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Reflection as a visible outcome for preservice teachers

John R. Ward, Suzanne S. McCotter

Teaching and Teacher Education > 2004 > 20 > 3 > 243-257

As the standards movement progresses, efforts to encourage reflection by student teachers are often undermined. In this piece, we analyze exemplars of student teacher reflection coming from two very different approaches to outcomes-based teacher preparation. We use these exemplars to develop a rubric that illuminates the dimensions and qualities of reflection. This rubric helps clarify how meaningful...

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Australian and Chinese teacher efficacy: similarities and differences in personal instruction, discipline, guidance efficacy and beliefs in external determinants

Irene T. Ho, Kit-Tai Hau

Teaching and Teacher Education > 2004 > 20 > 3 > 313-323

The present research examined and compared Australian and Chinese teachers' personal efficacy in instruction, discipline, guidance and beliefs about external influences. Two staged studies were conducted with the participation of 316 Australian teachers (108, 208 in first and second stages, respectively) and 411 Hong Kong Chinese teachers (138, 273, respectively). Results of multiple-group confirmatory...

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Trying to teach well: a story of small discoveries

P.J. Lewis

Teaching and Teacher Education > 2004 > 20 > 3 > 231-242

''Stories do not simply contain knowledge, they are themselves the knowledge''(Jackson (In: K. Eagan, H. McEwan (Eds.), Narrative in Teaching, Learning and Research, Teacher College Press, New York, 1995, p. 5)).How can we teach well? Perhaps we can find answers through our stories from the classroom. It is through our stories that we make sense of our experience. The potential for shared meaning...

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Teaching and Teacher Education

Influence of teacher empowerment on teachers' organizational commitment, professional commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in schools

Teacher representations of the successful use of computer-based tools and resources in secondary-school English, mathematics and science

School science constrained: print experiences in two elementary classrooms

Teaching a foreign language: one teacher's practical theory

Editorial board/Publication info

Reflection as a visible outcome for preservice teachers

Australian and Chinese teacher efficacy: similarities and differences in personal instruction, discipline, guidance efficacy and beliefs in external determinants

Trying to teach well: a story of small discoveries

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