Utilizing Bronfenbrenner's ecosystem framework, this study provides contextualized understanding of teachers' personal styles in EFL classrooms in the context of Iran.
In a period of radical educational reform, improving understanding of teachers' professional learning is important for those who seek to make changes in classroom practice.
The results of this study can be used to offer a better understanding of teachers' needs of using e-textbooks, and to help novice teachers' application in e-textbook.
Also, exchanges and mutual understanding of teachers in day nurseries and elementary schools are required, and data should be transferred to elementary schools in to enable continuity of support for children's development.4.4
This distinction was made in order to have a more fine-grained understanding of teachers' own priorities, as we understood that the importance of having a good verbal command of a language versus reading/writing in such a language might be different for teachers.
The common problems in implementing student portfolio assessment were (a) a lack of knowledge and deep understanding of teachers in implementing student portfolio assessment, (b) a poor attention and cooperation of students in creating the portfolios, and (c) a lack of materials and budgets to support teachers in implementing student portfolio assessment.
The findings expand our understanding of language teacher attrition, by showing that teachers who felt professionally valued and who had strong relationships with their colleagues and administrative leaders were less likely to leave language teaching.
An imitative strategy, namely mutual following, is used to create a common perceptual context to learner and teacher agents, upon which the learner grounds its understanding of the teacher's words.
This understanding of the teacher labor market has led policy makers, practitioners, and administrators to advocate to eliminate or at least minimize such teacher transfers through scholarly work, position papers, lawsuits, or policy changes2.
How (if at all) do rubrics add to your understanding of your teacher's expectations?
