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Yaron Ghilay – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This study examines the swift shift to online learning prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, assessing the effectiveness of a faculty distance training program based on the TMOC (Training for the Management of Online Courses) model. The training program aimed to equip faculty with essential skills for online learning, emphasizing a blend of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Adjustment (to Environment), Distance Education
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Dubiner, Deborah – Language Awareness, 2018
This is the second of two articles based on a study of the contribution of vocabulary notebooks to the development of second language vocabulary, language awareness, metacognitive skills and pedagogical skills of non-native English-speaking pre-service teachers. In this article, the impact of reflections on non-native pre-service teachers'…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Metalinguistics, Vocabulary Development, Learning Processes
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Aflalo, Ester – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2014
Background: Understanding the nature of science (NOS) has been a key objective in teaching sciences for many years. Despite the importance of this goal it is, until this day, a complex challenge that we are far from achieving. Purpose: The study was conducted in order to further the understanding of the NOS amongst preservice teachers. It explores…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Attitudes, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Achituv, Sigal; Manzura, Shulamit – Journal of Jewish Education, 2016
This article summarizes a study of the viewpoints of Bible lecturers in the Kindergarten Education Department while teaching content related to the biblical "other." The study, by two researchers themselves part of the study population, was conducted according to the qualitative approach and included interviews with participants from a…
Descriptors: Biblical Literature, Student Characteristics, Kindergarten, Qualitative Research
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Miron, Mordechai; Mevorach, Miriam – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
The aim of this study was to uncover our graduate students' perceptions of who is a good professor. Although the data were collected and analyzed on an Israeli sample, the findings can contribute to the planning of graduate programs for experienced teachers and can extend the theoretical understanding of how to promote learning among experienced…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Foreign Countries
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Kahn-Horwitz, Janina – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
English foreign language (EFL) literacy achievement is a major challenge for EFL pupils in Israel. To better understand this challenge, this study used a quantitative approach to examine differences between experienced and preservice EFL teachers' content knowledge of the English orthography and the impact of a semester course on this knowledge. A…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Statistical Analysis
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Kramarski, Bracha; Revach, Tali – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2009
This study investigated mathematics teachers' professional knowledge among elementary school teachers exposed to a professional training program that either supported self-regulated learning (SRL) or offered no SRL support (no-SRL). The SRL support was based on the IMPROVE metacognitive self-questioning method that directs students' attention to…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Barak, Moshe; Shakhman, Larisa – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2008
The study reported in this article aimed at exploring what teachers know and do about fostering higher-order thinking skills in teaching science, and how they see themselves involved in achieving this end. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 11 teachers experienced in teaching high school physics, which is considered a…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Constructivism (Learning), Physics, Thinking Skills
Doerr, Helen M.; Wood, Terry – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This research forum addresses the question: what is the nature of the mathematical knowledge that is needed for secondary teaching? Six international contributors: (1) Australia (Kaye Stacey); (2) Brazil (Marcelo Borba); (3) Israel (Ruhama Even); (4) Norway (Bodil Kleve and Barbara Jaworski); (5) Taiwan (Fou-Lai Lin); and (6) USA (Helen Doerr)…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Education, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
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Galili, Igal; Hazan, Amnon – International Journal of Science Education, 2000
Explores high school students' and preservice teachers' knowledge of light, vision, and related topics before and after commonly practiced instruction. Suggests a hierarchical structure to represent the collective conceptual knowledge of students and teachers in terms of facets and schemes of knowledge. Makes suggestions for designing instruction…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries, High Schools
Woo, Jeong-Ho, Ed.; Lew, Hee-Chan, Ed.; Park, Kyo-Sik Park, Ed.; Seo, Dong-Yeop, Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2007
This second volume of the 31st annual proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education conference presents research reports for author surnames beginning Alc- through Hal-. Reports include: (1) How Do Your Students Think about Proof? A DVD Resource for Mathematicians (Lara Alcock); (2) Teachers' Conceptions of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness