The Relationship Between Teacher Leaders and Teacher Attrition
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2018
Pages:
34-38
Received:
15 October 2018
Accepted:
16 November 2018
Published:
24 December 2018
DOI:
10.11648/j.tecs.20180304.11
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Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between teacher leaders and teacher attrition and its impact on students attending public schools in the United States. Teacher leadership has been recognized as being an integral part in operating schools efficiently and effectively with outcomes of success. School administrators have realized the value that teacher leaders bring into the schools. Teacher leaders can influence the schools’ climates which in turn influences the learning environments in the classrooms. Teachers are collaborative and supportive for one another and especially for beginning teachers when there are teacher leaders on the faculty. In the United States during the last decade, teacher attrition isn’t decreasing but appears to become an even more serious problem in the coming years. Approximately 40 percent of beginning teachers will leave the classroom within their first five years of teaching. Teacher attrition is even a higher percentage within schools that serve minority and low-income students. This study identifies some of major contributing factors being attributed to the high rates of teacher attrition rate. In addition, this discusses what are some of the possible approaches in reducing this high rate of teachers exiting the profession.
Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between teacher leaders and teacher attrition and its impact on students attending public schools in the United States. Teacher leadership has been recognized as being an integral part in operating schools efficiently and effectively with outcomes of success. School administrators have realized the value tha...
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Critical Thinking Magnificence in Teaching Reading Comprehension
Mustafa Mohamed Ahmed Younis
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2018
Pages:
39-45
Received:
17 November 2018
Accepted:
13 December 2018
Published:
17 January 2019
DOI:
10.11648/j.tecs.20180304.12
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Abstract: This study tries to investigate the impact of using critical thinking in teaching reading comprehension on the secondary students' ability to read critically about every textbook issue in particular and further to find out about life needs in general. The study focuses on achieving five goals among which: to recognize the significant difference of knowledge between students who are taught critically and those who aren’t. The method to collect data involved two tools. A questionnaire distributed to secondary English teachers (n=70) all over the tripartite capital of Sudan among them were some English native speakers. The second tool was pretest & posttest which carried out to the 3rd grade secondary students (n=30). During this period, interventions were put into place to teach participants how to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize texts instead of keeping rote learning. Statistical systems of SPSS and T-test were used in analyzing data. On the base of analysis, findings indicated that the use of critical thinking in teaching would highly improve students’ abilities to think within a discipline and moreover, provide a powerful incentive to look more closely at possible consequences of integrating this model more widely into educational curricula. Due to findings it was recommended that ministry of education should guide schools and institutes to adopt the use of critical thinking in teaching school materials chiefly in high levels.
Abstract: This study tries to investigate the impact of using critical thinking in teaching reading comprehension on the secondary students' ability to read critically about every textbook issue in particular and further to find out about life needs in general. The study focuses on achieving five goals among which: to recognize the significant difference of ...
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