Organizing and Improving School Environment

Edited by Stelios Orphanos

ISBN: 978-960-9549-79-0, 200 pages

First published in 2012 by ATINER

Price: Paperback: 40€ (It includes Shipping and Handling)

Electronic copy: 30€

Table of Contents

1.	Organizing and Improving School Environment: An Introduction	1
	Stelios Orphanos
Part A: Improving Schooling for Teachers
2.	Teaching and Teacher Education in the US: What does the Literature tell us? Su Liang	7
3.	Listening to Informal Teacher Discourse About Students of Color: An Instructional Strategy for “Tuning the Ear” to Deficit Discourse in Preparation for School Leadership Terry M. Pollack	17
4.	Urban Education in the United States: A Call to Action John W. Hunt	27
5.	Elementary Pre-Service Primary Teachers’ Self-Efficacy toward the Constructivist Approach and their Opinions about their Efficacy Levels Ertug Evrekli, Fatma Sasmaz Oren and Didem Inel	37
6.	Problems faced by Turkish Mathematics Teachers during Lessons according to the Results of the TIMSS 1999 and the TIMMS 2007 Ufuk Akbaş, R. Nükhet Demirtaşli Çikrikçi and Özen Yildirim	55
7.	Trans-cultural Electronic Professional Dialogues for Nurturing Teacher Candidates’ Competencies Tunde Szecsi	69
8.	Effective School according to Elementary Education Teachers and Students Erten Gökçe and Aliye Erdem	83
Part B: Improving Instruction and Student Competences
9.	ID4C (Instructional Design for Competencies): A Model Compliant with the EQF Gaetano Bruno Ronsivalle and Marisa Orlando	97
10.	The Influence of Idols on Adolescents' Development. Should Parents and Teachers be Afraid of it? Jolanta Spychalska-Kamińska	119
11.	The Importance of Integrating the Ancient Greece Cultural Values in the Subject “History of Culture” in Latvian Secondary Schools Austra Avotina	129
12.	Omega-3 Oils and Learning in Children: A New Zealand Perspective Kerry Lee, Michael Townsend and Welma Stonehouse	139
13.	Teachers’ Biases in gifted Children Identification Process H. Elif Daglioglu	151
14.	Readiness for the First Grade as predicted by the Bender Gestalt Test in a Turkish Sample Serap Ozer	163
15.	Promoting Social Competences among 5^th and 6^th Grade Students – PAR Program: A Constructivist Program of Intervention José Reis-Jorge and Sandra Fétal	173