The teacher educator's role in promoting institutional versus individual teacher well-being

J Margolis, A Hodge, A Alexandrou - Journal of Education for …, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This article addresses the teacher educator's role in defining and facilitating teacher well-
being. It does so by first exploring the literature on teacher well-being, resilience, resistance …

Reflections on the pedagogical imports of western practices for professionalizing ESL/EFL writing and writing-teacher education

LJ Zhang - Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 2016 - jbe-platform.com
The teaching of writing in English as a second/foreign language (ESL/EFL) has been a
challenging task for many teachers due to its multifaceted nature. This paper is a reflection …

Large-scale implementation of formative assessment practices in an examination-oriented culture

CTL Ratnam-Lim, KHK Tan - Assessment in Education: Principles …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Singapore's education system has often been characterised as exam-oriented. This paper
describes efforts ('windmills') made by the Government to constructively respond to the …

Instructional strategies and linguistic features of kindergarten teachers' shared book reading: The case of Singapore

H Sun, W Toh, R Steinkrauss - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2020 - cambridge.org
Teachers' language practice during shared book reading may significantly affect the rate
and outcome of early language proficiency. The current study has focused on 37 …

Educational reform and teachers' agency in reconstructing pedagogical practices in Kazakhstan

N Yakavets, L Winter, K Malone, Z Zhontayeva… - Journal of Educational …, 2023 - Springer
This paper explores how schoolteachers in Kazakhstan engaged with the Renewed Content
of Education (RCE) that has been introduced by the Government, and how changes in their …

Implementing foreign language curriculum innovation in a Chinese secondary school: An ethnographic study on teacher cognition and classroom practices

Y Zhu, D Shu - System, 2017 - Elsevier
This article reports on a four-year-long ethnographic study on a curriculum innovation
project introducing a weak form of communicative language teaching (CLT) at a Chinese …

Learning “new” instructional strategies: Pedagogical innovation, teacher professional development, understanding and concerns

RE Silver, G Kogut, TCD Huynh - Journal of Teacher …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Teacher professional development (TPD) through supported pedagogical innovations relies
on teacher understanding (TU) of what is proposed, how the innovation can be enacted, and …

[PDF][PDF] An exploration of impact factors influencing students' reading literacy in Singapore with machine learning approaches

X Dong, J Hu - International Journal of English Linguistics, 2019 - researchgate.net
This study identified the contextual factors which differentiated 15-year-old students with
high-and low-achieving reading literacy in Singapore based on Program for International …

[图书][B] Knowledge, control and critical thinking in Singapore: State ideology and the politics of pedagogic recontextualization

L Lim - 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
This book examines how critical thinking is regulated in Singapore through the process of
what the influential sociologist of education Basil Bernstein termed" pedagogic …

[图书][B] From language skills to literacy: Broadening the scope of English language education through media literacy

C Weninger - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
The narrowing of English language education curriculum in many contexts has negatively
impacted classroom teaching and learning. High-stakes standardized testing, scripted …