TEACHER SELF-EFFICACY AND TEACHER WORK ENGAGEMENT FOR EXPATRIATE TEACHERS AT INTERNATIONAL K12 SCHOOLS IN CHINA

The purpose of this non-experimental, descriptive quantitative survey study was to evaluate if teacher self-efficacy predicts teacher work engagement for expatriate teachers in international schools in China. The purposive sample was composed of 103 expatriate, international school teachers who have worked in China during the past 10 years at an international K12 school and are personally known to the researcher or the researcher’s contacts. The Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) and the Engaged Teachers Scale (ETS) measured teacher self-efficacy and teacher work engagement. Results from simple linear regression indicated a statistically significant predictive relationship between teacher self-efficacy and teacher work engagement. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that the student engagement dimension of self-efficacy was the most statistically significantly predictive of study participants’ overall perception of their level of work engagement. Multiple linear regression analysis indicated that the teacher work engagement factors of emotional engagement and social engagement with students were the most statistically significantly predictive of study participants’ overall perceptions of self-efficacy. The data suggest that investigating the role of teacher self-efficacy and its impact on teacher work engagement can address the problem of hiring and retaining quality expat teachers in international schools in China

Effects of d -amphetamine and morphine on behavior maintained by fixed -interval schedules

The present experiments tested the effects of d-amphetamine and morphine on pigeons\u27 responding during conventional and clocked FI schedules of food reinforcement. The first experiment compared performance between FI 5-min and continuously clocked FI 5-min components of a multiple schedule in which the rate of the houselight flashing increased in a continuous manner. The second experiment examined the differences between keypecking maintained by FI 5-min, response-dependent clocked FI 5-min, and response-independent clocked FI 5-min components of a multiple schedule. In the response-dependent clocked FI component, each peck produced a stimulus change that was correlated with the passage of time, while the response-independent clocked FI component provided the stimulus change without a peck requirement. The main effect of both d-amphetamine and morphine was an increase in early-interval responding in all FI components. This result was not consistent with previous studies in that usually behavior under the control of clock stimuli is resistant to the early rate-increasing effects of these drugs. While attending to time in the interval is beneficial in FI schedules, added clock stimuli may remove this importance allowing for drugs to have their effect by causing the pigeons to fail to attend to the relevant stimuli such that other factors control responding

Bragging about bragg

Jennifer L. Martin, an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland, considers Lawrence Bragg as one of the best scientists in the world. She is ashamed of those people, generally Australians, who do not recognize Bragg. He was born in Adelaide on 31st March 1890 and was the first Australian to win a Nobel Prize. Lawrence and his father William H. Bragg were jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays. Bragg's law unlocked the secrets of atomic structure and chemical bonding and established an entirely new field of science. Lawrence Bragg became the director of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge where he fostered the careers of many other researchers. Later, as Director of the Royal Institution in London, he mentored other protein crystallography greats including David Phillips and Louise Johnson

Moving through fear: A conversation with Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Prior to its release in August 2010, Susan Campbell Bartoletti\u27s newest book, They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group (2010), received an incredibly positive response in the form of starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, Publisher\u27s Weekly, Horn Book, and Kirkus Reviews. Through her impeccable research and ability to weave a compelling story out of the place where darkness and light smack up against each other (Bartoletti & Zusak, 2008), she has made it possible for children and young adults to access and understand the horror of the Third Reich in Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler\u27s Shadow (2005), famine in Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine (2001), and child labor in Kids on Strike! (1999) and Growing Up in Coal Country (1996). Richie Partington (2010), in his Richie\u27s Pick review of They Called Themselves the K.K.K., writes It is, of course, through reading a book like this -- and understanding the Why? -- that we gain the insight necessary to help stop the flames of hatred and fear from spreading in whatever direction they next travel. We had the occasion to talk with Susan shortly after she turned in the manuscript for They Called Themselves the K.K.K., and she graced us with her delightful sense of humor and answered questions about her writing process and body of work -- a perfect fit with this issue\u27s theme: literature that promotes healing, compassion, and activism. You can find out more about Susan at her website, http://www.scbartoletti.com

Of Wondrous Places and “Benevolent Neglect”: An Interview with Pam Munoz Ryan

With her recent book, Paint the Wind (2007), hitting the shelves this fall, author Pam Munoz Ryan delivers a welcome addition to the 25 plus books she has written for young people, including her award-winning novels Esperanza Rising (2000) and Riding Freedom (1998) and picture books Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride (1999) and When Marian Sang (2002). With sense of place as the focus, this article presents an interview with Ryan about her thoughts on the place of imagination in her writing and in the lives of the readers she writes for; the place of history and research in her writing; the place of culture and identity in her life and in the lives of her characters; and a place for her books in the classroom and in the world of children\u27s literature

Organic, Symbiotic Digital Collection Development

One of the critical success factors most evident in this project is cooperation and collaboration on a community-wide scale. while grants and internal resource allocations provided the necessary start-up funds, partnership working enabled the project leaders to lever additional funds from other sources. Success has bred success, with other partners wanting to participate as a result of initial achievement. Care needs to be taken however, when there is multiple bidding for funds as a partner institution, and clarity of role is required in applications

A Mother, a Teacher, Nancy Drew, and a U.N. Interpreter: The Aspirations of Deborah Wiles

In an interview, Deborah Wiles, a children\u27s book author and National Book Award finalist, discusses the new trilogy of novels she is writing based on the 1960s. Other topics discussed include balancing humor with seriousness, making connections between seemingly disconnected themes, striving to help young people make difficult choices, and honoring family in her stories

Introduction: Transgressing Borders/Boundaries: Gendering Space and Place

Introduction: Transgressing Borders/Boundaries: Gendering Space and Plac