نشریه توسعه حرفه ای معلم
سال دوم شماره 2 (پیاپی 4، تابستان 1396)

Environment education at schools can act as an asset to help make students committed, responsible and active adults and citizens regarding environmental issues. As a result of their behaviours originating from acquired knowledge, attitudes and skills in this regard, the damage to environment is prevented and it is, accordingly, protected. The education can be transferred to the future generations as a valuable heritage. The current study aimed to study the degree of attention paid to environment education in natural sciences textbooks in terms of text, illustration and activities. The data collection procedure in this applied research was a descriptive survey. Considering the nature and aims of the study, the researcher employed content analysis by using checklist evaluation. The subjects and concepts of environment were represented in 12 main questionnaire items and 136 minor items. These main items included: water, population, soil, climate change, environment variety, human-made pollutants, attempt for earth rebirth, climate stability, effective use of earth resources, poverty eradication, non-civil use of land and moral teachings of environment protection. The results show that the most attention to the items of environment education was paid to in the first grade textbook of sciences .In addition, the next highest degrees of attention to the education were found in the textbooks of grades 9, 7 and 8, respectively. The significance of some items was observed but some items were totally or partially overlooked, signifying the point that more attention to these items can result in the improvement of students environment behaviours.

In recent years, academic burnout has attracted education experts’ attention due to its negative effect on learning and teaching processes. Burnout is a negative physical, emotional and cognitive tiredness which is accompanied with a deep feeling of work failure. It is demonstrated in prolonged fatigue caused by excessive attempt in academic/educational activities, pessimism and indifference towards /university activities, a feeling of being incompetent and lack of achievement in doing homework. Accordingly, the current study aims to investigate the relationship between students’ mental health and academic burnout. The statistical population included all teacher-students studying in Kordestan Farhangian University in 1395-1396. 121 subjects were selected through simple random sampling. Academic burnout questionnaire (Berso et al, 1997) and mental health questionnaire (GHQ28) were employed to collect data. The results indicate that there is a meaningful relationship between mental health and academic burnout. Mental health significantly and strongly predicates academic burnout.

The purpose of the present study is the introduction of a method of analyzing the content of textbooks by teachers through the William  Romey’s model. Through this model, teachers can examine the engagement rate of textbooks. In order to acquaint the audience with this method, the case study method was used, and the aim was for the audience to be acquainted in a step-by-step manner with content analysis by presenting an example of content analysis through William Romey’s model. The case study was conducted on junior high school science textbooks for grades one, two, and three. In William Romey’s model, text, images, and questions from textbooks are analyzed. If the engagement rate of each section is less than 0.4, the book is passive and the engagement rate is low, so by identifying the passive sections, teachers can take strategies to overcome this problem and compensate for the weakness through alternative methods. Furthermore, teachers can help improve textbooks and assist the authors to address the problems in them.

The aim of this study is to identify opportunities and constraints of teachers was a multi grade classroom. This applied research methodology was qualitative. The population consisted of teachers multi grade classroom  Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province Purposive sampling, 18 individuals have been selected for review. Data were collected through interviews. The validity of construct validity, internal and external funded. Reliability, the method of peer debriefing, Member checking and external auditor funded. The data analysis by thematic analysis method. According to the results, teachers student based, infrastructure for collaborative learning and problem-solving exploration and teaching method, increased teamwork, confidence, responsibility, power of expression, emotional stability and self-management among students opportunities and Shortage of time, the fading of some courses, lack of teachers, the great responsibility of teachers, lack of knowledge, distraction and difficult to organize students, inappropriate age and sex composition, parents' lack of cooperation, lack and poor quality of facilities and teaching space, lack of services multi grade knew the limits of classes and health facilities.

The research aims to comparatively study the learning styles of Hamedan's Farhangian University Teacher Students in order to improve the design of teacher professional development activities. To this end, a sample was randomly chosen from the male and female teacher students of Hamedan's Farhangian University (i.e., Shahid Bahonar and Shahid Maghsudi Branches). After the administration and data analysis of a standard test to recognize the subjects' convergent and divergent learning styles, three groups were identified to have convergent, divergent and intermediate thinking styles. Statistical results showed that the maximum, mean and minimum frequency belonged to convergent, divergent and intermediate learning styles, respectively. In addition, the findings indicate that the students of educational sciences were more creative and showed higher percentage of divergence in comparison to the students of other courses. It is also worthy of note that some suggestions regarding the variety of learning styles among students are proposed to design teacher professional development activities for teacher students.

Evaluation is the most important tools for determining the quality of a process and Curriculum. The mission of universities are teaching, research and Health care service. In this study were evaluated teaching quality of faculty members and instructors of Hamedan’s Farhangian University branches from the students’ points of view. This research is a descriptive survey.The population of this descriptive survey, 1170 subjects, included all male and female students admitted in Shahid Bahonar and Shahid Maghsudi branches. The sample of 530 students was randomly selected. The data-collection instrument in this study was Mycourse scale. The questionnaire consisted of 50 questions based on the five-choice Likert scale and included 8 components (i.e. the techniques of classroom management, appropriate classroom behavior, the focus on and maintenance of attention to the lesson, the preparation of review and practice, inquiry skills, the employment of different teaching methods, the creation of a positive atmosphere in the classroom and the rate of expressing problem-solving strategies in the classroom). The reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by using the Cronbach's alpha coefficient.The analysis of data revealed showed that the t value was significant at P≥0.05. In addition, there was a significant difference between the two branches in terms of the components of teaching quality. There were significant differences between the eight components of teaching quality in terms of special and general courses. The teaching quality of general courses in the eight components was less than those of special courses. The teaching quality of faculty members and instructors of Farhangian University branches in Hamadan was measured to be higher than average in the components of Mycourse scale from the students’ points of view. Evaluation as a valuable source of reliable information for feedback to teachers in order to improve the quality of education is supreme.