A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS OF TEACHERS’ BELIEFS ACROSS ENGLISH INSTITUTES IN NEISHABOUR AND MASHAD

Teachers are regarded as the basic tools in education and curriculum implementations. So, teachers play a key role in changing schools and classrooms. This paper seeks to examine the relationships between teachers’ beliefs about teaching with their educational background and gender. It also seeks to examine the relationships between teachers’ beliefs about learning with their educational background and gender. Teachers’ beliefs about teaching and Teachers’ beliefs about learning questionnaires were administered. The study involved one hundred and twenty five teachers made up of sixty males that 30 of them were Bachelor of Arts and 30 were Master of Arts Sixty five females, that 30 of them were Bachelor of arts(B.A.) and 35 were Master of arts (M.A.). Two questionnaires were used to collect data for the study. The first questionnaire is the "Teachers’ Beliefs Questionnaire about Teaching", and the second questionnaire is the "Teachers’ Beliefs Questionnaire about Learning". The result indicated that there exists a significant relationship between teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning with their educational background. The result also indicated that there exists no significant relationship between teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning with their gender.