Training School Principals as Talent Developers: An International Perspective focuses on how to prepare school principals to lead their schools by training and supporting teachers in their craft. The main goal of schools is improving teaching and learning in order to maximize students’ potential to be college ready and career ready. Principals play significant role in improving the instructions which improves students’ learning. In order to do so, we need inspiring principals to be talent developers. The book is comprised of chapters written by faculty and researchers from various countries and offers multiple perspectives on training and developing principals to be talent developers. In the ten chapters of this edited book, we wanted to address the perspectives of “who is the role model of a principal, what are the qualities needed to make a good principal and what are the challenges that the talent developer principals encounter to achieve their goals. We also wanted to broaden the lens by addressing these perspectives in the United States and globally.

Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn) is an interdisciplinary international journal of original research and writing on education. The EduLearn aims to provide a forum for scholarly understanding of the field of education and plays an important role in promoting the process that accumulated knowledge, values, and skills are transmitted from one generation to another; and to make methods and contents of evaluation and research in education available to teachers, administrators and research workers. Bilingualism and Vocabulary Learning: A Comparison between Baluchi and Persian EFL Learners Yahya Keikhaie, Amirali Khoshkhoonejad 183 Professionalization of Teaching in Nigeria: Strategies, Prospects and Challenges Oluremi Dorcas Fareo 190 Prospective Teachers Proportional Reasoning and Presumption of Student Work Mujiyem Sapti 197 The Challenges and Prospects of E-learning in National Open University of Nigeria Olukayode Solomon Aboderin 207 EFL Speaking Anxiety among Senior High School Students and Policy Recommendations Amirul Mukminin, Masbirorotni, Noprival, Sutarno, Nelly Arif, Maimunah 217 Developing Critical Thinking Skills of Students in Mathematics Learning Firdaus, Ismail Kailani, Md. Nor Bin Bakar, Bakry 226 The Role of the Educator in Adult Education Georgios Giannoukos, Georgios Besas, Christos Galiropoulos, Vasilios Hioctour 237 The Application of School Watching Method to Increase the Earthquake Disaster Knowledge of Primary School Students Sri Adelila Sari, Husnul Khatimah 241 Effects of Cooperative Learning on Students’ Academic Achievement Fariha Gull, Shumaila Shehzad 246 Rule of Nahwiyah Variations in Arabiyah Bayna Yadaik Book and its Contribution on Arabiyah Asasiyah Subject Maman Abdurrahman 256

Teacher education is vital for the realization of a nation’s development aspirations. The conception, incubation and delivery of any national development policy, as well as the reform and implementation of extant policies, are driven by the quality of teachers and their products within a functional educational system. Indeed, national and global models of development, including the millennium development goals revolve round the frames of quality education, beginning with teacher education. It is therefore important to have functional teacher education systems in Africa to help its citizens explore the networking of the world as a global village. This is achievable through a systematic mobilization of national resources and visible commitment to the development of a modernized cadre of scientific and technological manpower. This book is a rich exposition of theories and praxes essential for the development of teacher education in Africa. The book has immense benefits for teachers, teacher trainers, funding agencies, other stakeholders and policy makers.