Developing your teaching style: increasing effectiveness in healthcare teaching

Developing your teaching style: increasing effectiveness in healthcare teaching.

This paper reports the first stage in the development of a tool, the Six Staffordshire Teaching Styles Questionnaire, designed to raise awareness in teachers about their teaching style. Effective teachers are adaptable and flexible in providing variety in their teaching activities, aiming to match their manipulation of the teaching and learning environment to the needs of the learner, but teach...

SEI : Increasing Teaching Effectiveness in Ecology

Marketing Your Teaching

In part this is because over half of Ph.D.s will teach at institutions in which teaching is as important, if not more important, than research. Departments in the non-Ivies need excellent teachers who can attract students—especially non-majors. They are looking for scholars who can not only publish, but who can teach successfully, and who can effectively advise and mentor students. Even Ivies a...

Teaching C in a Functional Style

The rst introduction to imperative programming for the majority of our students is with C, but fortunately it is preceded by a course on problem solving and program design using the lazy functional language Miranda. C is a diicult language to learn, but by drawing on the skills taught in the Miranda course, notions such as modularity, information hiding, recursion, abstraction, top-down design,...

Effectiveness of microteaching as a method of developing teaching competence among in-service medical teachers

Introduction: In spite of the fact that microteaching has beenpracticed extensively in most universities, its actual efficacyhas not been studied systematically. In this study, there was anattempt to quantify the efficacy of microteaching in inducingbehavioral change in teachers. We also aimed to determine theperceived utility and ease of this process in teacher training,using the feedback rece...