Mindful practice for teachers: Relieving stress and enhancing positive mindsets

SPECIAL COMMUNICATION Mindful Practice

REFLECTION AND SELF-AWAREness help physicians to examine belief systems and values, deal with strong feelings, make difficult decisions, and resolve interpersonal conflict. Organized activities to foster self-awareness are part of many family medicine residency programs and some other residency and medical school curricula. Exemplary physicians seem to have a capacity for critical self-reflecti...

Teachers and Technology: Enhancing Technology Competencies for Preservice Teachers

Iranian EFL Students’ Perceptions and Preferences for Teachers’ Written Feedback: Do Students’ ideas Reflect Teachers’ Practice?

The present study-both qualitative and quantitative--explored fifty EFL learners’ preferences for receiving error feedback on different grammatical units as well as their beliefs about teacher feedback strategies. The study also examined the effect of the students’ level of writing ability on their views about the importance of teacher feedback on different error types. Data was gathered throug...

Mindful medical practice: just another fad?

A thoughtful colleague pointed out that over the past 50 years we have experimented with many different ways to humanize medicine. Recently, a few of our attempts have included explicitly promoting empathy,1 inculcating cultural competence,2 and offering courses on narrative medicine.3 This is not to say that any of these approaches have failed, but we are still searching—and recent evidence su...

Leveraging Motivational Mindsets to Foster Positive Interracial Interactions

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse, interracial contact will become considerably less rare. Much research has suggested that interracial interactions are often stressful and uncomfortable for both Whites and racial minorities. Bringing together several bodies of research, the present article outlines a motivational perspective on the dynamics of intergroup contact. To this end, w...