Pedagogical Artistry as a Professional Feature

The Artistry of Construction

Discover – Deepen – Do: a 3D Pedagogical Approach for Developing Newly Qualified Teachers as Professional Learners

This article presents a strategy for teaching newly qualified teachers (NQTs) during their first year of teaching, developed by teacher educators from the University of Hertfordshire School of Education. The strategy included a new learning and teaching approach designed to enable NQTs to: develop as critically reflective teachers; build confidence in their professional 'voices'; learn collabor...

Molecular artistry

at the age of 88, was a pioneer in the depiction of the structures of biological macromolecules. He was caught up in the subject 36 years ago, when Scientific American asked him to illustrate John Kendrew's December 1961 article on the first protein structure, that of sperm whale myoglobin. This was followed by illustrations for David Phillips' November 1966 Scientific American article on the f...

Easychair as a Pedagogical Tool

One of the more important aims of graduate artificial intelligence courses is to prepare graduate students to critically evaluate the current literature. The established approaches for this include either asking a student to present a paper in class, or to have the entire class read and discuss a paper. However, neither of these approaches presents incentives for student participation beyond th...

Lfg as a Pedagogical Grammar

The paper describes a presentation format of grammatical information for language teaching. c-structures and f-structures are represented as graphical annotation to a text. It is advocated that LFG-like concepts are preferable to traditional grammar rules. After an anti-grammar movement in the 1980s we can recognize today a resurgence of interest in the role of grammar in language teaching (Hed...