Writing Autobiographies: A Meaningful Way to Sensitize Trainee Teachers

Writing a meaningful report

In my job at a busy public hospital I go through many reports sent in together with referrals for patients to be seen. The information contained in these reports determines how timely a patient has access to tertiary care facility. All your hard work is going to be locked up in a single piece of a paper the end of any study – it will either lead to reassurance, appropriate management or sometim...

Writing Differences in Male/ Female Autobiographies: A Theoretical Perspective

The critical theories on autobiography tend to marginalize women's autobiography-writing and often have a strong subjective as well as objective bias against it. This chapter is an attempt to prove that most of the critical theories established by the male tradition are not applicable to women's life writing due to biological, socio-political as well as psycho-cultural reasons; that women's aut...

Modelling practical placement of trainee teachers to schools

Several countries successfully use centralized matching schemes for assigning students to study places or fresh graduates to their first positions. In this paper we explore the computational aspects of a possible similar scheme for assigning trainee teachers to schools. Our model is motivated by the situation characteristic for Slovak and Czech education system where each pre-service teacher sp...

School Placement of Trainee Teachers: Theory and Practice

Issues Raised by Testing Trainee Primary Teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge

For the past four years, pre-service teachers on a postgraduate primary teacher preparation course have been able to enhance their knowledge and skills of the mathematics they will be teaching by opting for additional classes. At the beginning of the course, the pre-service teachers had not really engaged with the content knowledge they required in order to teach pupils up to 11 years of age. I...