Prevailing policies and practices in teaching suppress teachers’ autonomy in the classroom, leaving students subjected to scripted programs, standardized curricula, and passive rote learning (Leistyna, Lavandez, & Nelson, 2004; Sleeter, 2005). Such forms of teaching often run counter to those that support critical thinking, joy, and equity-oriented learning (Christensen, 2009; Nieto & Bode, 200...

Numerical Methods is a course that can be conducted using workshops and group discussion. This study has been implemented on undergraduate students of level two at the Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia. The Numerical Method course has been delivered to two Sections 1 and 2 with 44 and 22 students in each section, respectively. Systematic steps have been followed ...

the present study aims at exploring the relation between long term memory and two teaching methods: research-centered teaching and customary lecturing. the promotion of exploratory thinking which is provoked in the research-centered teaching method is considered to lead to hypothetical research and analytical thinking among students. two separate courses in neurophysiology at tehran university ...

introduction: although nursing students spend a large part of their learning period in the clinical environment, clinical learning has not been perceived by its nature yet. to develop an instrument to measure effective factors on clinical learning in nursing students. methods: this is a mixed methods study performed in 2 steps. first, the researchers defined “clinical learning” in nursing stude...

Focusing on teacher’s leading role, traditional teaching model has limited effect students’ self-learning ability improvement, practical promotion, and innovation consciousness cultivation. Taking international business communication course as an example, the study puts forward “student-centered” based OBE-PAD concept, forms a “three-trinity” activity system with teacher-centered process, stude...

Despite the importance of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) as a school subject in secondary education, there is a lack of an integrated ICT pedagogy that is elucidated within a broad framework of educational practice. The focus is still on technicalities and reproduction of knowledge rather than conceptual understanding of ICT. To realize the potential inherent in ICT, there is a ...

M ETHODS USED TO STUDY TEACHER THINKING have both provided insight into the cognitive aspects of teaching and resulted m new, as yet unresolved, relationships between practice and theory. Recent developments in video-analysis tools have allowed preservice teachers to analyze both their practices and thinking, providing important feedback for self-improvement as well as insights into their think...

Despite SoTL’s development as a movement, most SoTL work remains institutionally marginalized at the level of classroom inquiry. Institutional planners do not come looking for SoTL to guide their efforts to improve the institution, even when institutional initiatives are squarely centered on teaching and learning. The chasm between SoTL and the institutional radar screen is wide and rarely trav...

A sense of urgency exists among nurse educators to determine the best possible teaching strategies to create a rich, engaging learning environment for students. With the calls for transformation, innovation, and excellence in nursing education from the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, and the National League for Nursing, educators may...