In this ever changing competitive global society, universities in China strive to achieve quality in the programs, courses, qualifications and services offered to their clients. This paper debunks that myth and argues that micro-teaching can be used as a tool to ensure quality of pre-service English teachers. The paper reviews relevant literature to support the experiences of the author and exp...

Research on how people learn shows that teaching using active learning is more effective than just lecturing. We outline four concrete ways instructors can begin to apply active learning in their teaching: backward instruction design; expecting students to learn more than facts; posing "messy" problems for students to solve; and expecting students to talk, write, and collaborate. Each tactic is...

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty are crucial to the vitality of engineering education effectiveness future generations engineers. Teaching satisfaction has been identified as an important predictor teaching performance retention. University support for well from department chair have predictors satisfaction. Further, previous investigations using self-determination theory (SDT)...

In the first part of this work, a brief literature review is made on the issue of what is meant by “successful teaching experience”. Research has provided evidence for specific components that influence “success” namely beliefs for self-efficacy, feedback, possibility for student self-regulation and active participation, possibility for inquiry, collaboration, differentiation in ways of student...

the present quasi-experimental study investigated the effect of using lesson study as an example of collaborative research in the classroom on the teaching motivation and self-efficacy of physical education teachers. for data collection, descriptive, case study, and qualitative methods were applied. the statistical population consisted of all physical education teachers in piranshahr city. 20 s...

BACKGROUND Hospitalists provide much of the clinical teaching in internal medicine, yet formative feedback to improve their teaching is rare. METHODS We developed a peer observation, assessment, and feedback program to improve attending hospitalist teaching. Participants were trained to identify 10 optimal teaching behaviors using a structured observation tool that was developed from the vali...

Transvenous lead extraction is becoming popular in Japan since the approval of laser extraction system in 2010. The laser system seems to be the standard method used by most physicians, owing to its efficacy and ease of handling. The efficacy and safety of this technology has been well proven in many studies and the data suggest that it can be used for Japanese patients safely. However, lead ex...

BACKGROUND Pest eradication strategies that use pesticides require application methods that have the lowest environmental and human health impact while maintaining the highest probability of success. This is highly important when eradication takes place in sensitive areas, such as urban or riparian zones. A new aerial application method, the spot-gun, was developed to provide good pesticide cov...