Curriculum documents in Australia and elsewhere emphasize the importance of mental computation. There has been, however, little advice about developing and implementing mathematics programs that have mental computation strategies as a focus. One primary school’s response to this issue was to identify generic mental computation strategies that could be developed across the school in all grades f...

The early childhood sector in New Zealand has a long-held tradition of free play and child-led pedagogy, influencing visual arts approaches with young children. However, alongside learning through play, Zealand’s sociocultural curriculum highlights the active role teacher intentional pedagogy. This article explores practices perceptions teachers regarding mixed methods study, including nationwi...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to review and revise the undergraduate radiology curriculum at the University of British Columbia to improve radiology education to medical students and to meet the needs of a medical program with province-wide distribution. METHODS We identified the radiology content of the curriculum from the Curriculum Management and Information Tool online database...

BACKGROUND In Germany medical students should gain proficiency and specific skills in the vaccination field. Especially important is the efficient communication of scientific results about vaccinations to the community, in order to give professional counseling with a complete overview about therapeutic options. AIM OF THE PROJECT: The aim of this project is to set up a vaccination-related curri...

Although faculty have the best of intentions when a concept-based curriculum is developed and implemented, this process requires more than just designing a curriculum based on concepts. The full benefit of a concept-based curriculum occurs when faculty adopt conceptual teaching methods, where the roles and expectations of instructor and learner are different than in a traditional paradigm of te...

Across the K-16 system of primary, secondary, and post-secondary education, the need for interdisciplinary resources is widespread. Resources are dispersed, however, across disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and professional forums, as well as the “gray” or “fugitive” literature of conference papers, teaching materials, program reports, working papers, and other unpublished work. We enlarge the c...

Enhancing Developmentally Oriented Primary Care (EDOPC) is a formal didactic curriculum based on Healthy Steps materials that is designed to improve practicing pediatricians’ knowledge and confidence in developmental screening within the medical home. We modified the EDOPC program to provide a formal curriculum to pediatric residents serving children in distressed neighborhoods. Using a pre/pos...

This paper presents the experience of teaching an Artificial Intelligence course at the Faculty of Computer Science in the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain. The objective of this course is to introduce the students to this field, to prepare them to contribute to the evolution of the technology, and to qualify them to solve problems in the real world using Artificial Intelligence technolo...

BACKGROUND The Integrated Management of Newborn and Childhood Illness strategy equips health workers with essential knowledge and skills to effectively manage sick children with common neonatal and childhood diseases. Since in-service training is very demanding to achieve the desired coverage of training of health workers, pre-service training is taken as a solution. At the time of the survey, ...