Wendy Robinson University if Exeter 19 Policy, theory and practice in initial teacher education in England has a long history if turbulence. This paper riflects upon this history and examines those key aspects if initial teacher education which have shaped pas~ present and foture developments. Following a brig historical overview if key developments in the field, the issue if where best to trai...

background: in-service education is one of the best and major methods to provide, train and improve the performance of the staffs. this study aims to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the virtual trainings from the staffs' perspective of mashhad university of medical sciences. methods: this is a cross-sectional study conducted among staffs from different parts of the therapy depart...

Professor John M. Sayles, pr incipal of Milne High school, wi l l load a round table discussion at the Eighth Annual Junior High school conference, under the auspices of the school of education at New York university, March 18 and 1°. The theme of the conference wil l he "The New Age Challenges Teaching Methods;" the topic of Professor Sayles' round table wil l he " Improving Methods through Te...

Teacher training programs should provide evidence that they are preparing teacher trainees for their teaching career. However, the literature contains few evaluation reports of the layout of the pre-service EFL teacher training program in Iranian EFL context, a gap which this study tries to fill. The participants of the study were high school EFL teachers (n = 346), teacher trainees (n = 97) an...

Current research points towards preschool and qualitative pedagogical relationships as being determined and formed by a close link between care and teaching. An Early Childhood Education should lead not only towards the acquisition of knowledge within specific areas but should also enhance the personal development of student teachers. New and creative competences need to be developed to cope wi...

Training pre-service teachers requires, among other things, content knowledge, pedagogical skills and pedagogical content knowledge. Teacher preparation programs have little, if any spare time to add more courses/activities to their program. However, I argue in this paper that we, as educators, must enhance the amount of physics education research in our pre-service physics teacher training pro...

introduction: due to the vital role of nurses and the effects of scientific advances on nursing care, providing high quality nursing services is not possible without participating in the in-service training programs and becoming familiar with the new techniques. this study aimed to determine the motivational factors influencing the participation in the in-service training courses among nurses w...

abstract background: there are several evaluation models that can be used to evaluate the effect of in‑service training; one of them is the kirkpatrick model. the aim of the present study is to assess the in-service training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) for nurses based on the kirkpatrick’s model. materials and methods: this study is a cross‑sectional study based on the kirkpatrick’s ...