Reflective teaching methodology involves questioning one own self to bring perfection by asking the following questions: • Which teaching model am I using? • How does it apply in specific teaching situations? • How well is it working? Teacher educator should apply this theory in classroom practice, in order observe and reflects on the results so that the classroom becomes a kind of laboratory w...

This paper presents a case study of an eight-year teaching experiences junior high school teacher conducting the concept map as a mathematical teaching and learning tool to enhance her professional knowledge. Data collection for the study included the subject’s interviews, classroom observations, the subjects' teacher professional development community discussion sessions, teaching videotaping,...

In this paper, we make an important step towards the black-box machine teaching by considering the cross-space teaching setting, where the teacher and the learner use different feature representations and the teacher can not fully observe the learner’s model. In such scenario, we study how the teacher is still able to teach the learner to achieve a faster convergence rate than the traditional p...

Higher education (HE) faces the challenge of responding to an increasing diversity. In this context, more attention is being paid to teachers and teaching skills positively related to students learning. Beyond the knowledges identified as key components of an effective teacher, teachers also need to be capable of unraveling what their students think and believe, and how they accommodate the new...

A trend in agricultural education has been a shortage of graduates from preservice agricultural education programs who choose to enter the teaching profession, thus causing a deficit in the number of qualified teachers to fill vacancies. When examining preservice agricultural education programs, student teaching is often the capstone experience, during which, the student teacher works closely w...