In this paper we describe how technology can be combined with face-to-face method to facilitate teaching and learning various subjects in Tanzanian secondary schools. A smart school model is proposed. The model consists of students, teacher/facilitator/digital content expert and digital content delivery vehicles that can be implemented in a learning environment in which technology plays a subor...

The article aims to analyze meanings underlying the popular concepts of a good teacher, efficient novice, expert and experienced non-expert from diachronic perspective. Criteria used across developmental stages second language acquisition/ foreign teaching in process teacher accreditation are examined, as well social contexts influencing evaluation. Reasons for teachers’ dissatisfaction with Eu...

The present paper seeks to investigate the cognitive abilities of expert EFL teachers. To this aim, the existing literature was examined and ten cognitive themes were derived which were further investigated through interviews conducted with ten academics, teacher trainers and exemplary teachers of the field in the Iranian context. The ten extracted themes were attested by interviewees’ comments...

The learning process is a process of communication and interaction between the teacher and his students on one side and between the students and each others on the other side. Interaction of the teacher with his students has a great importance in the process of learning and education. The pattern and style of this interaction is determined by the educational situation, trends and concerns, and ...

INTRODUCTION Physicians and basic scientists join medical school faculties after years of education. These individuals are then required to function in roles for which they have had little preparation. While competencies needed to perform in medical school, residency, and practice are defined, there is little guidance for faculty. METHODS An expert advisory group of the Faculty Futures Initia...

Except for the influential graduates, the content of the development core of universities needs to improve the scientific allocation of teacher resources, and the most relevant content to human resource of teacher is the salary incentive system. While the system related to performance appraisal system is the performance assessment system, so the sound and perfect performance appraisal system of...

Detection and prevention of off-task student behavior in an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) has gained a significant amount of attention in recent years. Previous work in these areas have shown some success and improvement. However, the research has largely ignored the incorporation of the expert on student behavior in the classroom: the teacher. Our research re-evaluates the subjects of off-...

We have developed a prototype authoring system for knowledge mapping that provides the capability to (a) specify map tasks (i.e., specify terms and links), (b) launch a knowledge map related to a task, (c) specify criterion or expert maps (for scoring purposes), (d) define groups of users and associate tasks to those groups, and (e) publish tasks for global access. The prototype interface is a ...

Instructional planning is an essential professional activity often used by teachers. However, some characteristics of existing university-based teacher education programs may hamper pre-service teachers’ learning of instructional planning. Thus, this study adopts the cognitive apprenticeship as a theoretical foundation to construct a web-based learning model that integrates expert teachers and ...