Oxford University’s Internship Model of Teacher Training and Its Implications for Teacher Training Programs in Iran E.Talaa’ee, Ph.D. Fahimeh Gandomi Oxford University’s Internship Model of Teacher Training with a school-based perspective on teachers’ professional education, is considered to be a successful model resulted from the cooperation of schools ...

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...

Dental hygienists should be aware of the concept of service-learning and how it can enhance dental hygiene education. A look at national documents and other relevant historical literature will be reviewed, in addition to more recent books and articles to define service-learning. Although perceived as a new teaching strategy, service-learning has its roots in experiential education. Several defi...

This paper analyses Gen Y pre-service primary school teachers’ conceptualisations of lifelong learning. It is situated within a context of improving the provision and delivery of pre-service teacher education. This paper argues that Gen Y’s understanding of lifelong learning has been influenced by their engagements with digital technologies and that while they may have appropriated the Discours...

It is a constant challenge for teachers to keep up with the ever-changing technological advances in the world today. Current teachers often struggle with how to use technology to enhance their students’ learning experiences. Teacher education programs have a responsibility to offer both pre-service and in-service teachers strategies and methods for effectively using technology in their teaching...

BACKGROUND In 2013, the World Health Organization issued guidelines, Transforming and Scaling Up Health Professional Education and Training, to improve the quality and relevance of health professional pre-service education. Central to these guidelines was establishing and strengthening education accreditation systems. To establish what current accreditation systems were for nursing and midwifer...

Service-learning has become an important component of higher education. Integrating service-learning into dental and dental hygiene curricula will foster graduates who are better prepared to work effectively among diverse populations and to function dynamically in the health policy arena. Although the phrase is familiar to dental educators, there is not a consistent understanding of what compri...

Teacher training programs in Iran have undergone extensive investigations and modifications since the establishment of educational institutions. This interest in teacher education has emerged from the innovative approaches to teaching suggested by the trends and findings of the time. Regarding the importance of curriculum evaluation in the EFL teacher education, this study mainly focused on the...