This article serves to increase the effectiveness of continuous education in training highly qualified teachers technological pedagogical institutions higher education.

The quality of education provided by public schools in America has been under considerable scrutiny in recent years. In his report to the public entitled, A Nation at &&, Gardner (1983) suggested that today’s beginning teachers are not as well qualified as those who previously entered teaching. Studies by Schlecty and Vance (1981) and Weaver (1984) suggested that the academic ability and/or qua...

− A tool that could improve the quality of the assistance perceived by the visually impaired students, during a PC laboratory teaching session, is presented in this paper. The work of qualified supporting teachers could be highly improved by the use of suitable software and hardware facilities allowing for remote monitoring of students’ physical and working condition. This could highly reduce t...

Since incorporation of further education (FE) in England in 1992, much research has critiqued the performative pressures on FE teachers created by a managerialist audit culture. These critiques have demonstrated the detrimental effects of the technicised delivery of learning outcomes on more learner-centred pedagogies. However, FE policies now purport to place greater emphasis on learner-centre...

This study examined the teacher education of novice teachers of English to speakers of other languages (ESOL). A survey and followup interviews were employed to investigate novice teachers’ perceptions about four aspects of their teacher preparation: (a) degree of preparedness to teach after graduating from a teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) program, (b) preparedness afte...

A large number of special education teachers in the United States are prepared in alternative certification programs and insufficient empirical information exists regarding their knowledge of assistive technology. The purpose of this study was to conduct a preliminary investigation of alternatively licensed special education teachers’ knowledge, experience, and confidence with assistive technol...

BACKGROUND Anecdotes abound about doctors' personal illness experiences and the effect they have on their empathy and care of patients. We formally investigated the relationship between doctors' and medical students' personal illness experiences, their examination results, preparedness for clinical practice, learning and professional attitudes and behaviour towards patients. METHODS Newly-qua...