This study is framed in the context of pre-service masters degrees teaching languages (Spanish as a foreign language + Portuguese mother tongue, and Spanish English languages) given at Faculty Arts Humanities University Porto. training preparation for lower upper secondary education Portugal.During second year these degrees, trainees conduct practicum schools prepare reflective portfolio relate...

Clinical practicums are often limited by a lack of meaningful communication between nursing students and registered nurses (RNs). This pilot study evaluated the utility of the Clinical Progression Portfolio (CPP) to enable students to learn how to initiate engagement with their RNs and to develop their capacity as students to learn. The study employed a descriptive survey design, with a conveni...

A cornerstone of professional education is the practicum, "a setting designed for the task of learning a practice. In a context that approximates a practice world, students learn. . . by undertaking projects that simulate and simplify practice; or they take on real-world projects under close supervision" (Schön 1987, 37). In the healthcare professions, one of the ways the practicum is reified i...

The Community-Oriented Public Health Practice (COPHP) program, a 2-year in-residence MPH degree program in the University of Washington School of Public Health, has partnered with Public Health-Seattle & King County (PHSKC) since 2002 to create a mutually beneficial set of programs to improve teaching and address community-based public health problems in a practice setting. The COPHP program us...

The present study is aimed at investigating the relationship among Iranian EFL teachers’ reflective teaching, reflective thinking and classroom management ability. To this purpose, 102 male and female EFL teachers, aged between 25 and 40, with different academic background who were teaching at different levels, were chosen to fill in three questionnaires on reflective thinking, reflective teach...

this study examined the effects of cooperative learning techniques (clt) on vocabulary achievement of reflective/impulsive iranian efl learners. from among 130 students at fajr institute in dehdasht, kohkiloyeh and boyer ahmad province, iran, 90 participants were selected based on their performance on the oxford placement test (opt). the participants were then divided into two experimental grou...

This article aims to study the dynamic change of teachers’ beliefs among pre-service teachers. A longitudinal design was adopted investigate English language teaching (ELT) belief after a 3-month practicum by administering pretest and posttest questionnaires, semistructured interviews, reflective journals. Repeated measures paired sample t-test analyses showed significant differences across dif...

Service-learning is an educational practice that promotes learning processes of eclectic and thorough contents, competences values through a community service its critical review with the help reflective tools. Its implementation necessary, particularly in teacher training, order to foster change education system progress towards sustainability. In this paper we describe analyse three projects ...