PREPARING TEACHER CANDIDATES TO BE EFFECTIVE URBAN EDUCATORS WHOARE REFLECTIVE, INNOVATIVE, AND COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY byCHAVON L. JACKSON December, 2011Advisor: Dr. Kathleen Crawford-McKinneyMajor: Curriculum and InstructionDegree: Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to examine to what extent a teacher educationprogram prepares teacher candidates to b...

In this paper, we propose real-time communication middleware which supports data dissemination with proxy extension. To fulfill stringent QoS requirement such as timing constraint, we employ push-based data delivery approach and real-time channel. Furthermore, by making the most of connected clients, we could permit the increased number of clients and extend the scalability. Since it is also de...

The pedagogy employed in health care education must continually be questioned and expanded. Student nurses must be prepared for nursing practice that continually changes, consequently alternative concepts in nurse education must be considered. The aims were to provide student nurses with reflection skills and to evaluate the potential of studying the reflective process using visual art at a mus...

Library instruction is predicated on the assumption that transfer learning can take place, but how do librarians determine whether occurring? This study examines use of reflection as a theory within one-shot library classroom to facilitate metacognition and learning. Through analysis student work, researchers demonstrate students connect past skills with current are able assess what they know n...

BACKGROUND Past didactic pedagogy on biomedical research ethics and informed consent in our program had resulted in passive memorization of information and disengaged learning within psychiatry residents and clinical researchers. The question is how do we better motivate and engage learners within the session. Thus, we incorporated narratives into the learning environment and hypothesised that ...

The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions university students toward teaching–learning processes during COVID-19 pandemic. This research gathers inquiries made worldwide on in higher education a state alarm. proposed objectives were (a) analyse perception university; (b) assessment given by about changes that took place teaching as result COVID-19; and (c) explore resources (hardwar...

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...