This paper reports on a research project in which a group of teachers in a pre-school teacher education programme based at a “satellite” study centre in a distant rural area used a student-centred learning approach as a means to bridge the distance in the social relationship. A qualitative approach was taken that aimed to develop a greater understanding of the teacher-student relationship throu...

erTigkertelIa Bruce W. The Student -Centered Curriculum: A Concept in Curriculum Innovation. Rutgers. The State Univ., New Brunswick. N.J. Graduate School of Education. Spans Agency-Office of Education (DHEW). Washington. D.C. Bureau of Research. Report No !mid -R -2 Bureau No-BR -8.0334 Pub Date Mar 69 Grant -OM -0.9 -080334 -3736 Note -21p. FORS Price MF -5025 HC-S1.15 Descriptors *Behavioral...

This study reports on factors that limit the participation of blind and partially sighted learners in mathematics and science education. Since the teacher, still remains one of the most crucial factors in any education system, the researcher deemed it important to investigate the role of the teacher as understood by a blind technician in promoting the participation of blind and partially sighte...

The purpose of this study was to create an evaluating model to measure innovation of the educational reform in a High School Emerging Technology Curriculum in Taiwan. A CIPP model was served as a foundation for both formative and summative evaluations. The core concept is based upon innovation is the target of curriculum reform. In Taiwan, science educators are seeking ways of copying emerging ...

The oral communication course for English majors at the National University of Malaysia includes testing designed by faculty and coordinated with the curriculum. This practice iz based on the ideas that a te ther who has been actively involved in curriculum design is in a good position to design a test for that curriculum, and that teacher-made tests have a beneficial backwash effect on student...

We propose Teacher-Student Curriculum Learning (TSCL), a framework for automatic curriculum learning, where the Student tries to learn a complex task and the Teacher automatically chooses subtasks from a given set for the Student to train on. We describe a family of Teacher algorithms that rely on the intuition that the Student should practice more those tasks on which it makes the fastest prog...

This article presents the Action – Reflection – Modelling (ARM) pedagogical approach for teacher education developed during a Malaysia-UK collaborative project to construct a Bachelor of Education (Honours) degree programme in Primary Mathematics, with English and Health and Physical Education as minor subjects. The degree programme was written collaboratively by teacher educators in two Instit...

As the importance of a sound technological education for learners in their teenage years of schooling becomes accepted at a global level, there is increasing interest and belief in the need to start this education at an earlier age, possibly as soon as children begin formal schooling or even nursery school or kindergarten. Some teachers have warmly welcomed the challenge of introducing technolo...