A Personal Response to those Who Bash Teacher Education

A Personal Response to those Who Bash Teacher Education

Response to peer commentaries: prevention for those who can pay

Genetic testing for medically actionable genetic conditions can potentially limit the incidence and societal burden of disease if asymptomatic individuals can convert knowledge of their risk into preventive ormitigating steps.However, the generally treatmentfocusedUS insurance system complicates reimbursement for preventive interventions. In ‘Prevention for those who can pay’, I examined insura...

Formative Feedback to Improve Learning on a Teacher Education Degree using a Personal Learning Environment

This paper reports on an action research project involving a structured, formative assessment feedback process, within a personal learning environment (PLE), to address concerns about effectiveness of previous course delivery. The project ran during session 2006-07 involving the use of a series of tutor mediated self and peer assessed core tasks associated with five distinct learning milestones...

Teacher Cognition and Personal Beliefs: A Harmonious Mismatch?

Some engravings are meant to be adored and some possibly abhorred. Teacher cognition, as a meant-to-be-praised engraving, is defined by Borg (2003, p. 81) as “the unobservable cognitive dimension of teaching what teachers know, believe, and think.” This concept in teaching has recently gained momentum meaning that teachers learn so much about their teaching through the vast experience they have...

Department of medical education; A personal history

This is a brief overview of the history of formal introduction of the art andscience of education into the sphere of medical education in Shiraz. Before this introduction medical education was, and in the majority of other institutions world-wide still is, a simple transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. The students accepted their passive role because this was how they had been taught a...