Can We Innovate Teacher Education Using Business Reflective Learning Methods?

Reflective teaching pedagogy as innovative approach in teacher education through open and distance learning

Reflective teaching methodology involves questioning one own self to bring perfection by asking the following questions: • Which teaching model am I using? • How does it apply in specific teaching situations? • How well is it working? Teacher educator should apply this theory in classroom practice, in order observe and reflects on the results so that the classroom becomes a kind of laboratory w...

Critiacal Reflective Practice and Workplace Learning : Impediments and Possibilities in Teacher Education

Professional practica are an essential part of teacher education and other professional education programs, but university staff often express concern that prac experiences are fundamentally conservative, emphasising preparation for the status quo rather than for what might be. In recent years other forms of workplace-based university learning have been devised, where staff have sought to build...

OVIDE-project: Methods of using Online Video in Teacher Education

In the Ovide project, a Socrates/Minerva project granted by the European Union, ten universities from eight European countries work together to examine current pedagogy of online video use in teacher education. Within the OVIDE project the members have created some 20 case studies which all exemplify different approaches to the use of online videos. Each case study provides information for teac...

Using mobile phones to enhance teacher learning in environmental education

Reflective learning in community-based dental education.

Learners gain additional value from community-based education when they are guided through a reflective process. The purpose of this article is to describe how structured reflection assignments and methods are incorporated in the University of North Carolina School of Dentistry's community-based DISC (Dentistry in Service to Communities) program. The following strategies are described as ways t...