Credit Courses on University Teaching for Graduate Students in Canadian Universities

the effect of lexically based language teaching (lblt) on vocabulary learning among iranian pre-university students

هدف پژوهش حاضر بررسی تاثیر روش تدریس واژگانی (واژه-محور) بر یادگیری لغات در بین دانش آموزان دوره پیش دانشگاهی است. بدین منظور دو گروه از دانش آموزان دوره پیش دانشگاهی (شصت نفر) که در سال تحصیلی 1389 در شهرستان نور آباد استان لرستان مشغول به تحصیل بودند انتخاب شده و به صورت قراردادی گروه آزمایش و گواه در نظر گرفته شدند. در ابتدا به منظور اطمینان یافتن از میزان همگن بودن دو گروه از دانش واژگان، آ...

Graduate Students' Perspectives on Effective Teaching

This study employed data collected over an 8-year period in which graduate students' perspectives on effective teaching were collected during a class exercise. The data were organized into three categories: (a) teaching competence (knowledge of content and teaching), (b) relationships with students (having the best interests of students at heart), and (c) teacher attitudes (with respect to teac...

Computational Tools for Teaching Graduate Courses in Geotechnical Engineering

1 Pedro Lamas, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, [email protected] Abstract The Bologna Process assigns new challenges in higher education and in geotechnical engineering courses in particular. The ECTS (European Credit Transfer System), based on the student workload required to achieve the objectives of a program study, implies reduction of contact hours between tea...

Communication courses in Canadian graduate programs in health promotion.

Debate: a tool for teaching graduate students.

The introduction of a formal debate was used to stimulate discussion of neuroscience in our graduate program. The debate had several advantages for encouraging student participation. Several students actively participated in the debate: four debaters and five judges. Faculty coaches helped provide background knowledge and guidance before the debate but were not debaters. Faculty directed the ju...