INTRODUCING PROFESSIONAL TERMINOLOGY IN MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION TEACHER PROGRAMMES: REASONING AND PRACTICE

Digital Portfolios in Teacher Education: Blending Professional Standards, Assessment, Technology, and Reflective Practice

Digital portfolios can be powerful tools for facilitating reflective practice when based on sound developmental principles and adequately supported by mentoring, peer review, and other effective practices. This article explores the use of the digital portfolio to promote reflection by practitioners and suggests strategies that can be employed by teacher educators to maximize the benefits of the...

Theorising Practice in Initial Teacher Education

Individualisation in the Professional Preparation of the Physical Education Teacher

The present concept of the education process demands a greater orientation to each pupil. Demands are focused on the greater involvement of pupils in diagnostics, autodiagnostics, evaluation, self-evaluation and mutual evaluation, on new forms of co-operation, creativity and individualisation, on newly framed inductive learning procedures and integrative instruction including co-educational ins...

Multilingual Terminology Extraction and Validation

This paper presents the automatic terminology extraction approach developed within project LIQUID. This project aims at developing a cost-effective solution for the problem of cross-language access to multilingual text databases in technical and scientific domains. Cross-Language Information Retrieval faces a major challenge: organizing unstructured textual information according to its contents...

Improving Mathematics Teacher Practice and Student Learning through Professional Development

We propose to study how to provide, on a large scale, the professional development and continuing support teachers need to improve student achievement in mathematics. Over five years of a longitudinal study, we will examine how the use of specific research-based instructional strategies in the classroom— supported by professional development and highly rated curriculum materials—relate to lasti...