Professional Competencies of Health and Fitness Instructors

Teachers’ Professional Competencies: Past, Present, and Future

Teachers’ Professional Competencies: Past, Present, and Future   M. Rezaai, Ph.D.*   The purpose of this paper is to review the expected professional competencies throughout the history of teacher training in Iran. As such it covers both the past, covering the period from teacher training inception in 1918 to the Islamic revolution in 1979; and the present, since the revolution. Of course t...

Pelvic floor fitness using lay instructors.

OBJECTIVE Typically, pelvic muscle training for women with pelvic floor disorders is provided by medical personnel. We sought to evaluate the feasibility and symptom improvement after a nonmedical pelvic muscle training class in a prospective cohort. METHODS Study participants volunteered to participate in an 11-week pelvic fitness and education class taught by a lay instructor at five fitnes...

The need for teaching competencies in clinical instructors.

Leveling components of professional competencies of Iranian Premier League

The purpose of this research was to level the relationships of professional competencies of Iranian football referees. The statistical population of this study included 13 experts, referees, experts, and faculty members who were purposefully selected. For the level of competency components of football referees, the interpretative structural modeling technique (ISM) was used by MATLAB software. ...

Towards a Task-Based Assessment of Professional Competencies

Performance assessment is exceedingly considered a key concept in teacher education programs worldwide. Accordingly, in Iran, a national assessment system was proposed by Farhangian University to assess the professional competencies of its ELT graduates. The concerns regarding the validity and authenticity of traditional measures of teachers' competencies have motivated us to devise a localized...