What constitutes becoming experienced in teaching and learning?

What Constitutes a Contract?

Expertise, Expert Teaching and Experienced Teachers’ Knowledge of Learning Theory

Through the inception of the Chartered Teacher Programme in Scotland there is the intention that continuing professional development can enable teachers to become increasingly effective in promoting learning in the classroom (Scottish Executive, aim since what is meant by learning (and its promotion) is not contextualised either in learning in any coherent way. The implications of such a ‘non-l...

Learning curve for coronary CT angiography: what constitutes sufficient training?

PURPOSE To prospectively evaluate the effect of experience with coronary computed tomographic (CT) angiography on the capability to detect coronary stenoses of 50% or more. MATERIALS AND METHODS The institutional review board approved the study protocol. All patients gave consent to undergo CT angiography before conventional coronary angiography after being informed of the additional radiatio...

The Influence of the Human Becoming Theory on Teaching - Learning

As a nursing educator, human becoming theory was used to enhance my understanding of my experience with students in Hangzhou, China. I describe my initial tension in living simultaneously the uncertainty and the certainty when I was faced with a strange but yet familiar teaching situation. The tension has however enabled me to cross from a traditional approach to a human becoming teaching-learn...

Learning and teaching in dermatology

Explosion of medical information, increase in the speed of communications and the pressure of WHO on observing scientific rules, oblige dermatologists to have a good education and to use more effective education principles. A brief review on the publications on learning principles reveals only a small role for dermatologists. The minimum benefits of these principles are to acquire a scientific ...