The American secondary school system has structural problems that are long-standing and pervasive. Too few students are engaged by their classes. Teachers can spend too little time on engrossing activities that lead to long-term learning, partly because they must spend too much time on classroom management, student preparation for high-stakes tests, and extracurricular responsibilities. The pro...

curriculum is a map that provides learning opportunities to accomplish specific and general objectives (1). course content is the concept that is taught. in fact, course content is determined based on the differences derived from the final objectives of teaching and the current state (2). the perspectives of medical education authorities can contribute to promotion of current processes and can ...

Rational drug use has increasingly received public policy attention in efforts to maintain quality health care at lower costs. Prescribing habits are developed during residency training, and education regarding rational drug use should be an integral part of the residency curricula. Considering that many medical errors in family medicine are related to incorrect medication management, there is ...

introduction. the curriculum of every program is designed to achieve its goal. the educational objectives are the reflection of the students’ theoretical knowledge and the practical skills they have learnt during this period. the collection, the presentation and the evaluation of the program depend on the educational objectives. the anesthesia educational rotation has been conducted in shiraz m...

Numerous developing countries are currently executing or planning—pouring both hope and money into—projects that introduce technology into their educational systems. This paper puts forth the assertion that developing world ICT-in-education projects will continue to disappoint until they are reconceptualized and redesigned to incorporate three transformative concepts: teachers play the key role...

In present China, bilingual teaching, as an education model, can meet an urgent demand for increasing interdisciplinary talents who have high levels of professional knowledge as well as competent foreign language abilities to deal with the ever-increasing global social, economic, scientific and technological exchanges, and international cooperation. Bilingual teaching is now developing fast in ...

Any curriculum is a construct of perceived social, political and economic needs developed at a point in time. Given that these needs are in a constant state of flux, the curriculum is subjected to periodical renewal and development processes. Gaining more visibility in the iterations of curriculum documentation is the need for Australians to be more aware of their activities impacting on the en...

This paper describes the perception of a social constructivist approach to teaching and learning among Vietnamese teachers in a Confucian heritage culture and the changes these teachers undergo through their interaction with a new science curriculum that was designed culturally appropriate. A framework of teacher professional development combining state-of-the-art knowledge on professional deve...

Teachers of primary students aged 5 – 12 years in government schools in New South Wales, Australia, are implementing curriculum planning and assessment frameworks which provide a model for the integration of the six subjects taught to primary students into one manageable teaching program. This paper discusses how 120 schools, supported by Australian Federal Government funding, are trialling the...