Giftedness refers to proficient distinctive intelligent knowledgeable abilities, due high IQ which possess talent, excellent performance abilities and skill in diverse field of learning. The gifted children’s style learning is quite different as they need special academic, scientific support input since are characterized by actively metacognitive thinking skills strategies. Due the complexities...

The advent of Web technology has enabled new ways in which groups of people may interact, leading to the development of online communities. In an academic environment these virtual communities can facilitate collaboration and provide new ways for educators to communicate and disseminate their ideas and practices. A website designed to support a community of educators interested in scholarship a...

An increasing number of healthcare educators are using mobile learning applications, such as educational podcasts, in order to facilitate and enhance students’ learning. Ubiquitous mobile technologies are becoming more important in healthcare training because of the scarcity of educators and the increase in the number of firstand second-degree students enrolling in schools of nursing. Academic ...

PURPOSE Despite numerous calls for reform over several decades, medical educators have been unable to address many significant challenges. Potentially, employing new metaphors and looking at the teaching and learning of medicine in a new way will facilitate the development of creative solutions. MAIN FINDINGS In this paper we propose the metaphor of medicine as a performing art. Building on t...

This research discusses about the Management of Integrated Islamic Elementary School Educators in Palangka Raya. The method used is a qualitative descriptive which aims at describing how Raya is. data validity test uses source and triangulation. result shows that implementation has been well applied. It planning needs educators before new academic year, then conducting recruitment using opened-...

Emergency medicine (EM) educators have many masters. These include our hospital administrations who expect efficient patient care reflecting the priorities of safety and quality,1,2 the accreditation council for graduate medical education which has introduced a new competency-based standard by which our learners must be educated3,4 and last but not least, our learners that are using new educati...

BACKGROUND Clinician educators face barriers to scholarship including lack of time, insufficient skills, and access to mentoring. An urban department of family medicine implemented a federally funded Scholars Program to increase the participants' perceived confidence, knowledge and skills to conduct educational research. METHOD A part-time faculty development model provided modest protected t...

Critics of collaborative learning such as Greg Myers argue that educators might let their enthusiasm for collaborative learning lea3 them to accepting social construction of knowledge as a good thing in itself. It is important, however, to distinguish between the use of specific collaborative learning activities--such as peer response groups or collective brainstorming--and collaborative learni...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine postgraduate programmes in Kenya are examining the benefits of Community-Oriented Primary Care (COPC) curriculum, as a method to train residents in population-based approaches to health care delivery. Whilst COPC is an established part of family medicine training in the United States, little is known about its application in Kenya. We sought to conduct ...