BACKGROUND Few medical teachers have received formal teaching education. Along with individual and organizational barriers to participation in teacher training programs, increasing numbers and altered distribution of physicians away from major teaching centers have increased the difficulty of attendance. Furthermore, it is not known if traditional faculty development formats are the optimal lea...

Farhangiyan University: Culmination of One Hundred Years of Official Teacher Training Efforts in Iran Starting with the Central Darolmo’allemin Z. Gooyaa, Ph.D.* S. Gholaamaazaad, Ph.D. **   A perusal of the documents on the history of education in Iran reveals that the official starting point in teacher training goes back to the establishment of Central Daarolmo’allemin a hundred years a...

In this paper we propose a program of pre–service and in–service teacher of Mathematics’ training in teaching with the use of computer software programs. The program consists of a) the presentation of the most characteristic theories of learning, teaching methods and models and models of using computers in the teaching–learning environment and b) the training of teachers in the use of computer ...

The purpose of this paper was to review extant literature on multicultural education in the context of teaching physical education. More specifically, the article was designed to review the literature on physical education teachers’ knowledge and skills related to teaching culturally diverse students. The findings revealed teachers' knowledge and skills in multicultural education to embrace cul...

National standards have arisen in recent years to address the process of preparing teachers to incorporate technology into education in effective and appropriate ways; both pre-service and inservice teacher education now commonly include technology components. This presentation will describe the ways in which one particular College of Education in an urban setting has chosen to include technolo...

There are no known studies that have been conducted focusing on the congruency or discrepancy of pre service agricultural education programmes in relation to secondary school agriculture teaching in Zimbabwe. The purpose of this study was therefore to make a qualitative investigation on the contribution of pre service agricultural education training programmes to the teaching of high school Agr...

Junior medical staff provides a large proportion of undergraduate student education. However, despite increasing numbers of resident-as-teacher training programs, junior doctors may still not be sufficiently prepared to teach medical students. Hence, medical schools should consider implementing formal teaching skills training into undergraduate curricula.

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