Introduction Teaching efficacy describes the belief in a teacher's ability to promote learning and this is an invaluable asset for all teachers. This study examined contextual influences that predict teaching of first-year undergraduate PE students wishing enter teacher training programs. Method Using mixed methods design, 168 completed online questionnaire 16 these participants took part semi-...

ITE programmes have long considered practicum in schools as quintessential for teacher learning (Johnson, 1996; Richards, 1998; Derrick and Dicks, 2005; Imig and Imig, 2006; Darling-Hammond, 2006; Liston et al, 2006; Otero, 2006; Furlong et al, 2008; Black and Plowright, 2010; Melville, Bowen and Passmore, 2011). Richards and Crookes (1988) describe practicum as the ‘major opportunity for the s...

In this article, I examine the potential roles of reflective writing in ESOL teachers' learning and professional renewal. I demonstrate its importance with insights from aspects of a study on the accounts ESOL teachers construct when they do write about teaching.

This paper describes a collaborative university seminar, CollabU, involving five North-American universities in its first implementation in the Winter of 1999. In this report we emphasize the design process, the role of reflective practice, and the implications of the seminar for understanding emerging transformations in university learning, teaching, and scholarship.

This chapter explores how schools’ and universities’ innovation culture could be measured using a self-reflective questionnaire. Those are short questionnaires that used as modules in other with different overall topic. They also such for an organisation reflection. The first section details related work the focus of these questionnaires, well versions school leaders, teaching staff, students. ...

This paper analyses some aspects of the trajectory of the Argentinian physician and sociologist Juan César García (1932-1984) in the field of Latin American Social Medicine. Three dimensions constituting his basic orientations are highlighted: the elaboration of systematic and reflective social thought; a critical attitude in questioning teaching and professional practices; a commitment to the ...

introduction: the phenomenon of knowledge explosion has led teachers to feel the necessity of training students so that they become reflective thinkers. this issue is more important for nursing students who are responsible for providing care for patients.this study is a part of another study arming at exploration of nursing students’ views on reflection on practice. methods. 20 senior nursing s...

The main objective of the present paper is to develop a Reflective Teaching Model for Reading Comprehension (RTMRC) in English Language (ELT). In recent decades, concept ‘reflection’ has become widely used relation an effective teaching process various contexts, such as reflective teaching, practices, inquiry, self-observation, self-evaluation, and peer review. Although it accepted terms use, n...