This is a brief overview of the history of formal introduction of the art andscience of education into the sphere of medical education in Shiraz. Before this introduction medical education was, and in the majority of other institutions world-wide still is, a simple transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. The students accepted their passive role because this was how they had been taught a...

A trend in agricultural education has been a shortage of graduates from preservice agricultural education programs who choose to enter the teaching profession, thus causing a deficit in the number of qualified teachers to fill vacancies. When examining preservice agricultural education programs, student teaching is often the capstone experience, during which, the student teacher works closely w...

Language acquisition especially in human infants is a problem that intrigues the layman and baffles the expert. This article takes a computational viewpoint toward the problem and investigates the problem of learnability of languages. We look at some results that show that learning is impossible even under very weak criterion. We next look at a framework in which learning takes place with a hel...

While expert teachers remain a frequent focus of research in education, to date there have been very few attempts conduct systematic reviews this literature. This paper presents the findings first metasummary on teacher expertise K12 education (primary/elementary and secondary levels), based analysis 106 empirical studies from 16 countries involving 1124 identified as experts. The inductively-d...

This paper describes a computer-based training method in which novice learners view video clips of authentic performance situations and annotate the video clips by describing critical incidents that they observe in the video clips and noting the time code where the incident occurs. Experts’ observations about the same video clips are offered to learners as expert-model feedback. Learners work t...

Classroom observation research and research on teacher expertise are similar in their reliance on observational data with high-inference procedure to assess the quality of instruction. Expertise research usually uses low-inference measures like eye tracking to identify qualitative difference between expert and novice behaviors and cognition. In this study, we used mobile eye-tracking technology...

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...

The creation of professional learning communities (PLCs) in schools and the designation of instructional coaching positions have become popular strategies to support teacher learning and instructional improvement. PLCs and coaching initiatives share a similar theory of action: that providing teachers with opportunities to interact with peers and/or expert coaches will enable them to learn and i...