INTRODUCTION Limited data illuminate how resident doctors view their important roles as teachers, supervisors and role models. Analysing qualitative data about resident teachers' self-perceptions can offer helpful insights. METHODS One year after a randomised trial of a residents-as-teachers curriculum at a university medical centre, we invited its 23 resident participants to participate in s...

This paper reviews the literature concerning the personal characteristics, professional characteristics, and teaching methods or styles of effective teachers of gifted students. The review is divided into three sections. First, a brief historical overview of gifted education since ancient times is offered. The next section looks at the opinions expressed by experts in the field of gifted educat...

Teacher enthusiasm is attracting growing attention in educational and learner psychology research. There evidence that teacher contagious class positively affects student emotions. Their fundamental role shaping engagement has also been well documented. However, the links – between emotions, emotions remain underexplored instructed second language acquisition. The present study adopted a mixed-...

Privacy studies may be seen by some teacher educators as being ‘anti-technology’ in their character, with the potential to dim the enthusiasm of future teachers for new technological initiatives. However, privacy is taking on new significance in an age of the Internet and advanced information technologies, as the examples and sources outlined in this article demonstrate. Privacy issues have a s...

With the rapid development of information technology, project management has gained more and more attention recently. Based on CDIO, this paper proposes some teaching reform ideas for software project management curriculum. We first change from Teacher-centered classroom to Student-centered and adopt project-driven, scenario animation show, teaching rhythms, case study and team work practice to...

S hreeram Abhyankar was an influential mathematician and an inspiring teacher. His infectious enthusiasm for research and steadfast devotion to teaching have been truly inspirational not only for us, his students, but for all who came in contact with him. His attractive and accessible lectures, delivered in his inimitable style, presented their mathematical content with such clarity that the au...