This paper presents an analysis of instructional development for space geometry lessons intended educational institutions in elementary schools, especially grade 6 Indonesia. The selected lesson covers the topic surface area a triangular prism. Learning is carried out by conducting needs and learner as well specific task lesson. Performance objectives learning outcomes are discussed detail thei...

BACKGROUND Although nationally recognized learning objectives for undergraduate surgical education exist, the extent to which Canadian medical schools follow these guidelines has never been established. METHODS We distributed a survey to all program directors and clinical-teaching-unit coordinators for undergraduate surgery at Canada's 16 medical schools, and subsequently assessed the perceiv...

States and school districts are exploring alternatives to state tests for measuring teachers’ contributions to student learning. One approach applies statistical valueadded methods to alternative student assessments such as commercially available tests and end-ofcourse tests. The evidence suggests that these methods can reliably distinguish among teachers. A second approach requires teachers to...

This article addresses the traditional instructional leadership (characterized with Tyler’s four questions; teachers prescribe a curriculum; learners assume a submissive role of following instructors) in comparison with the andragogical or innovative instructional leadership. As more and more scholars cast their doubt on this particular instructional mode (traditional instructional leadership),...

this study investigated the role of the principal in managing teaching and learning. it examined how and to whom principals distributed the management of teaching and learning.  it was found that participants thought principals could improve school effectiveness most by engaging in activities that develop a good climate and ensure appropriate resources are available for instruction. there is a ...

In this paper we account for how a 5 grade teacher changes in how she attends and responds to student thinking in terms of differences in her framing of the instructional situation. Coordinating verbal (i.e. speech, voice inflection, and word emphasis) and non-verbal (i.e. body orientation, eye gaze, and gesturing) behavioral data, we characterize three patterns that reappeared with stability t...

Educational research and development into e-learning mainly focuses on the inclusion of new technological features without taking into account psycho-pedagogical concerns that are likely to improve a learner's cognitive process in this new educational category. This paper presents an instructional model that combines objectivist and constructivist learning theories. The model is based on the co...