this study focuses on the relationship between lower-intermediate level efl learners’ metacognitive awareness and accuracy in self-assessment of a speaking test. we tried to raise the learners’ metacognitive awareness through practice in goal-setting and planning. to do so, 103 lower-intermediate level students took a pretest of speaking, completed a metacognitive awareness questionnaire, and h...

The present research focuses on prospective teachers’ planning, teaching and reflection on young children’s (4 to 6 year-old) stochastic activities. The research also concentrates on the way in which prospective teachers view the activity in terms of the mathematical challenge it offers and the development of children’s stochastic ideas (Potari and Jaworski, 2002). The methodology of this resea...

The Mobile Informatics program at the Viktoria Institute has to some extent used scenario planning as a method for discussing issues related to Informatics research during one year. One important lesson is that the scenario exercises have given the participants interesting ideas and perspectives as a side effect, while some other expected advantages seem much harder to achieve.

This article demonstrates that careful planning and management can help to ensure effective learning for pre-registration students during theory and practical skills teaching. It highlights two lesson plans with intended learning outcomes, one for a didactic teaching session and the other for a psychomotor clinical skills session. The article identifies a variety of teaching and learning strate...

background and purpose: lesson plan is considered a vital component of the teacher training and successful teachers are in variably good planners and thinkers. the present study was conducted to survey the academic staff’s views about lesson plan in shiraz university of medical sciences in 2001. moreover, considering the finding of the study there was an attempt to seek the experts’ views on ho...

Developing skills in performing basic slit-lamp biomicroscopy is an important element of the ophthalmology undergraduate curriculum. As a doctor working in an ophthalmology department, I often provide slit-lamp teaching for medical students. This paper describes a lesson plan for this technique using Gagne's nine events of instruction. The presented lesson plan is a combination of Gagne's nine ...

Abstract Digital technologies have the potential to increase quality of instruction; however, using digital does not necessarily guarantee high-quality teaching. Therefore, teachers need specific professional knowledge on how use and implement technologies. Moreover, know beliefs about learning with impact their Usually, are assessed via self-report measures in a subject-unspecific isolated man...