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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"learning to teach"”.
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Learning to teach in the operating room
… focus of this study is how anaesthetic trainees teach and learn to teach within the operating room (OR) and how this might be improved. Methods of study included interviews, action learning groups (ALG), and a questionnaire. The data were collected within the confines of a case study drawing on …
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Teachers learning to teach: Stories teachers tell
This qualitative study explored the stories two teachers told about why they taught as they did. Each teacher was interviewed and observed to inform the question of how teachers' beliefs, knowledge, and experience influence their actions or practice. Two scholarly paths--teacher thinking and …
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Beyond the curriculum : learning to teach primary literacy
… at its centre the relationship between student teachers' behaviour and their underlying thoughts and beliefs as they learn to teach primary English. Following Harré's definition of personal identity as an organising principle for action (Harré, 1983), it seems that student teachers' sense of …
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Learning to teach : CELTA trainees' beliefs, experiences and reflections
This study investigates the process of learning on a Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults (CELTA) course. Research on many courses in teacher education has indicated that courses have a weak impact on the beliefs of trainees, in that trainees emerged from these courses largely …
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Utilization of Bloom's Mastery Learning to Teach Introductory Accounting
This study was designed to investigate the hypotheses that a mastery learning method in teaching introductory accounting would (1) increase accounting achievement scores, (2) reduce dropout rate, and (3) cancel out the effects of previous knowledge of accounting upon subsequent performance.
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Early career physical educators' perspectives on learning to teach in urban schools
<p>The purpose of the study was to examine early career physical educators' perspectives on learning to teach in urban schools. Using occupational socialization theory (Lawson, 1983a, 1983b; Lortie, 1975) and cultural relevance theory (Flory & McCaughtry, 2011), I studied three early-career …
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Living a Curriculum of Tensions: Experiences of Learning to Teach Physical Education
This narrative inquiry explored two pre-service teachers’ experiences of learning to teach Physical Education during a 16-week internship. My interest emerged from my experiences as a student, pre-service teacher, teacher, cooperating teacher, supervising faculty, and teacher educator. I began by …
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The Use of Brain-Based Learning to Teach Interpersonal Skills to Adults
<p>Today’s employers have found that their most successful employees are those who have strong interpersonal skills as well as technical skills. Sources in both the business environment and the academic environment are creating a definition of interpersonal skills and identifying the growing need …
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The fragile and imaginative world of learning to teach: experience, identity, pedagogy
… thesis is by Published Works. Its focus is on learning to teach in Initial Teacher Education. The key concepts explored include the experience of learning to teach, the identity-making process involved and the importance of pedagogy to the process. Student teacher texts of practice make up the …
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Learning to Teach: A Case Study of Kindergarten Teachers in Hong Kong
"The ""learning-to-teach"" process of the two teachers revealed four elements (the teacher as a person, the school context, the teacher education program, and the socio-cultural context) that interacted with one another to shape their teacher knowledge. They began to learn about teaching long …
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Learning to teach and meta-learning for sample-efficient multiagent reinforcement learning
Learning optimal policies in the presence of non-stationary policies of other simultaneously learning agents is a major challenge in multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL). The difficulty is further complicated by other challenges, including the multiagent credit assignment, the high …
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Tacit Knowledge in Learning to Teach: What are the Possibilities for Student Teachers?
… a particular type of knowledge which is referred to throughout as tacit knowledge and has been identified as a personal form of knowledge, which plays a key role in the practice and professional development of teachers. In the context of initial teacher education tacit knowledge is important to …
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Using movement and kinesthetic learning to teach academics in a fourth grade classroom
<p>The purpose of this research study was to determine what happens when movement and kinesthetic learning are implemented academically in a fourth-grade regular education classroom. Kinesthetics were used to help teach a social studies unit on Europeans in New Jersey and were later infused into …
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Image of Self as Teacher Mediated by Computer Technologies in Learning to Teach
Educational researchers are just beginning to explore the perhaps unique ways that students and teachers use the Internet and other computer technologies and for what purposes. Although helping teachers use technology well may be the most important step to helping students, there are almost no hard …
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Learning to teach-teaching to learn: a case study of a student teacher
… of controversy over the role that the student teaching experience plays in the preparation and development of teachers. In order to increase our understanding of the practice of student teaching, case study methodology was utilized in this study to develop a holistic description of the practice …
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Investigating the Learning to Teach Process: Pedagogy, Innovation Adoption, Expertise Development, and Technology Integration
… three studies whose overarching purpose is to enhance our understanding about how teachers learn to teach by revealing the learning to teach process. Each of three studies revealed the learning to teach process from different perspectives. Guided by the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) …
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Socio-Cultural Influences on Face-to-Face and Electronic Mentoring of New Teachers Learning to Teach
The findings showed that the teachers highly valued the mentors' emotional support and rated their assistance on classroom management, engaging student learning and teaching methods most helpful in both face-to-face mentoring and e-mentoring. The findings also showed that new teachers focused more …
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A Qualitative Study of Elementary Teacher Education Students' Experiences With Computer Technology in Learning to Teach
… educational technology in various contexts of teacher education may illuminate the alternative meanings for both products and processes. In this vein, technology is not viewed simply as a tool or curriculum resource which may benefit teaching and learning, but also as a way of life which …
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Representing the problem of learning to teach: Student teachers’ definitions of learning, teaching and the student teacher role
Teacher education is being reevaluated in light of current understandings of the ways in which education needs to be restructured. If the teacher is to assume a role primarily as a problem solver it may require a different approach than the current, largely theoretical and fragmented approach. …
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