This book unravels the 'new reality' of national educational reforms, exploring optimal strategic directions for education and training. Offering a particular emphasis on EU-wide political guidelines, it encompasses lifelong learning across all levels, and it showcases the pivotal role of modern skills in education for reducing poverty, promoting…

Many business schools continue to use contribution in teaching, research, and service as measures of faculty performance. There has been a long tradition of thinking of faculty as making their research contribution within a specific subdiscipline. We call these teaching and discipline scholars (TDS). However a growing number of faculty who,…

Purpose: The present study was undertaken to assess academic achievement, teaching aptitude and research attitude of Indian agricultural universities' faculty, to predict indicators for successful teachers and researchers, and thereby enhancing the quality of higher agricultural education. Methodology: Five hundred faculty members were selected to…

This article is based on the empirical research involving Chinese exchange teacher candidates from Southwest University in China who participated in the "Reciprocal Learning in Teacher Education and School Education between Canada and China (RLTESECC)" project and studied at the University of Windsor. These teachers conducted classroom…

In response to the emergence of the COVID-19 virus as a pandemic, and actions taken by the Commonwealth and State Governments to contain its spread through restrictions on international and domestic travel and imposition of social distancing in public places, Australian higher education providers had to rapidly transition their teaching programs…

In the 21st century, when the universalization of higher education demands diversified students to be more involved in study and rather than in learning, the ideal of scholarship is expected to transform toward both teaching orientation and study orientation, with a focus on the teaching and study process in the classrooms with a result of being a…

In the light of viewpoints that pedagogy has been an obvious missing category in considerations of scholarly supervisory work, the author argues that the existing theory on the (more established) scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) may be successfully adapted to make it highly applicable to supervisory scholarship. Research supervision…

Its use in teacher education programs. (SP)

Since available research tends to support a positive relationship between self-concept and achievement, an important concern in education should be the social-emotional growth of the student, as well as his intellectual progress. (DM)

Provides guidelines for using classroom observation and feedback to improve teaching skills. (CM)

The study compared the effect of two training methods on pre- and post-student teachers' use of pedagogical moves in teaching. One treatment group classified moves from two videotaped lessons while the other group classified moves from the typewritten transcripts of the videotaped lessons. The frequency of moves used by the student teachers was…

Within the classroom, the teacher is an improtant social variable who controls other environmental variables. Some research on teacher effectiveness has considered personal or interaction variables. In order to study the variable of teacher test organization, a pilot study was conducted in two elementary schools in Eugene, Oregon. Each teacher was…

This paper presents a flexible, open-ended, five-stage plan based on task analysis to evolve a longitudinal competency-based teacher education (CBTE) program. Stage 1 envisions broad use of group process in evolving a parameter of generic and specialized teacher competencies within which institutional programs are independently designed to provide…