The Federal University of São Paulo, Baixada Santista Campus was founded in 2006 with five degree-granting programs in physical education, physiotherapy, nutrition, psychology, and occupational therapy. The guiding principle behind the programs' educational mission was centered on the development of health care professionals capable of working in…

The General Medical Council states that United Kingdom graduates must function effectively as educators. There is a growing body of evidence showing that medical students can be included as teachers within a medical curriculum. Our aim was to design and implement a near-peer-led teaching program in an undergraduate medical curriculum and assess…

As the first phase of a three-phase process to implement a CBTE (Competency Based Teacher Education) program in vocational industrial teacher education at the Pennsylvania State University, a study was undertaken to identify and verify teaching competencies for industrial education teacher education. After developing a list of 173 competencies, a…

This learning module, one in a series of 127 performance-based teacher education learning packages focusing upon specific professional competencies of vocational teachers, deals with assessing student affective (attitudinal) performance. Addressed in the individual learning experiences are the following topics: understanding the rationale and…

This seventh in a series of nine learning modules on instructional management is designed to assist secondary and postsecondary vocational teachers in identifying and using classroom procedures to develop self-discipline in students, and in developing the type of environment which allows learning to take place. The terminal objective for the…