National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Health Professions Education: A Workshop
The Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education will host a 2-day workshop on the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SOTL) in Health Professions Education. This workshop will ...
Teaching - Educating, Mentoring, Facilitating: Broadly speaking, the function of teachers is to help students learn by imparting knowledge to them and by setting up a situation in which students can and will learn effectively. But teachers fill a complex set of roles, which vary from one society to another and from one educational level to another. Some of these roles are performed in the ...
Teaching - Education, Pedagogy, Mentoring: In the 19th century, systems of public education developed in order to meet the recognized need for universal literacy in an industrializing society. Teaching at this primary level was at first no more than a high-level domestic service, in which the teacher took over some of the child-rearing responsibility of the family. In some parts of the world ...
Pedagogy - Learning, Teaching, Objectives: The classification of the general objectives of teaching in terms of school subject matter is not sufficient to explain the ultimate ends of education. They include, essentially, the promotion of a well-integrated person capable of taking a responsible, active role in society. With such a purpose in mind, one may achieve more insight by choosing a ...
Pedagogy, the study of teaching methods, including the aims of education and the ways in which such goals may be achieved. It relies heavily on scientific theories of learning, and to some extent on the philosophy of education, which considers the aims and value of education from a philosophical perspective.