WHEN PATIENTS TEACH THEIR DOCTORS: A CURRICULUM FOR GERIATRIC EDUCATION

In response to aging patient demographics and a call for increased formal geriatric training in medical schools, a community volunteer geriatric mentor program, Bridging Generations, was developed to shape attitudes of medical students caring for the elderly. The geriatric mentor experience provided students with unique insight into the challenges and joys that accompany aging and encouraged the medical students to become empathetic and knowledgeable providers of care for geriatric patients.     

TRAINING TEACHERS TO TEACH FOR CREATIVITY

One of the misconceptions about creativity which prevail among teachers is the belief that it is present only in a small proportion of children. This leads to underestimation of the influence of school and society on the creative process. The creativity training program described here was designed with the main purpose of arousing teachers’ awareness of their own creative abilities and introducing basic concepts about creativity and how to nurture it into the school setting. Several studies were conducted to investigate the effects of this program on teachers’ creative thinking abilities and behaviour in the classroom. The results obtained indicated that the program was successful in developing teachers’ creative thinking and in helping them to learn the skills which are related to creative thinking and how to further it in the classroom.     

EMPLOYING SERVICE-LEARNING TO TEACH RESEARCH METHODS TO GERONTOLOGY STUDENTS

Undergraduate student interest in aging was examined in relation to age, gender, and contact with older adults. Interest in aging is conceived of along a continuum, ranging from initial interest-taking an aging course-to substantial interest as evidenced by academic and career interest. Undergraduate students who have taken an aging course (n = 189) and a stratified random comparison group (n = 261) self-assessed their interest in aging. Background information, including the frequency and duration of contact with older family and non-family individuals, was reported. Being female (p < 001) and having frequent contact with older family members (p < .01) significantly explains initial interest in aging. Initial interest in aging (i.e., taking an aging course) significantly contributes to substantial interest in aging (p < .0001) i.e., taking more aging courses, majoring in gerontology, working or planning to work with older adults. Contact with older adults positively affects undergraduate interest in aging. Interest in aging proceeds along a continuum, from preceding factors to initial interest in aging and then to substantial interest in aging. Aging courses and opportunities for interaction with older adults should be offered at the undergraduate level.     

把问答式教学改造、提升为对话式教学

目前 ,中小学课堂教学的一般模式大体可以概括为问答式 ,它是对传统讲授式的突破。但它本身在实践中也存在不少问题 ,需要加以改造和提升。提升的标的就是对话式教学。本文列举了现实问答式教学中的 1 0点缺陷 ,阐释了对话式教学应注意的 1 0点要旨。     

论语言学知识对外语教学的启示

本文通过分析比较语言学的一些基本知识 ,进而探讨语言学知识对英语教学的某些启示     

在数学教学中如何加强数学语言教育

本文从数学语言与数学符号、数学符号与数学概念的关系出发，就如何加强数学语言教育提出几点建议。     

TEACHING TO UNLEARN COMMUNITY IN ORDER TO MAKE A CLAIM TO COMMUNITY

In this essay Duck‐Joo Kwak explores a moral perfectionist approach to citizenship education, which is distinct from liberal and communitarian models. One of educational challenges to this approach is how to cultivate our students' sense of membership, which is shaped by a thick sense of the good life, while being not merely compatible with but open to the pluralist perspective. Kwak maintains that what is required for this form of membership to society or community is our future citizens' ability to engage in highly self‐reflexive philosophical reflection on the human condition; such reflection gives them the skills necessary to live up to the tension between different selves of diverse origins or within a divided self. Examining Stanley Cavell's view of political education as an exemplar of the moral perfectionist approach to citizenship education, Kwak shows how the practice of his ordinary language philosophy can be a good way to cultivate this ability by teaching us how to “speak for others” by way of “speaking for oneself.”     

学生在教育实习中存在的问题及教学对策

通过观察、分析实习生在教育实习过程中的表现,找出他们存在的问题,有针对性地在教学过程中进行教学方式的改革.     

TEACHING AGING CONTENT TO UNIVERSITY-LEVEL NON-GERONTOLOGY MAJORS

The older adult population in America will significantly increase in the future. Older adults have important needs for recreation and leisure services (). The author taught a class titled “Leisure Services for Older Adults” for over 24 years at the University of Florida. He has taught gerontology and recreation by teaching about life and living. The topics in this course ranged from life expectancy, nutrition, fitness, sports, hobbies, special events, outdoor recreation, drama, animal-assisted therapy, horticultural therapy, bibliotherapy, music, and art. Creativity and its importance in old age also were taught. Older adults visited the class as guest lecturers, and select videos were used. Students performed community service at local nursing homes.     

TEACHING INDUCTIVE THINKING TO HIGHLY ABLE CHILDREN

Two criteria were used to identify highly able kindergarten children: assessment by teachers and an IQ ≥ 115 on Raven's Progressive Matrices. In this way, 16 highly able children were found, matched pairwise according to age and IQ, and then randomly allotted to two treatment conditions. In one condition the children were trained using a program for fostering inductive thinking, whereas the children in the other condition continued their normal kindergarten activities. Based upon a new theory of inductive reasoning, the training was expected to have a positive effect on intelligence test performance. Results showed that all of the trained children outperformed their matched counterparts. It was concluded that, even with highly able children, the level of cognitive functioning can be improved, and that training of inductive thinking is an effective means to this end.     

心理健康教育在课堂教学中的运用

课堂教学是教学的重要环节,笔者从师生互动的新理念出发,结合课堂上学生的学习心理以及学生喜爱的课堂价值观,以及对成功课堂教学的反思,借用孙子兵法中的三十六计,据课堂千变万化的情况,总结出课堂教学中的三十六计。     

TEACHING THE GOD IDEA TO YOUNG CHILDREN

The typical Jewish child's Jewish education ends with his or her Bar or Bat Mitzvah which, more than likely, focused on the acquisition of practical synagogue skills. As they grow older, these young Jewish adults will more than likely learn far more about Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and other religious traditions in the course of their college and university educations whereas they will still only have a simplistic, child's understanding of their own religious tradition. As a result, most young Jews today possess only a superficial understanding of Judaism which cannot possibly compete for their spiritual loyalty or serve as a focus for future study.     

一万公里外去支教

学中文的李熠祺温柔、书卷气十足,很难想象她会选择到11808公里外的狂野非洲加纳支教。说起她的支教经历,李熠祺感触良多。这世界有那么多水?"我没想到会那么缺水。"李熠祺激动地说,"我想到了会没有自来水,但是总觉得有河流、有小溪,生活应该没有问题。"去非洲之前,李熠祺在网上查了不少攻略,自认为做好了种种准备,也设想了各种问题。但是在水的问题上,现实远远超出了她能想得到的最糟的情况。李熠祺到达加纳的时候,正是雨季,气候上,她感觉同家乡长沙的夏天差不多,不过早晚温差比较大。李熠祺解释:"虽然是雨季,但是其实没有那么多的雨,我待着的三周     

网络环境下物理实验教学面临的挑战与机遇

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