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Beginning teacher standards for physical education: Promoting a democratic ideal?

The framing of teaching standards within restrictive managerial or collaborative democratic ideologies impacts significantly on initial teacher education. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore teacher educators’ (n = 13) perspectives on beginning ...

Elsevier2012

Teacher educators’ perspectives on the implementation of beginning teacher standards for physical education in Ireland: developing and regulating the profession?

Roland John Tormey

The physical education teacher education community in Ireland has developed Beginning Teacher Standards for Physical Education (BTSfPE) at the post-primary (secondary) level. This study explored teacher educators’ perspectives on how the BTSfPE could be im ...

2012

Involving and training public school teachers in using robotics for education

Francesco Mondada, Michael Bonani, Fanny Riedo, Mariza Freire

The introduction of technology in the public school teaching process could help increasing the weak motivation we can observe toward engineering studies. To achieve this goal, one main obstacle is motivating public school teachers to use technological tool ...

2012

How emotionally intelligent are pre-service teachers?

Roland John Tormey

Although there is evidence that teacher emotional intelligence is important for pupil adjustment and learning and for teachers in managing the emotional demands of their work, little is known about the levels of emotional skill of teachers and beginning te ...

Elsevier2012

Assessing Emotional Intelligence and Its Impact in Caring Professions: The Value of a Mixed-Methods Approach in Emotional Intelligence Work with Teachers

Roland John Tormey

A considerable body of research into the impact of having emotional intelligence has attracted attention to the concept. The strength of this research lies in the link between scores on emotional intelligence tests and outcome measures such as performance ...

InTech2012

Citation and bibliography made easy with Zotero

Raphaël Grolimund

Zotero is a reference manager that makes it easy and quick to collect, manage and share papers as well as cite while writing. Zotero is dedicated to people who teach, publish or write. Among others, these are students, teachers and researchers. ...

2012

From LMS to PLE: a Step Forward through OpenSocial Apps in Moodle

Denis Gillet, Evgeny Bogdanov

Bringing flexibility and extensibility into Learning Management Systems) is crucial because it gives teachers and students a free choice of technologies and educational materials they want to use for their courses. The paper presents a solution via enablin ...

2012

Teaching Global Perspectives: Introducing Student Teachers to Development Education

Development Education represents a new vision of education that empowers the learner to assume responsibility for creating a more just and sustainable world. The Ubuntu Network specifically explores opportunities for its integration into post primary initi ...

Liffey Press2011

Teacher education, emotional competencies and development education

Roland John Tormey

Emotion is now been granted a more prominent position in areas such as the study of moral or pro-social behaviour (Hoffman, 2001). Its importance is also increasingly being recognised in development education (Tormey, 2005). This research looks at the role ...

2010

Technology for Classroom Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Patrick Jermann

We use different criteria to judge teaching methods and learning environments as researchers and teachers. As researchers, we tend to rely on learning gains measured in controlled conditions. As teacher, the skilled management of classroom constraints resu ...

Springer Science+Business Media2010

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