Because medical education has historically used the curriculum and its related educational components as a laboratory for studying the teaching and learning process, ultimately with the goal of improving professional competency, the distinction between improvement and research becomes significant [ 4].
MS. BOUNDY: Money is obviously relevant to capacity building -- for example, improving professional development for teachers.
This program considers improving professional practice as one of its fundamental goals.
These results suggest that the goal of improving professional judgment can be achieved with an underlying change to the way auditors think.
As the lead for improving professional practice in CSWPS in Cornwall, I am lucky to have many colleagues to help achieve this aim.
I conclude that increasing dimensions of agency may be a promising lever for improving professional learning at both an individual and system level.
Federal education officials said the program would seek to bring together state and district officials, union leaders, teachers and other educators to address a range of issues, among them tightening tenure rules, increasing salaries and improving professional development.
Recipients are selected on the basis of improving professional development; raising instructional and institutional standards; encouraging scholarship and creativity; providing a public service, and generally further the established goals of IEEE-HKN.
As American educators try to change the culture of teaching from a solo enterprise with the teacher as information disseminator to a more collaborative and reflective process, they are looking to Japan for ideas on improving professional development opportunities for teachers.
The chapters present cutting edge examples of multiple ways arts-based interventions underpin learning arenas for expanding leadership and improving professional practice.
This trend continued into 2014 as the edtech industry reached $1.36 billion, with the largest sums going toward tech companies focused on improving professional, language and math skills.
