Findings from correlation analysis suggest that gender, academic education, online teaching experience, time devoted to online teaching, and, more relevant, all five teaching roles: social interaction, instructional design, technology use, learning assessment and learning processes support, are relevant predictors of the adoption of this conception of teaching by online instructors.
In teaching skills and knowledge, which could be considered more relevant to the teaching process, the coefficients were less than 0.3 and 0.15 respectively, offering support to the theory that relying on the student feedback alone in the evaluation of a lecturer's performance may not be valid.
Indeed, incorporating elementary textbook tasks also made the methods course instruction more relevant to PTs' teaching practices.
Which brings us back to Beane's A's, who may actually have a more relevant lesson to teach us about baseball's — and America's — economy than that David can defeat Goliath.
Teachers of color often have higher expectations for students of color, are more likely to use culturally relevant teaching practices, are more likely to confront racism in their lessons and, yes, also serve as advocates".
I started integrating more relevant topics into my teaching materials, so we discussed family planning, HIV/AIDS, sustainable agriculture, gender equality.... And, as is so often the case, I learned much more than I taught.
So they make the teaching more relevant to us, in a sense".
Whether the teaching was more relevant to the intended learning objectives is not clear but it seems plausible that teaching contextualised with perceived relevance for the student is likely to be more meaningful and more readily received.
Through pursuit of this objective, teaching also becomes more relevant.
Two major themes emerged: (i) that teaching could have been made more relevant to future practice (n = 49) and (ii) that the style and format of teaching could have been different (n = 26).
