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Professional development
About: Professional development is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 81108 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1316681 citations.
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TL;DR: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education decided to specify six general competencies of graduate medical education: patient care; medical knowledge; practice-based learning and improvement; professionalism; interpersonal skills and communication; and systems-based practice.
Abstract: Many have recommended changing the professional development of physicians Concluding that further educational process specification was inadequate, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) decided to specify six general competencies of graduate medical education (GME): patient care; medical knowledge; practice-based learning and improvement; professionalism; interpersonal skills and communication; and systems-based practice Coupling them with a developmental view of professional knowledge and skill acquisition, the ACGME invited further specification and development of desired learning from the extended medical specialty community, including the specialty boards This collaborative process offers a model of the role accrediting agencies can play in fostering workforce developmental change
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TL;DR: The authors investigated how teacher beliefs were related to technology integration practices and found that teachers' beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning, beliefs about effective ways of teaching, and technology integration were related with each other.
625 citations
TL;DR: In recent years, reflective, collaborative, inquiry-oriented approaches to supervision of teachers and teacher development have been discussed in the professional literature as discussed by the authors, however, few published studies have focused on teacher development.
Abstract: In recent years, reflective, collaborative, inquiry-oriented approaches to supervision of teachers and teacher development have been discussed in the professional literature. However, few published...
622 citations
TL;DR: The authors raised some questions about the meaning and place of practical reflection in teaching and about the relation between knowledge and action in teaching, the kind of teaching that is educational or pedagogical.
Abstract: Schon (1987) has suggested that professional education undervalues practical knowledge and grants privileged status to intellectual scientific and rational knowledge forms that may only be marginally relevant to practical acting. This is not just an issue of sociology of knowledge. The literature of teaching and teacher education has shown that professional practices of educating cannot be properly understood unless we are willing to conceive of practical knowledge and reflective practice quite differently. It is for this reason that I would like to raise some questions about the meaning and place of practical reflection in teaching and about the relation between knowledge and action in teaching, the kind of teaching that is educational or pedagogical.
619 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the implementation and development of ICT in the education sector, challenging and developing the traditional learning environment whilst introducing new educational tools including e-learning.
Abstract: In this article, we focus on the implementation and development of ICT in the education sector, challenging and developing the traditional learning environment whilst introducing new educational tools including e-learning. The paper investigates ICT as a tool empowering and developing learners lifelong learning opportunities. It defines a model of ICT development and identifies three core development stages through which basic skills, ICT skills, and lifelong learning skills are acquired. The paper further gives a description of the ICT impact on labour and education markets, the current state of development of ICT at school in EU and the needs for further investment in this area. The findings of this paper suggest that such investment is likely to have positive effects when geared towards blended learning approaches built on comprehensive policy ...
617 citations