Got Skills?

Health professional education is designed to help learners gain the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed for practice. There has been extensive reform in health professional curriculums to emphasize the teaching, development, and assessment of clinical skills. As medical education continues to evolve due to changes in healthcare, and with the ever-increasing growth of technology, it is important to ensure that health professional students are ready to practice successfully. Many curriculums have incorporated clinical skills laboratories to provide learners a safe and protected environment to practice those skills necessary for their profession. Thus, students must acquire, maintain, and enhance their clinical skills techniques as they progress in their education and be properly assessed before they approach real patients. The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic required educational transition to a remote platform, providing both challenges and opportunities for health education. This chapter reviews how remote skills-based courses can teach and assess clinical skills effectively.

The Implementation of Class Action Research (CAR) by Japanese Language Teachers in Indonesia

This study aims to determine the implementation of Classroom Action Research (CAR) conducted by Japanese language teachers in Indonesia at this time. A qualitative descriptive research method was used in this study to describe the questionnaire result from 193 participants in the first session of webinar, and 203 participants in the second session. Based on the results of the questionnaire, it was found that most of the participants had never done CAR at all or had never done CAR in a structured manner. Participants who have done CAR mostly use it for promotion and only a small number use it for teaching development. This research cannot represent the overall field conditions but is expected to provide an overview of the current CAR implementation by Japanese language teachers in Indonesia, and the development of teaching materials that can be developed through routine CAR.

Beyond traditional peer-to-peer teaching evaluation: Using pedagogical theory in conceptualizing a collaborative teaching development program

This paper discusses how pedagogical theory can be used in conceptualizing a collaborative teaching development program in higher education. A theoretically driven teaching development program can be of benefit to both the reviewer and the reviewee by providing (a) a foundation for the reviewee to examine their educational content being reviewed; and (b) a systematic framework for the reviewee for evaluating the content under review. Appropriately used pedagogical theory enables the constructive alignment of teaching, learning, and assessment. This collaborative, self-reflective, and bi-directional teaching development process facilitates a sense of self-determination, which facilitates motivation and achievement of goals.

Evaluation of Tarannum Al-Quran Teaching in Malaysian National Religious Secondary School

This study aims to examine students' perceptions of the implementation of Tarannum al-Quran teaching in Program Kelas Khas Kemahiran al-Quran (KKQ) from the aspect of the teaching development process in the classroom based on the CIPP Model (Stufflebeam & Shinkfield 1985). Data were obtained through questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. The sample of this study involved 78 from four KKQ students in religious, national secondary schools (SMKA), including boarding schools (SBP) in the state of Selangor from 106 population and three teachers as participants. The validity and reliability of the questionnaire instrument obtain a high value with a correlation score between items exceeding 0.25 in addition to content verification by expert reference panel and an overall alpha value of 0.95. At the same time, the semi-structured interview protocol was also confirmed by experts. Questionnaire data were analyzed descriptively using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 11.5 involving frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation. At the same time, the interview data were analyzed and transcribed verbatim to identify the elements involved. The findings show that teachers understand and implement the necessary details in the teaching development process, but it is only moderately high. These elements can be seen through various techniques and strategies, taking into account the diversity of students' levels and abilities and the positive reinforcement that always occurs in the interaction of teachers and students. In conclusion, the implementation of teaching at the stage of teaching development is only at a moderately high level with incremental implications that require continuous development and improvement.

Course Design for Teaching Development: Key Considerations for Faculty Developers

The purpose of this paper is to address key elements of designing a course that aims at developing core competencies in teaching and learning for faculty members. The paper includes discussion of the initial preparation, objectives and learning outcomes, syllabus construction, assignments, assessments, grading, and teaching strategies. The paper is divided into sections, one for each theme or key topic in relation to course design. Finally, a brief reflection concludes the paper. The process of course design did not only allow to learn about the principles of course design, but also expanded one’s understanding of oneself as a faculty developer.

Positive and negative aspects of Credit system in University: some results of the research

Analyzed is the role of credit system students’ knowledge grade in education growth. With this purpose it was made social research in VIP University of CFO. It was researched some students of 1–4th courses and teachers. There’re some results of depth-interview with position experts. It’s fixed that the most part of the students says that credit system (BGS) help to grow their motivation to fundamental and professional study and create their skills and habits and stimulate their systematic self-cultivation. Girls more than man sure that credit-system make impossible to protect unable and unteachable students, become make objective valuations of study capacity. Teachers also sure that credit system stimulate student’s every-day work, make educational technology better and optimized study process. In addition to that, some of them suppose that credit system make far more individual duty of teacher: now it’s necessary not only to write in individual plan-report of study work, but also write in different forms in credit-system. They have not any time to teaching development. The whole, a large part of teacher-respondents (without reference to gender, age or science degree and science order) think that credit system (BGS) is necessary. Base on incovered values and weaknesses of the system of grading, in the article suggested are some actions for its effectiveness growth.