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标题：Portfolio as a Stimulus for Improving the Work of Teacher Educators: An Experience at a College in the Arab Sector
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作者：Mahmood Khalil
期刊名称：Creative Education
印刷版ISSN：2151-4755
电子版ISSN：2151-4771
出版年度：1597
卷号：05
期号：17
页码：1597-1607
DOI：10.4236/ce.2014.517177
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：The present article examines the contribution of building a portfolio to the professional development of teacher educators, and the effectiveness of their progress within the organized framework. The results of long-time research that was carried out in a college for teachers’ education show the contribution of the derivative works that contain reflection and accompanies reflective thinking meetings for professional progress of teacher educators; for strengthening their motivation; for improving their level of education and ensuring its quality; to develop their involvement in the duty they are fulfilling and for a annual and future planning cultivation. Moral education, values and attitudes via acquiring knowledge in science content knowledge as Dreyfus (1995) emphasized that “biological knowledge is a prerequisite for the development of students’ values and attitudes”. Science knowledge role is not only for academic achievement and mastery of cognitive and metacognitive skills, but to educate students on the affective domain being active in the community life based on moral and ethical values, and positive attitudes toward societal issues, like social justice, preservation of the environment and peace, the last two being addressed due to the fact of having a mutual impact connection in one of the STS learning units presented.
关键词：Curricula; Education; Inquiry; Content; Pedagogical Knowledge; Societal Issues; Ethics and Moral Values