Such formative evaluation may also meet the requirement of an ongoing on-the-job reinforcement (17).
However, continuous assessment must be instituted and maintained. The BGU training program has been rigorously evaluated and has proven to be effective. We then begin to make inferences and deductions regarding these ideas or impressions, working from the known to the unknown, from particulars to generalities.
Personal growth and institutional development are intertwined. The high proportion of educational leaders who emerged from the program illustrates these two features. Such feelings might well be a prerequisite for any educational innovation (7). When this feeling is combined with the realization that education is a discipline in its own right, a feeling of belonging to both the institution and to the teaching profession arises. The involvement of the teachers is encouraged and welcomed. The individual is guided to become a member in a multidisciplinary team, working together towards an understandable and worthwhile cause. Its very essence is to create personal involvement of every trainee on both emotional and practical levels. Indeed, the term "training" becomes alien to the program. The second feature is the emphasis placed throughout the program on the motivational aspects. Moreover, the program acknowledges individual differences, and thus offers a variety of themes and training methods to fit personal needs and expectations. Opportunities to implement already acquired skills precede the development of additional ones. The teacher him/herself determines the pacing. Moreover, perception provides us with knowledge of particulars in our. One is the timewise hierarchical structure, which enables gradual acquisition of instructional skills, progressing from generic to specific (9) and from curricular generalities to particulars of a course and of a lesson. It is most directly contrasted with generalities, notably including kinds of. Many components of the described teacher-training program are implemented elsewhere (2, 4, 6, 8, 16) however, two features of the BGU program, when combined, make it unique.
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