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A nursing home affiliated with a university medical school or medical center. In addition to the teaching function of the conducts research on the chronic health problems that often lead older persons to be institutionalized, e.g., dementia, incontinence, loss of mobility, depression, and sleep disorders.  

Those planned approaches or procedures that the teacher intends to employ to most effectively influence the learners by favorably affecting their comprehension of a new situation or influencing further their comprehension of a familiar situation.  

A group of teachers and/or learners who implement and conduct the health education program. Such groups also facilitate an interdisciplinary approach to health education.  

A hospital in which preprofessional students and graduates receive clinical experience are affiliated with one or more medical schools. A hospital which provides undergraduate or graduate medical education, usually with one or more medical, dental or osteopathic (AMA, ADA or AOA approved) internship and residency programs and affiliation with a medical school. Hospitals which educate…

The role assumed by a teacher when evaluating the effectiveness of various educational and instructional techniques, teacher practitioner.  

A program of testing teachers’ basic skills, begun in Arkansas in the early 1980s. The concept of such testing rapidly spread throughout the country and is now a requirement in most states as a certification requirement.    

Organizations of teachers that lobby on behalf of the education profession at the state and federal levels, organize at the local levels to ensure the fair employment practices of school districts, and negotiate for teacher contracts.  

What teachers perceive as their function in the classroom and their expectations about their ability to carry out that role.  

The set of behaviors generally expected of one who is a teacher.  

Departments, schools, and institutions of higher education that confer degrees in education.