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What is Cognitive Functioning

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Handbook of Research on Global Issues in Next-Generation Teacher Education
A term referring to a human’s ability to process to (thoughts) that should not deplete on a large scale in healthy individuals. Cognition mainly refers to things like memory, the ability to learn new information, speech, understanding of written materials. The brain is usually capable of learning new skills, typically in early childhood, and of developing personal thoughts and beliefs about the world.
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Teachers' Portfolios: A Reflective Tool towards Professional Development
Zineb Djoub (Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University of Mostaganem, Algeria)
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-9948-9.ch009
Abstract
To achieve professional development and the intended educational goals, teachers' reflection has been considered as a necessary component of the teaching process. Indeed, reflection is process of questioning one's practices, intention and the emerging outcomes. Such reflection is also a source of inspiration, creativity, flexibility and thus, a means to achieve learners' motivation and interest in active and engaged learning. To enhance reflective teaching, teaching portfolios have been widely advocated in language teaching. To that end, this chapter attempts to provide a teaching portfolio model which aims at prompting teachers' reflection over their profession. Additionally, it illustrates the way such tool needs to be used by teachers so that they can reflect effectively and improve their teaching.
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