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- Biopedagogism: A New Teacher Training Model in Special Education
- Improving Teaching Practices in Foreign Language Classrooms: A Focus nn EFL Exam Preparation Classes
- The Perceptions of Teachers on the Arrangement of Teaching Activities Based on Arcs Motivation Model
- The Role of Research in Professional Development Using Structured Academic Controversy
- Experiencing Mentorship, as a Field for Professional Development in Early Childhood Education
- Developing a Professional Community of Learning and Practice through the Hellenic Practicum Network for Early Childhood Education
- School Principals’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Teachers’ Performance Evaluation
3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 105 Biopedagogism: A New Teacher Training Model in Special Education? Irene Maleskou emaleskou1988@gmail.com Spyridon-Georgios Soulis Ismini-Charikleia Karatzeni Vasileios Masouras The question about the appropriate training of special education teachers is timeless and exceptionally crucial. Teachers’ education and continuing professional development constitute an institution of strategic importance and therefore, this paper focuses on the analysis and the implementation of new pedagogical theories. One of these new pedagogical theories is Biopedagogism. More specifically, Biopedagogism is an interdisciplinary approach between Biology and the pedagogico – educational strategy, which reflects the evolutionary shaping of the human brain. The theoretical frame of Biopedagogism is based on the hierarchical evolutionary principle of the four basic capacities of human: The first capacity that emerged was the Technological capacity (Τ). It was followed by the Social/ Socialization capacity (S), then by the Language/Literacy capacity (L) and finally by the Numeracy/Theorizing capacity (N/Τ). During the evolutionary process of the Homo species, competences were formed on these four capacities. According to the above, the purpose of this recommendation is to demonstrate the implementation of Biopedagogism as a training model for special education teachers. For the research needs, an empirical study was conducted in the region of Epirus during the 2014 – 2015 school year. The purpose of this research was to record the relationship between Biopedagogism and teachers’ education and continuous professional development in the field of special educational needs. The results of this pilot study indicate a positive correlation between biopedagogism and teachers’ training in Special Education, while leaving this field open and determining the necessity for further investigation. Keywords: Biopedagogism, Teachers, Special Education, Biology, training, correlation 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 106 Ecosystem of Teacher and Education in Novels Irfan Erdoğan yaralimete@hotmail.com Yar Ali Mete Hüseyin Serin Literature is a full of written and verbal data of materials based on language, which shows thoughts, emotions and dreams of people, and has literary and aesthetics value. Literature and education are tightly coupled to each other. In terms of word stem, literature means “good education and behaviors and words that are approved by the society”. In literary works, it can be seen that literature as a science is connected with education. According to Kavcar (2000), “most of the literary works were written to educate people for various aims”. The connection between literature and education makes education the most important subjects of literary works. While writing, writers are affected by the environment that he/she is in. By this way, between fiction and reality, the writers become closer to the projection of reality. In this survey, the novels that have teacher characters, and in which the ecosystem, time, place are about teacher images are studied. The writers create an ecosystem while using teacher image and construct the novel while creating vegetation system in this ecosystem. In Turkish literature, we can see this characteristic in lexical items of realist novels. In this survey, we have tried to analyze teacher typology and ecosystems that take place in realist novels. The analyses are based on lexical items about teacher, head master, environment inside and outside school and families. Document review is done in the survey. The novels in the survey are “Çalıkuşu” “Yeşil Gece” and “Acımak” by Reşat Nuri Güntekin, “Vurun Kahpeye” by Halide Edip Adıvar. The sample of the survey is the teachers and also the main characters and supporting characters of these novels. Each of them are analyzed separately and compared and shown in kora scheme. Content analysis is done in the survey. In the analysis, teacher, class vegetations, society vegetations and environment ecosystems are analyzed separately and compared in kora scheme. In data analysis, samples from the novels are used and made references. In making references, writings in the novels are used; no changes are done. And then, conclusions are drawn with interpretations. Later, these structures are discussed in integrity and successes and failures reasons of teachers in transforming different vegetations which are in their ecosystem are discussed. Finally, we have tried to create a model teacher typology that can be successful in different ecosystems and vegetations. Keywords: Novel, Teacher 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 107 Improving Teaching Practices in Foreign Language Classrooms: A Focus nn EFL Exam Preparation Classes Irini Papakammenou renikapap@yahoo.com Limited research has been undertaken in the Greek context (Tsagari, 2009, 2012) on the influence of language exams on teaching and learning, even though Greece has a strong examination culture (Gass & Reed, 2011; Tsagari & Papageorgiou, 2012). Greece presents an interesting pedagogical ecology since Greek students participate in more than one exam in the same exam period. The term ‘multi-exam’ class best describes the variety of exams which are taught in the same exam preparation classes in Greece presenting an interesting pedagogical ecology. This new teaching challenge calls for reflective investigation both regarding the nature of teaching and the research practices. This paper, drawing on a work in progress, aims to present an investigation into the washback effect (Alderson & wall, 1993) of multi-exam classes on teaching practices in Greece. It focuses on teachers’ instruction providing a systematic investigation of teachers’ teaching methodology when preparing English language learners for high-stakes exams. A distinction is made between ‘methods’, ‘activities’ and ‘tasks’ regarding teacher’s methodology and the extent to which teachers’ approaches are influenced by the nature and requirements of multi-exam classes is investigated. This paper will present not only the theoretical underpinnings and research design of the study but also the overall research methods, video recorded observations, pre-, post- and follow-up interviews with teachers, the questionnaire and the methods of analysis. It will then present findings showing the results on teachers’ pedagogy and what teaching strategies, activities and tasks are used in exam preparation classes. It will also present teacher’s beliefs and the factors affecting their decisions. Finally, it will focus on results on washback effect of these exam preparation programs which show how crucial it is to investigate teaching in exam preparation classes. The paper will show the value of research on teacher education. It will contribute to a teacher’s voice which, so far, has been absent from the local and national level providing valuable information on teachers’ needs for training. New methodologies and possible ways to cope with the demands that exams and classroom assessment create will be presented. Therefore, teachers will be able to balance teaching and learning with testing and assessment. Keywords: assessment, testing, research, teachers, teaching strategies, exams, washback 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 108 The Perceptions of Teachers on the Arrangement of Teaching Activities Based on Arcs Motivation Model Ismet Kaya ismetkaya0571@hotmail.com Kasım Karataş Tuncay Ardiç Because of this reason, so many theories and models related to motivation, a psychological concept in education, have been developed up to now. One of the developed models is ARCS (Attention-Relevance-Confidence-Satisfaction) Motivation Model (Keller, 1979) in which the factor of motivation is taken into account and even put in the core of teaching process. According to the Keller’s motivation model, there are four subdimensions that increase the level of motivation and hold level of motivation steady at a certain point in the process of learning. These subdimensions are “Attention”, “Relation”, “Trust” and “Satisfaction”. Developed to increase teacher impact and to make the factor of motivation distinctive in the process of teaching, ARCS Model provide certain strategies to arouse students’ interest in lessons and keep it on. The variable of motivation cannot be ignored in the process of education. So the teachers are expected to construct teaching activities and practices by taking the variable of motivation into account. Along with this expectation, the level of teachers’ taking the variable of motivation into an account is a topic of concern. So the aim of this study is to examine the perceptions of teachers on taking the variable of motivation into an account based on ARCS motivation model in the arrangement of teaching activities in teaching and learning process. In this study survey method has been adopted as it is aimed to reach a general judgement with the help of data obtained from a group (Karasar, 2009). Study group of this research constitutes total 382 (213 male and 169 female) teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools. In order to obtain data related to teachers’ arrangement of teaching activities based on ARCS motivation model “The Scale of Arranging Teaching Activities Based on ARCS Motivation Model” developed by the researchers was conducted. In this study, the mean scores obtained from the scale have showed that teachers arrange teaching activities in a way that they can motivate student in the process of teaching. To sum up the findings, teachers take students’ motivation into account in the process of teaching and arrange their teaching activities in a way that it can increase students’ motivation. Keywords: ARCS, Motivation, Teaching Activities. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 109 The Role of Research in Professional Development Using Structured Academic Controversy Jacquelyn Melin melinj@gvsu.edu Sally Hipp Educating competent teachers to ensure professionalism is crucial in increasing the quality of education. An essential element of professional development is teaching teachers to become critical consumers of research. By analyzing research teachers can share concepts, develop critical reflection and apply research to innovative teaching methods. There are few aspects of education on which all research studies are in total agreement. Studies have been done on both sides of issues such as standardized testing, literacy instruction, online learning, teacher evaluation models, differentiated instruction – just to name a few. In a report by the British Educational Research Association (BERA), the authors share that “there is strong evidence that teachers and teacher educators need to engage with research, in the sense of keeping up to date with the latest developments in their academic subject and on effective instructional techniques to inform their pedagogical content knowledge”. Reading research is one important way teachers learn about teaching and learning. Teachers benefit from reading research critically as they collaborate to work through research studies together. “Contribution of research to continuing professional development is potentially highly significant; the use of research-based knowledge, theoretical insights and involvement in research processes all feature strongly in the evidence about professional development and in the selection and use of tools to aid teachers’ learning”. Structured Academic Controversy (SAC), a tool developed by cooperative learning researchers Johnson and Johnson (1994), is one strategy that encourages teachers to take on and argue for BOTH sides of an issue and ultimately come up with a balanced opinion. During professional development that incorporates SAC, teachers work in pairs to become familiar with one side of an issue, debate with another pair who has become familiar with the opposing side of that issue. Then switch “sides,” become familiar with the opposing argument, and debate again. Finally, the pairs come together to discuss each side and come to a consensus about their collective opinion regarding the argument. While using SAC during professional development, many positive outcomes are observed. When reading and discussing research studies on controversial issues in education, teachers use complex reasoning skills, higher quality decision making, and have increased motivation and energy to take action. In this session, attendees learn about how SAC is used during professional development to help teachers become critical consumers of educational research. Keywords: research, professional development, structured academic controversy 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 110 Experiencing Mentorship, as a Field for Professional Development in Early Childhood Education Kafenia Botsoglou kmpotso@uth.gr Eleftheria Beazidou In this paper we will present the results of a case study, concerning the role of Mentors, in the frame of school practice for early childhood education students. Aim of the study was to sketch how early childhood education teachers perceived their role as mentors, built their relationships with the students, the difficulties that they had to manage during this experience, and the way that they finally evaluated this new role for their professional development. In order to record the Early Childhood Teacher's views we made semi structured interviews in the 7 teachers who participated in the program. The results of the study showed us that for all the participants this experience was a positive one, which gave them new challenges and opportunities in their work. Keywords: mentors, early childhood education teachers, professional development 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 111 Developing a Professional Community of Learning and Practice through the Hellenic Practicum Network for Early Childhood Education Kafenia Botsoglou kmpotso@uth.gr Vasilis Tsafos Μarianna Τzekaki The Hellenic Practicum Network was founded in 2007 by the initiative of academic and research members coming from almost all the Schools of Early Childhood Education in Greece. The members of the group, consisted of about thirty (30) academics and fifty (50) educational partners, meet about once every year and develop reflection and dialogue concerning the improvement of Practicum applied by the Schools of Education. These Schools, strongly related to the educational process, develop major Practicum Programs, whose the necessity but also the complexity are generally and worldwide recognized (Beck & Kosnik, 2002; LaBoskey & Richert, 2002). Practicum is a key component in any teacher education program. During this practical section of their studies the students have the opportunity to participate, observe, analyze both the educational environment and the educational process, to reflect in order to use practical and moral judgments for choosing strategies and plan their educational intervention, (Zeichner & Liston 1996; Lundeberg & Levin, 2003) and to experiment with teaching approaches and strategies and to test their forces in the classroom reality (Day, 2003). Thereby, linking theoretical approaches with practical applications (Anderson & Freebody, 2012), they also develop (except from academic knowledge) relevant professional skills (Feiman-Nemser, 2001) Research findings from all over the world record the particular difficulties that this connection between theoretical positions and practical applications reveals, similarly as organizing and supervising the students’ practices (Blömeke & Paine, 2008; Stephens, Tønnessen, & Kyriacou, 2004; Uljens, 2002). Issues like the model of practicum that is effective for educating future reflecting teachers (Blömeke & Pain, 2008) the potential guidance and the feedback that should be given to them, the views of educators and student teachers are only some of the elements that are involved in the development of practicum in the educational departments and are in the middle of network’s problematization. Moreover, as Cochran-Smith states that teaching and teacher education are political, in that they involve negotiation of conflicting beliefs and values about the purpose and role of schooling (2005). The systematic exchange and dialogue between the members of Hellenic Practicum Network, in the reflective, participative and cooperative context of this dynamic professional community, the efforts to synthetically publish research works (see. on Androussou, & Avgitidou, 2013 ) as well as to develop a common language and connections of different views and approaches in order to compose a handbook for the practicum in all schools of the country, are some of the current achievements of the EIS that will be presented in the conference. Keywords: Hellenic Practicum Network, teacher education 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 112 School Principals’ Self-Efficacy Beliefs on Teachers’ Performance Evaluation Kalliope Kaltsonoudi kellykalts@yahoo.gr Anastasia Athanasoula-Reppa Inside the modern educational context, school principals are asked to take over new and more demanding roles. Reasonably, questions are raised regarding the parameters that mostly contribute to the definition of the employment behavior of principals in schools. A dynamic way to acquire deep knowledge of the principals, as entities within the school social system, is the examination of their beliefs and motivations. Based on social-cognitive theory of Bandura (1986) for leader’s self-efficacy in the execution of a task in a given context and in accordance with P.D. 152/2013 for the role of the principal as an implementing agent of the task of teachers administrative evaluation, is theoretically defined the research problem of this study. The research purpose is to reflect the views of principals’ self-efficacy beliefs on the exercise of teacher evaluation role. Based on literature review, the research hypotheses concern at the investigation of the existence or not of a significant statistical difference between principals’ evaluative self-efficacy beliefs and their demographic characteristics, as well as the correlation between principals’ general and specific evaluative self-efficacy beliefs. In the Greek educational reality, the contribution of principals’ self-efficacy beliefs on the effective teacher evaluation is a rather unexplored field. This research through quantitative approach uses as a means of data collection a structured questionnaire with closed questions (Likert) of 7-degree or 9- degree scale. The used measurement scales are: (a) “Generalized Self-Efficacy-(GSE)” Scale of Schwarzer & Jerusalem (1995), (b) “General Principals’ Self-Efficacy Scale-(G_PSES)”, (c) "Principals’ Evaluative Self-Efficacy Scale-(AA)” and (d) Scale of “Evaluative Outcome Expectations-(EXP_RESULTS)”. The last three ones were constructed specifically for the needs of the research, for that it was carried out structural validation. Through simple random sampling of 249 Primary and Secondary schools in B΄ Education Directorate of Athens, it was finally gathered 151 principals’ self-report questionnaires, which formed the sample of the research. The results of the statistical analysis are fully consistent with the existing theory (Bandura, 1986) and the previous research on leaders’ self-efficacy (Tschannen-Moran & Gareis, 2004). They have demonstrated a high level of general (personal and directorial) self-efficacy beliefs in the sample. The specific evaluative self-efficacy beliefs reflected in slightly lower, but still satisfactory level. The principals’ demographic characteristics at personal and school level, showed no statistically significant differences in relation to their specific evaluative self-efficacy except from those holding a doctoral degree. Instead, the positive correlations of the two forms of general self-efficacy (personal and directorial) with the specific evaluative self-efficacy were statistically significant. Additionally, these two forms of general self-efficacy seemed to be predictor factors for the specific self-efficacy, with the factor of general personal self-efficacy to be stronger and more preferable. Similarly, a strong positive correlation between the specific evaluative self-efficacy and the expected results from the exercise of teachers’ evaluation task seemed to be equally statistically significant. Conclusions, implications and suggestions for further research are discussed. Keywords: School principals’ self-efficacy, general self-efficacy, specific self-efficacy, outcome expectations, teacher evaluation 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 113 Download 5.07 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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