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- Mentoring and Coaching: The Example of the Aianteio Primary School during its Participation in The Network of School Innovation (LDK) 2008-2011
- The Relationship between the Conflict Management Strategies of the Primary Education Administrators and Organizational Climate According to Teachers’ Perceptions
- The Music of Measurement and Evaluation Concepts Kenan Demir kenandemirkfe@gmail.com
- Supporting Professional Development of Teachers in Classroom Use of ICT via Distance Learning Adaptability
- Teacher training: Basic Characteristics of the Educator of the 21 st Century
- “…and They Lived Happily Ever After!” The Use of Narrative in Researching Greek and Turkish Student Teachers’ Perceptions of the Ethnic “Other”
The Evaluation of Educational Achievement Efficacy Area Outcomes of the Third Primary Class Guidance Program Kasım Karataş kasimkaratas@outlook.com İsmet Kaya One of the competence areas described in the Elementary and High School Classroom Guidance Program that is performed in Turkey is “educational achievement”. The general outcomes in the educational achievement competence area are; students develop positive attitudes towards learning, efficiently plan their time and use their free time in accordance with their interests. In addition, they review their study habits and obtain the efficient ways for learning. Therefore, the outcomes of educational achievement in the classroom guidance program have a great importance. In this study, the aim is to reach the information about the objectives of the program, classroom activities and effectiveness of the program as a whole by evaluating pupils’ achieving the goals of the action program's objectives relating to the competency area of a third grade primary school guidance program. What is the level of the students to reach outcomes of educational achievement competence area of a third grade primary school guidance program? In this study, the program has been evaluated by using screening model for sample-event (Karasar, 2009) because of the work on a limited group and adhering to measure demanded by the Tyler's goal-based approach programs. The study group of the research is 28 third grade students in Tokat KOMEC Village Primary School in 2013-2014 school years. Data was collected with "Student Self-Evaluation Form", "Observation Form", "Guidance Activities Assessment Form" in the Primary and the Secondary School Classroom Guidance Program and "Third Grade Educational Achievement Area Survey" which was developed by the researcher. In the analysis of quantitative data, when using the arithmetic mean, descriptive analysis technique was used for the analysis of qualitative data. According to the results of the descriptive analysis of "Self-Evaluation Form", which was applied in order to determine whether the student reached the gains related to educational attainment area with this program, and which was applied under the program at the end of each event, it was seen that the students reached their program goal. However, in line with guidance of the students' reactions, interests and desires, it was demonstrated that the program reached the aim of the activities and the activities were appropriate to developmental and educational level. According to the result of the survey of "Third Grade Educational Achievement Field Survey", it was concluded that the students reached the permanence of the desired target. As a result, according to the result of this study whose data were collected by Tyler's goal-based program evaluation approach, it can be said that objectives and activities implemented under the competency area of educational achievement of students in classroom guidance program were qualitative enough to contribute to the students and therefore effective. Keywords: Guidance, Classroom Guidance Program, Program Evaluation 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 114 Mentoring and Coaching: The Example of the Aianteio Primary School during its Participation in The Network of School Innovation (LDK) 2008-2011 Katerina Boutsi katboutsi@yahoo.com Theodora Tsiagani The aim of the present paper is to bring out that coaching and mentoring are both important mechanisms that, despite being quite different, can be used in education contributing to the professional advancement of the participants so as to actively respond to the demands and recent developments in their work environments. Both coaching and mentoring intend to advance the best practices inside the learning environments they are applied, aiming at a Continuous Professional Development, CPD) (Bolam, 1993, Ηawkins & Smith, 2011). Coaching and mentoring practices were put into practice at the Aianteio Primary School at Salamina within the framework of the collaboration between the school and the Network of School Innovation during the years 2008-2011. My role in this project, resulting from the fact that I worked at the Network of School Innovation, was that of the coordinator of the schools where I mainly acted as a mentor. As a whole our central aim was the training and the enhancement of the teachers so as they could become able to implement innovative practices during their teaching. The kind of mentoring we adopted, (choosing from the existing kinds, mentoring for induction, for progression and mentoring for challenge), was mentoring for progression, which intended to help teachers with experience by developing their professional aptitude. In this case, the mentor assists the teachers to reframe and enrich their previous knowledge and experience in order to understand the policies and philosophy of a new environment and so manage to successfully face new information (Bubb, 2005, 2007). That particular process played a crucial part in the school identity and culture as it created an unprecedented environment of change where collaboration practices developed not only between all the members of the school community (Head-teacher, the school staff, students and parents), but also between other people and the school, and between other schools and the school. Mentoring functioned exemplarily and strengthened the production of critical discourse on the educational process; on a further level it assisted the teachers to recognize the fact that despite the limitations posed by their working framework, at the same time there exist many opportunities for active intervention and change. Keywords: Collaboration, professional development and progress, mentoring and coaching, the development of abilities and skills. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 115 The Relationship between the Conflict Management Strategies of the Primary Education Administrators and Organizational Climate According to Teachers’ Perceptions Kazim Celik kazimcelik@gmail.com Kadir Catakdere Conflict management is the way of action taken by the conflicting sides or another third party. Conflict management might need the presence of conflict which stands at a level and the management of this conflict in different conditions with the appropriate strategies. Organization climate is the series of features that gives an identity to the organization or affects the behaviors of the members of the school organization. The organizational climate of a school is the whole of inside features of the institution which form the behaviors of the members and distinguish that school from others. The aim of this research which was performed by the relational search (scanning) model is to define the relation between school managers’ conflict management strategies and the organizational climate based on the teachers’ perceptions. The research was performed on a total of 230 primary and secondary school teachers who worked in Tire and Bayındır provinces of İzmir in 2013-2014 Academic Year. The data of the research was obtained by Şahin (2007) “Conflict Management Strategies of School Principals Scale’’ and with the help of the translation of “Organizational Climate Perception Scale’’ by Yalçınkaya (2000). The results revealed that according to the teachers’ perception, there was not a significant difference between their type of institutions, the schools which they graduated from, the working background in their schools and their branches while the directors performed conflict strategies. Most of the teachers in the early years of their profession had negative thoughts about the conflict management methods of the principals but it was observed that they chose the way of reconciliation by recognizing the institution and developing communication by the time. However, it is clear that the increase in the school principals’ communication skills affected their perception of conflict management strategies in a positive manner. Additionally, the organizational climate of the schools had a parallel rise with the principals’ conflict strategies in the teachers’ perception. Finally, in this study the concepts of domination and avoidance of conflict management strategies of managing principals’ perceptions of organizational climate had a significant effect on the result obtained. Keywords: Conflict, Conflict Management, Organizational Climate 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 116 The Music of Measurement and Evaluation Concepts Kenan Demir kenandemirkfe@gmail.com In this study, the concepts of measurement were taught by using different ways. In teaching the concepts of this course’s content, many different teaching-learning ways such as mainly creative drama, cooperative learning, multiple intelligences, various encodings, analogy, games, music, dance, rhythm, were used together in coordination. After teaching-learning activities in the course, students wrote lyrics about the concepts of this measurement-evaluation, set the music of popular songs appropriate to these words and presented these studies in the classroom. At the end of study carried out by 2 nd year students of music department a total of 33 songs on the concepts of measurement-evaluation were comprised. The words written by the students to reflect the concepts of measurement-evaluation were rendered to be presented in a concert by adapted to today's popular songs’ music. At the end of the preparatory works done throughout an academic year, a concert with 13 songs was organized called "The Music of Concepts". The concert was conducted by 35 students. At the beginning and end of the study, conducted with pre/post-test quasi-experimental design without control group, a multiple-choice achievement test was used. In order to ensure the scope of validity of data collection tool developed by the researcher, indicator chart and expert opinions were utilized. The qualitative data were obtained by taking written opinions and focus group interviews. For both of interviews, an interview form composed of open-ended questions based on expert opinion was used. In the comparison of the average scores t test was used for associated (dependent) samples. These qualitative data were analyzed descriptively. At the end of the study carried out through original activities, it was determined that the difference between two average scores of 31 students, who obtained them from pre and post-test, was statistically significant in favor of the final test at the 0,05 level of significance. Students participated in this study stated that they reinforced what they had learned in the course thanks to the concert preparations by repeating them in different ways. Thus they learned permanently and in a funny way by transferring information to real life and such activities made positive contributions to the teaching skills of them. At the end of the study, it was determined that using various educational ways together by blending them increased students’ achievements significantly. And again it was determined that original activities affected the students’ various features such as creativity, collaboration, self- confidence. Keywords: Measurement, evaluation, creative teaching-learning, creative drama, concept teaching, 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 117 Supporting Professional Development of Teachers in Classroom Use of ICT via Distance Learning Adaptability Konstantina Kotsari conkotsari@gmail.com Michail Kostoglou This proposal describes the construction of the theoretical framework of distance learning training of teachers with regards to the use of ICT in classroom teaching. Specifically, it discusses the ability of teachers to design and use a logo-like learning environment through the construction of educational geometry scenarios. At the same time they have the opportunity to engage in experiential activities of meaning making, analysis and application of digital tools (Web 2.0), and modeling artifacts in practice. As such, teachers learn to construct logo-like environments, using E-slate software for teaching geometry or other disciplines in Elementary School. Based on principles of distance learning and adult education we built specific activities in accordance with the principles of the “New Learning” (Kalantzis and Cope, 2013) and personalization according to the needs of the learner. We used the platform INSPIREus, an innovation in the field of distance education, which could be used to train teachers in the use of ICT with additional educational value in the classroom. However, as reported by Hanson & Robson (2003), the primary issue is the parameter of the learning effectiveness in Online Learning and the detection of the pedagogical dimension of tools to support learning norms in conjunction with communication and interaction. Nevertheless, the fact that new technologies are the basis of an evolving socio - economic change, which does not leave out the influence of the educational system, could be the framework of teachers professional development. In this context, this presentation is a proposal to implement distance teacher training, taking into account the strengthening of the role of the teacher. In this framework, the teacher as designer of activities appears in the model TPACK through multiple interactions that apply the triple dynamic parameters of knowledge: Content Knowledge (CK), Pedagogical Knowledge (PK) and Technological Knowledge (TK). These dynamic dimensions of knowledge in education are the mainstay of the planning proposal training scenarios concerning with the pedagogical use of ICT in teaching practice through the adaptive learning platform, INSPIREus. Keywords: Distance Learning, Teacher training, Adaptive learning platform, Professional development, Design activities 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 118 Teacher training: Basic Characteristics of the Educator of the 21 st Century Konstantinos Kalemis kkalemis@primedu.uoa.gr Anna Kostarelou Teaching in the 21 st century will be profoundly impacted by universal access to information, advances in neuroscience that help us better understand learning processes and the development of assessment tools which guide teaching interventions. Contemporary teaching needs to be much more than information transmission. Teachers need to respond to these developments and integrate them into their practice, working collaboratively to solve problems and share the latest advances in practice. Just as we require high standards for entry into other professional degrees like medicine, law and psychology, we should require equally high standards for entry into teacher education. Therefore, there needs to be some rationalization of the numbers of school-leavers studying teaching at the undergraduate level, particularly in areas of over-supply. Large scale education in virtual worlds is an emerging phenomenon. The subject has been discussed in the literature for almost two decades but there is little agreement on how to design an effective virtual environment for learning (Cobb and Fraser, 2005). Many of the existing research projects have taken a social constructivist approach to learning in virtual worlds. Social constructivist learning looks at the students as “constructors and producers of personal knowledge” (Jonassen, 1996). Thus, schools of education must design programs that help prospective teachers to understand deeply a wide array of things about learning, social and cultural contexts, and teaching and be able to enact these understandings in complex classrooms serving increasingly diverse students; in addition, if prospective teachers are to succeed at this task, schools of education must design programs that transform the kinds of settings in which novices learn to teach and later become teachers. This means that the enterprise of teacher education must venture out further and further from the university and engage ever more closely with schools in a mutual transformation agenda, with all of the struggle and messiness involved. Distance education is becoming increasingly common in higher education. Various network–based methods are now used to complement classroom education to reduce the effects of distance, making it independent of time and physical location. One of the perennial dilemmas of teacher education is how to integrate theoretically based knowledge that has traditionally been taught in university classrooms with the experience-based knowledge that has traditionally been located in the practice of teachers and the realities of classrooms and schools. Traditional versions of teacher education have often had students taking batches of front-loaded course work in isolation from practice and then adding a short dollop of student teaching to the end of the program—often in classrooms that did not model the practices that had previously been described in abstraction. By contrast, the most powerful programs require students to spend extensive time in the field throughout the entire program, examining and applying the concepts and strategies they are simultaneously learning about in their courses alongside teachers who can show them how to teach in ways that are responsive to learners. Although teacher education is only one component of what is needed to enable high-quality teaching, it is essential for the success of all the other reforms urged on schools. To advance knowledge about teaching, to spread good practice, and to enhance equity for children, thus, it is essential that teacher educators and policy makers seek strong preparation for teachers that is universally available, rather than a rare occurrence that is available only to a lucky few. Keywords: teacher's training, evaluation, e-learning, experience-based knowledge 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 119 “…and They Lived Happily Ever After!” The Use of Narrative in Researching Greek and Turkish Student Teachers’ Perceptions of the Ethnic “Other” Kostas Magos magos@uth.gr The use of storytelling and narrative in educational research is not an innovation. Many researchers have used narrative as a means for researching perceptions and attitudes of teachers. Teachers, through narrative inquiry, can rethink their work and see the changes they make each year, whether they are successful or not. Narratives help teachers reexamine and reflect the views and positions they have already adopted through a fresh critical eye. The reflection on previous perceptions and attitudes constitutes the beginning of a transformative process that is capable of leading someone towards the change of these perceptions and attitudes. There are a large number of studies in which narrative and storytelling have been used for intercultural training, both for student and in-service teachers. Overall, these studies agree that teachers who, through narratives, analyze and interpret their school practices may gradually succeed in raising intercultural awareness while also achieving professional and personal improvement. Many researchers underline the importance of using personal stories as, through such a method, it is possible to demonstrate how teachers use their cultural references to create teaching and learning environments related to the existence of intercultural dimensions. The aim of the research presented here is to search the perceptions of Greek and Turkish female pre and post-graduate student teachers of primary and secondary education concerning the ethnic “self”, the ethnic “other” and the desired relationship between them. The participants of the research were 102 Greek female pre-graduate students of the Department of Pre-school Education of the University of Thessaly and 36 Turkish female post-graduate students of School of Education of Bilkent University. The methodology used was the narrative inquiry, which was based on the analysis of the sample members’ narratives. Although in most researches the autobiographical narratives or life stories of the sample members are used, folk tales, jokes and funny stories or other types of speech coming from research subjects’ narratives can be effectively used too. In this specific research the narratives analyzed use the motif of a folk tale. A story made for this purpose was given to the research subjects where the main heroes represented the ethnic self and the ethnic other. The students who participated in the research were asked to finish the story as they wished. The findings of the research highlighted that the narratives of both Greek and Turkish student teachers often appeared to be the common stereotypes concerning the ethnic “other” but at the same time they expressed the willingness these stereotypes to be overcome through the creation of a fruitful and effective relationship between the ethnic “self” and the ethnic “other”. 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