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- Teachers’ Pedagogical Competence in Primary School. Examining the Classroom Climate of Schools Using the Comprehensive Reformed Curriculum
- In-Service Science Teachers Development of TPACK through a Blended Training Program in Greece
- Preparing Secondary Teachers to Adopt Teamwork of Students as a Teaching- Learning Tool
- Conceptualizing Inclusive Education: Final-year Undergraduate Students’ perspectives on Inclusive Education and Disability in the Faculties of Preschool
- Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in Primary Teachers: The Introduction of an Explicit PCK Course
- Interculturalism in Professional Learning of Kindergarten Teachers Maria Giannousopoulou giannousop@sch.gr
- Distance teacher training in ICT. A case in Pilot Experimental Schools in Greece
3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 120 Teachers’ Pedagogical Competence in Primary School. Examining the Classroom Climate of Schools Using the Comprehensive Reformed Curriculum Lampros Papadimas lampapad@uth.gr In 2010, the Ministry of Education decided to introduce a new type of all-day schools, Schools with Comprehensive Reformed Curriculum. This new proposal about primary schools compared with traditional primary schools, included several changes to daily curriculum such as extended school time, enriched program with new teaching subjects and activities, and the inclusion of specialist subject teachers etc. (Ministry of Education, 2011). Specialist subject teachers graduate from the universities that traditionally prepare secondary teachers. Although the aforementioned scheme has not been sufficiently studied, it receives a strong criticism. One of the reasons might be the lack of pedagogical competence of specialist subject teachers (Grollios & Liampas, 2012). This criticism seems to be justified. The preparation of specialist subject teachers is focused exclusively on the specific content knowledge of their respective discipline (i.e. music, ICT, literacy, etc.). Preparation in pedagogical content knowledge, seems to be substandard and insufficient (Kassotakis, 2010), despite the fact that both of these factors are crucial for the quality of teaching and student understanding (Buchmann, 1982, 1983; Doyle, 1986; Feiman-Nemser & Buchmann, 1987; Tobin & Garnett, 1988, Ιn: Cochran et al., 1991). The interest of this study is to examine the classroom climate of Schools using the Comprehensive Reformed Curriculum, comparing the teaching practices of teachers and specialist subject teachers. The research which is a case study took place in a primary school that worked under Comprehensive Reformed Curriculum. All teachers of the school have been involved (13 teachers and 6 specialist subject teachers). The chosen methods were observation combined with semi-structured interviews. The observation process included 38 hours (2 hours for each participant). Personal semi-structured interviews took place to examine the perceptions of participants about their pedagogical role. According to the research results, practices of teachers and specialist subject teachers do not seem to have many differences in terms of forming the classroom climate. The most common practices, of all the participants, seem to be more pedagogical than authoritarian. The most common authoritarian practices seem to be associated with the way communication is formed in the classroom. According to the interviews’ result, most of the specialist subject teachers acknowledge their lack of pedagogical competence compared to regular teachers. They also believe that they should have a more effective pre- service training, concerning their pedagogical competence and they strongly recommend that this training should take place during their initial training. Keywords: Classroom climate, Pedagogical competence, Pedagogical content knowledge, Content knowledge, Specialist subject teachers, Comprehensive Reformed Curriculum 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 121 In-Service Science Teachers' Development of TPACK through a Blended Training Program in Greece Lemonia Antonoglou lantonog@chem.auth.gr Dimitrios Psillos Athanasios Taramopoulos A highly desirable competence of science teachers is to effectively integrate Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in their science courses. To this aim, a blended teacher professional development program combining live sessions, synchronous sessions from a distance through BlackBoard Collaborate and asynchronous activities through Moodle was designed and implemented for primary and secondary teachers from diverse remote regions in Greece. The program is a part of a national wide long term project supported by the Ministry of Education and Institute Diofantos. Key design factors integrated into the program for science teachers are; i) fostering the development of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK), ii) learning ICT by design, iii) inter-relating face to face, synchronous and asynchronous activities and iv) involving teachers in their professional development with regard to ICT. This paper reports on aspects of science teachers’ development of TPACK during and after their participation on the blended training program, which was conducted in six Training Support Centers. An investigation was conducted focusing on the way that participant teachers (N= 50) employed ICT to design educational activities, worksheets and scenarios and to create learning opportunities for their students in their science courses. Moreover, a triangulation analysis of data from mid- and post-training questionnaires and targeted-group interviews after the completion of the program was conducted. The findings of this study revealed that most participants were satisfied with their participation in the blended training program as they believed that this program helped them to develop their TPACK competencies. Furthermore, the results from the coding and the analysis of the interview transcripts based on the TPACK framework as well as the content analysis of the worksheets, which were designed, developed and implemented by the teachers during the period of their training, show that the blended training program enhances in-service teachers' TPACK and support them towards designing effective instructional technological strategies with ICT for their science courses. Keywords: Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Science Teachers, Blended Training Program 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 122 Preparing Secondary Teachers to Adopt Teamwork of Students as a Teaching- Learning Tool Leonidas Gomatos gomatos@otenet.gr Student teamwork has been praised and suggested since the era of Dewey; the merits of this teaching-learning tool regarding what we call nowadays ‘development of social and emotional skills’ have been repeatedly described by pedagogic writers throughout the 20 th century as well as in our days. The efficacy of this teaching method, which comprises student working groups in the classroom, with respect to cognitive development and with respect to learning of the specific subjects has been the object of research during the last decades so as to find out under which conditions this method could be effective. Teachers’ attitudes and practices regarding this teaching-learning tool have nevertheless been less investigated. In this research an intervention is described regarding secondary prospective teachers who are following initial teacher preparation; these teachers are trained in a specific student group work teaching-learning model. This model, described in this work, is put into practice afterwards in real classes towards the end of their training. The research questions of this work are the following: What kind of difficulties do teachers who have been prepared to use a model of student group work encounter when putting this model in practice?, How do they assess the applicability of this model after having used it in practice? To answer these questions, a questionnaire has been prepared and handed out to the prospective teachers after the realization by them of student group work teaching in real classes. The experiences and stances of the student-teachers regarding this model as well as the difficulties encountered are registered through this questionnaire. The chief findings are: a) Prospective teachers usually report two major sources of difficulties; the first one is to choose the appropriate open-ended task to be assigned to the groups. The second concerns the phase of group work; difficulties to handle the questions from different groups and to motivate students so that everybody participates within each group. Some other difficulties are reported as well, less frequent than the two major sources mentioned above, b) They consider in majority that the model can be used often in everyday school practice with some difficulties that can be overtaken easily. This finding is encouraging when compared to the rather cautious up to reluctant attitude of in-service teachers towards the systematic use of student group work in secondary education. Keywords: Student teamwork, difficulties, applicability, teacher preparation. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 123 Conceptualizing Inclusive Education: Final-year Undergraduate Students’ perspectives on Inclusive Education and Disability in the Faculties of Preschool Education in Greece and Cyprus Lia Tsermidou tsermidou@hotmail.com Eudoxia Deropoulou-Derou Athina Zoniou-Sideri Konstantina Lampropoulou Inclusive education is increasingly becoming the most appropriate framework for the organization of educational, social and political systems in Europe and worldwide. Faculties of Education around the world in line with international sociopolitical trends have introduced a series of actions aimed at promoting the concept of inclusive education and relevant issues. In recent decades, core courses on inclusive education and disability have also been included in the undergraduate programs of study at the Faculties of Early Childhood Education in Greece and Cyprus. The purpose of these courses is to familiarize undergraduate students with the theoretical framework for inclusive education, i.e. with pedagogical approaches applied within the context of mainstream education and which respect the principles of a democratic school, thereby promoting "equality for all" (Slee, 2004, Armstrong, 2004, Watkins, 2003). In order to meet this objective, it is essential that the perspectives of final-year undergraduate students on inclusive education and disability be explored, as they can decisively determine the leeway to develop and change the educational practice. This presentation hence maps the prevailing perceptions of disability in a student population which is simultaneously close to graduation and to the educational reality, as the latter is reflected in the pre-service teacher training. The data used emanate from a quantitatively-oriented longitudinal study employing a descriptive research method, the survey research. The findings of the study highlighted the students’ adoption of a theoretical discourse on inclusive education in support of the struggle against exclusion and discrimination experienced by disabled students. However, contradictions were detected in the same students’ discourse regarding the feasibility of inclusive education within mainstream educational settings. Consequently, concerns are raised whether prospective teachers, before the completion of their studies, have actually reflected on issues related to inclusive education to such an extent that they can shift from preaching the benefits of inclusive education to adopting and accommodating inclusive education in practice. The results of this study could potentially inform research concerning inclusive education and the findings could act as a springboard for feedback and assessment of the opportunities offered by the Faculties of Early Childhood Education towards inclusive education. Keywords: Inclusive education, Disability, Higher Education 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 124 Developing Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) in Primary Teachers: The Introduction of an Explicit PCK Course Maria Chaitidou chaitidou@gmail.com Anna Spyrtou Petros Kariotoglou The study reported here is a part of a Project named "Science Teacher Education" which aims to investigate how primary teachers extend their teaching views and practices, by adopting and designing inquiry based Teaching-Learning Sequences (TLSs) (Tiberghien, Vince, & Gaidioz 2009). Particularly, this research focuses on four teachers’ PCK development which takes place in an in-service participatory training program. The theoretical context of this study is based on the well-documented consideration that the development of PCK is considered to be a main goal of teacher education since PCK includes teachers’ understanding of how students learn specific subject matter (Van Driel & Berry 2012). Additionally, the explicit introduction of PCK to teachers has been recently introduced (Loughran et al 2008) raising further questions to the related research area. In the paper, firstly we will describe the theoretical as well as the practice phase of the program. Specifically the first phase includes: (i) the explicit introduction of PCK components, namely Content, Pedagogy, Context and (ii) teachers’ engagement in an inquiry TLS concerning nanotechnology. In the practice phase teachers design and implement two TLSs in real classrooms. Furthermore, it will be presented and discussed the results derived from a questionnaire that was based on a tool well known as Content Representations (CoRes) (Loughran, Mulhall, & Berry 2004). The questionnaires, pre and post, were implemented at the begging and in the end of the program respectively. The results revealed seven categories on teachers’ PCK development concerning their Pedagogy, Content and Context knowledge. Keywords: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Teacher Education 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 125 Interculturalism in Professional Learning of Kindergarten Teachers Maria Giannousopoulou giannousop@sch.gr Research conducted in the field of early childhood education has highlighted the significance of adopting adult learning and professional learning principles in order to promote the continuing professional development of teachers, especially regarding intercultural education. In this respect, it has been generally agreed upon that teaching effectiveness depends largely on the extent to which teachers engage in critical reflection on their practices, as well as in collaborative and participatory learning processes related to all levels of their school unit, thus transforming it into a learning community. In the light of the above, the purpose of this paper is to present a qualitative study which has been carried out in the area of Ierapetra, Crete so as to explore the views and experiences of 12 kindergarten teachers concerning interculturalism and its relation to professional learning. More specifically, aiming at addressing a significant gap in research regarding early childhood education in Greece, this study focused on investigating the participants’ views on their own intercultural competence and the problem-solving techniques used in their intercultural practice, as well as their views, attitudes and experiences about various forms of professional learning they can employ to effectively manage diversity within their multicultural classes and hence fulfil the needs of all their learners. For the purposes of this research, the required data were collected by means of semi-structured one-to-one and focus group interviews while qualitative content analysis was employed in order to analyze and interpret them in a systematic way. Illustrating the ineffectiveness of previous training and the consequent de-professionalization of their role as reflective practitioners, the findings reveal that, in terms of knowledge, skills and attitudes, the participants have not developed their intercultural competence to a satisfactory level yet and that they employ rather few and inappropriate strategies and techniques to solve the numerous problems they encounter in intercultural practice. In this respect, they have highlighted the fundamental elements of an appropriate in- service training program which needs to aim at their professional empowerment and incorporate both formal and informal learning techniques so as to help them expand their knowledge base, develop their skills, transform their attitudes and eventually enhance their intercultural teaching and learning practices. Based on the participants’ responses, therefore, it can be argued that conditions in these kindergartens are mature enough for such a venture; to that end, scientific support or constructive cooperation with academics will be crucial so that, by bridging the gap between theory and practice, practitioners are able to create new knowledge by exploring and critically reflecting on their experiences and practices. Keywords: Interculturalism, professional learning, early childhood education, learning community. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 126 Distance teacher training in ICT. A case in Pilot Experimental Schools in Greece Maria Gkountouma gkountouma@yahoo.com Maria Kouklatzidou Rapid ICT development, globalized enterprising, common policies among countries along with a shift towards a knowledge-based economy have all made lifelong learning a necessity and a prerequisite of contemporary global labor market. Inevitably, lifelong learning has infiltrated education, since the ever-changing global context expects teaching professionals to be constantly up-to-date. Teachers are in need of lifelong learning so as to avoid professional downgrading, remain up-to-date, claim financial benefits and develop their personal and social skills. Evidently, a professional’s motives of participation in lifelong learning may range significantly, from inner self-actualization needs and ambition to peer-pressure and professional recognition. According to the Pedagogical Institute (2009), the benefits and positive outcome of further teacher-training is evident not only in the teachers themselves but also in society, as the quality of education and the educational system’s standards have been highly improved. Still, the lack of a systematic, well-organized, broadly disseminated teacher training is noticeable. The Pedagogical Institute (2009) eloquently detected some shortcomings, among others; lack of continuity, lack of a well-structured teacher training plan, overlapping of responsibilities, organizational shortcomings, full ignorance of the teachers’ needs centralism and lack of credibility and adequacy of the teacher training providers. Furthermore, the lack of free time, family responsibilities, professional frustration, training costs, inadequate access to information on available trainings or limited seat availability, all deter teachers from participating in teacher- trainings. In this context, a distance education teacher training program for professionals working in Pilot Experimental Schools around Greece was designed, implemented and evaluated. The aim of the program was to train teachers in using ICT tools in their classes effectively, to promote collaborative work in virtual environments and to bring about a positive shift towards ICT and lifelong learning. The program was conducted on a weekly basis, in modules, supported by Open e-class, a GUnet LM.S. Participation in the program required designing and implementing various activities, according to preset learning goals. Participants were evaluated in various stages. Initially a needs assessment was conducted, which partly formed the finalized material and goals set. Throughout the program, participants carried out numerous activities whilst in the end of the program they filled-in an online form, which required a critical reflection of their participation. Conclusively, this paper encompasses the teacher training program profile, goals, methodology and outcomes, aiming to become an alternative training proposal for all teachers interested in ICT use in the classroom. Keywords: teacher training, distance learning, Pilot Experimental Schools, ICT Download 5.07 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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