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- Students With Disabilities Perspectives of Service Quality in Special Vocational Training: A Critical Review of The Student-as-a-Consumer Paradigm
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Encouraging Pre-Service Teachers to Reflect on Their Teaching During Practicum Anastasia Raikou araikou@upatras.gr Athanasios Karalis Maria Kampeza The importance of reflection for learning has been emphasized in the context of many professional education programs. Although reflection has been described in many ways and definitions may not reach consensus, it is generally accepted that it enhances teacher’s professional learning. A teacher constantly has to make choices and make decisions that will have an impact on children’s learning and development. Reflection is considered necessary not only to help teachers realize the connection between certain practices and class results but even more importantly, it may strengthen the examination of personal assumptions related to certain issues and the planning of future actions that will change and improve teaching. In the Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education of Patra’s University in Greece, students take part in a practicum program that consists of a series of courses at the university and the teaching experience in public kindergartens. In this study we are going to present how reflection was used by fourth-year students who were enrolled in the practicum program. The data were collected mainly using student’s daily individual forms of teaching implementation. We were interested in the issues or concerns that students faced during teaching practicum concerning the implementation of the activities, the teaching process and the interaction between them and the children. Keywords: reflection, practicum, initial teacher education, early years education 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 20 Students With Disabilities Perspectives of Service Quality in Special Vocational Training: A Critical Review of The Student-as-a-Consumer Paradigm Anastasia Vlachou anavlachou@uth.gr Ioanna Georgiadou The service-recipient paradigm defines education as a service experienced by students and other stakeholders of learning institutions who assess several aspects of quality of that service (Havarnek and Brodwin, 1998). From this perspective, educational institutions should not neglect to satisfy the students, who are the educational service recipients. In fact, students’ satisfaction has been characterized as the “barometer of service quality in education” (Arambewela & Hall, 2006) and for this reason the student-satisfaction approach formulates an ongoing process of assessment, feedback and adjustment of the total student experience, cultivating a trend for continuous quality improvement of the educational services that learning institutions provide (Harvey, 1995). In the light of the above, this presentation aims to explore issues related to students’ satisfaction with post-secondary education, focusing on the field of special vocational training. In particular, the analysis unfolds around the exploration of the obsolete yet still widely used student-as-a-product metaphor which limits the evaluation of the educational procedure to the sole assessment of the student’s cognitive progress, versus the student-as-a-customer metaphor which stems from the commercial transfer from merely producing goods, to producing the goods that consumers would care to buy (Mahatmya et al, 2014; Tight, 2013; Cardoso et al, 2011; Sven, 2005; Tan & Kek, 2004; Ramirez, 1999; Aldridge & Rowley, 1998; LeBlanc & Nguyen, 1997; McMillan & Cheney, 1996). The helpful components and negative connotation of both of those metaphors are marked. The presentation then traces the application of the consumer based paradigm in the higher education sector, where students’ assessment of service quality indicate the importance of functional aspects of education services (Ibrahim, 2014; Glaser ‐Segura et al, 2007; Marsh & Roche, 1997; Marsh & Roche, 1993; Poplin & Weeres, 1993). Similar findings from research in vocational education and special vocational education reveal the multilateral aspects of the instructor’s competency -such as in relevant curriculum, career assessment procedures, vocational interventions, community resources, and disability knowledge- which determine the satisfaction of students with disability (Behdioğlu Şener, 2014; Ibrahim et al, 2012; Herbert et al, 2010; Fitzgerald & Harmon, 1988; Hasazi et al, 1985). Involving the student with disability in the evaluation of the vocational training institutions’ services, while fulfilling the role of student as customer, actualizes empowerment featuring Dewey’s (1949) principle for student engagement and responsibility in education. The findings are discussed in terms of their implications for advancing instructors’ professional development and promoting the effectiveness of vocational training institutions. Keywords: vocational training, special education, disability, service quality, consumer metaphor 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 21 Spreading the Virus of Active Learning: Widespread Exploitation of the Experience of Learning Mobilities of Teachers Participating in the Erasmus+ KA1 Program Anastasia Voutyra voutyraa@gmail.com Sophia Smyrni Educators assume the responsibility to connect the rapidly changing world with its future citizens. The teaching profession is becoming increasingly complex, demanding and challenging. Several research findings take into account that more recently developed teaching approaches require more professional development. Teacher efficacy is strongly connected to teacher professional learning opportunities that can provide mastery and vicarious experiences, raising teachers’ personal competence levels. School embedded professional learning opportunities can thus answer to self-directed desires for instructional change, which can then provide the motivation to sustain efforts and overcome obstacles. There seems to be a powerful relationship between increasing teacher efficacy and increased student achievement. The EU points out that training programs for teachers should enhance teachers’ experience, promoting collaborative interdisciplinary approaches. The Erasmus+ Program KA1provides support for projects that promote the development of teachers' competences. During the current school year (2014-15) the 2 nd High School of Xylokastro undertook the Erasmus+ project “Spreading the virus of active learning”. Seven teachers took part in two training workshops delivered by the European Bridges Consulting: a) Group Dynamics and Social Skills in the Classroom: An insight into group dynamics and social skills, tools to observe group process, ways to improve classroom climate and the general school wellbeing. b) Action Methods Increasing Motivation and Quality in Learning Situations: Teachers learnt ways to improve learners’ motivation, create group cohesion, a positive classroom climate. For the dissemination of the project results, we first carried out an “in-service training”, sharing the learning experience of our mobility with all the teaching staff in our school with the view to improve our performance and effectiveness. Afterwards, we implemented the acquired knowledge in our classrooms in various subjects: English, Home economics, Biology, Modern Greek, Professional Orientation, and Interdisciplinary Projects. In due course, we diagnosed that a positive change was demonstrated in the learners’ attitude concerning their participation in the learning process: the number of active learners increased, intrapersonal relations improved, pupils were more energized and enthusiastic to repeat activities, which verified the basis of Dewey's assumption “one cannot learn without motivation”. Overall difficulties that we faced were the different teaching styles, the different codes of conduct and communication, the diverse professional experiences of teachers and, occasionally, lack of time. The following part of the dissemination is addressed to all educators of the Xylokastro municipality, viewing to create a teacher network, promoting the development of a common understanding of instructional goals, methods, problems and solutions. Thus, we collaborated with our Pedagogical Counselor, who supported the implementation of educational innovations and encouraged us providing guidance to carry out an interschool training workshop for teachers of our area in early May, so as to promote the effective teaching method that we recently practiced. We aspire to trigger a positive impact on 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 22 the quality of the participants’ teaching approaches. As MacBeath states, “few charismatic teachers who act differently may start to incubate an epidemic”. Keywords: Erasmus+ mobility, teacher professional development, peer learning, enhance motivation, active learning 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 23 Building Trust in Schools: The Phantom Quality For Successful School Leadership Anastasios Maratos maratos@pre.uth.gr Angeliki Lazaridou Educational researchers have identified the importance and value of trust within schools and school leadership: Trust is a critical ingredient of the social context of schools because it improves cooperation; it enriches openness and health in a school culture; it is essential for leadership, and perhaps most importantly, it facilitates student achievement. Trust has consequences for a range of activities in the school including the way teachers cooperate and work together, but trust is particularly important when the leader aims to take the staff somewhere unknown, to bring about change. Research has shown that the existence of trust between teachers and their administrative superiors, leads, more often, to the achievement of the educational goals being set, while at school organizational level, cooperation and creativity is reinforced (Bryk & Schneider, 2002; Tschannen-Moran & Hoy, 2000; Tschannen-Moran & Hoy, 2001; Dimitri Van Maele , Mieke Van Houtte , 2015). The existence of trust within the school not only affects the behavior of teachers, but also strengthens their morale, dealing with the attainment of school goals, working to enhance the efficiency and overall school improvement. For this presentation, I will present the major tenets from the literature that surround the notion of trust, emphasizing specifically how a particular form of trust, “relational” trust can affect a positive school climate thus making schools more efficient. Then, I will present preliminary findings from an exploratory study on the beliefs and opinions of Greek teachers and principals about trust and its effects on their work. At the moment research is in progress. Keywords: educational leadership, trust, morale, relational trust 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 24 The Contribution of a Teacher Training Module in Increasing the Effectiveness of University Students as Future Education Professionals: Studying Student- Teachers Views Angelikh Kostopoulou ak3745@otenet.gr Domna- Mika Kakana Teacher training at University level can be considered as an area of research that focuses on the skills and capabilities that future early childhood professionals need to develop in order to be effective in their duties. At the same time being an effective teacher has been linked to both classroom management and educational planning. One of the issues that affect educational planning is for student-teachers’ school placement. The purpose of the Teacher Training module is to help students utilize the experiences gained by them during their time in schools. These experiences become part of a dialogue between students, university teacher trainers, and others who participate in the delivery of the course. This presentation is part of a research that addresses the extent to which student teachers can relate the course content to what actually happens in the class. By asking students to evaluate the course in which they participate, the current study focuses on students’ views concerning their roles. Research suggests that student outcomes relate positively to teacher self-efficacy (Tschannen-Moran & Barr, 2004) The aim of this research is to discuss the views held by students on the effectiveness of a course which focuses on helping them understand all aspects of reality of their chosen profession. Questionnaires will be used as a method of data collection. Through answers given by fourth year university level students, this research aims to address the extent to which theory can be linked to practice. The results indicate that student teachers hold strong views regarding their roles and responsibilities. At the same time student teachers express their opinion on which aspects of their course find more effective. More specifically their responses indicate that attending the course has helped them to deal with classroom management issues. Finally student teachers argued that they would prefer case study analysis instead of theoretical discussions of educational issues Keywords: Early Childhood Education, Teacher Training, teacher effectiveness 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 25 Investigating Science Teachers’ Fulfillment of Expectations by the B Level ICT Based Professional Development Program Angeliki Samanta angelikisamanta@gmail.com Dimitrios Psyllos Vasilios Tsefles Modern professional development (PD) programs focus on the pedagogical exploitation of ICT and its implementation in classrooms. In Greece, teachers’ PD in ICT use is part of a nationwide program of primary and secondary teacher called B level. In the present study, we investigated science teachers’ expectations from the program and the fulfillment of those expectations after participating in it. We carried out an investigation using pre and post questionnaires (N=146) and personal interviews (Npre=20 and Npost=16). Teachers were initially asked to express their expectations from the program. Their answers were categorized in 6 categories: learning software, knowing how to create ICT activities and scenarios, personal improvement, teacher’s evaluation, interaction between co-trainers and students’ interest. 81 % of teachers expected to learn the software so as to make their teaching more attractive to their students, about 50% of them mentioned activities and scenarios and only 14% marked their personal improvement. In the interviews following the pre questionnaires, everyone suggested that they wanted to participate in this program for personal improvement and the professional evaluation credits as well. All teachers stated that they would participate in it anyway but the evaluation of their work by the authorities made it more imperative. In the post questionnaires, 79% were highly satisfied with the program, 82% mentioned that it was very interesting and 73% that the program gave them the knowledge to integrate ICT in their teaching. In the interviews following the post questionnaires, all science teachers were positive towards the program, though they pointed out that they got tired due to its long duration. In conclusion, our study showed that science teachers were willing to participate in the B level PD program and at the end their impressions were positive. It is notable that despite their tiredness, they stated that they would like to participate in a third level PD program as well. Keywords: professional development, ICT, expectations 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 26 Personality and Resilience Characteristics of Kindergarten School Principals: An Exploratory Investigation Apostolia Beka liampeka@hotmail.com Angeliki Lazaridou The present research examines personality and resilience of school principals in Kindergarten. In particular, we investigated the personality traits and resilience school principals displayed and the differentiation of sex, age and years of service in the current leader position of principals using quantitative methods. To investigate the above concepts, we used the «Τhe Big Five Inventory» (BFI) by John, Donahue & Kentle (1991) and the «Leader Resilience Profile - Revised 2015» (LRP-R) created by Patterson, Goens & Reed. A quantitative survey was used and questionnaires were sent to all school principals in the county of Magnesia. Methods of descriptive statistics for the presentation and description of numerical data as well as methods of statistical inference were used for the analysis. Keywords: personality, resilience, Kindergarten teacher 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 27 Virtual Communities of Student Teachers: Case Study Research During Practicum Apostolos Kostas apkostas@aegean.gr Alivisos Sofos In this abstract, we want to present a research effort, as part of a doctoral thesis, that focuses on the preparation phase of student teachers during their practicum placement in schools, spanned in two dimensions: (a) the educational dimension, which is related to the “emerging” professional identity and the reflection on practice for student teachers during school placement and (b) the technological dimension, which is related to the electronic Community of Teachers’ Practicum (e-CTP), as an online collaborative platform with social network characteristics, in order to support and facilitate the work and cooperation of students during this period. The main research topic, as it revealed through the literature review and led to the establishment of this research design, was the "investigation of the role of a virtual community as a means of supporting student teachers during their internship", based on two research axes with 1 st axis as the "investigation and evaluation of the contribution of e-CTP during practicum" and the 2 nd axis as the "investigation of reflection levels within students and various dimensions of their emerging professional identity, through their participation in e-CTP". Case Study was chosen, as an empirical, naturalistic educational research methodology in a specific spatial-temporal frame. The study of e-CTP is a single, holistic, instrumental and exploratory-descriptive case study, while collection and analysis of data, under this methodological approach, followed the rationale of Mixed Methods, but with emphasis on the analysis of qualitative data, using content analysis techniques on various electronic messages. The analysis and aggregation of the results showed that during the six months of internship, a “learning /developmental trajectory” was identified within the community, through which students achieved an improvement on their learning and development level, social-emotional situation and their degree of practicum’s satisfaction, while boosting their average level of reflection, beyond any difficulties that were observed, such as work overload. Moreover, the viability of Cloud-Computing services was evident, in order to support collaborative environments within teachers’ preparation institutions. Keywords: teachers’ practicum, virtual communities, web 2.0, reflection, identity Download 5.07 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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