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- Citizenship Education in the Social Studies Teacher Education Program in Turkey
- The Effect of Communication Abilities of School Administrators to Teacher’s Job Satisfaction
- Secondary School Students and Teachers’ Metaphorical Perceptions about Learning and Teaching Concepts
- Using Web2.0 Technologies for Dissemination on Entrepreneurship
- Teachers Use of Reflective Journal Writing Within a Physical Education Teaching Project
- Designing Professional Learning Opportunities for In-Service Physical Education Teachers
3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 28 Citizenship Education in the Social Studies Teacher Education Program in Turkey Arife Figen Ersoy arifee@anadolu.edu.tr At the present time, citizenship competencies are closely related to the development level of countries. Therefore, citizenship education is becoming increasingly more important in the agenda of education. In order to provide effective citizenship education, teachers should have sufficient professional competencies. Teachers must be graduated as competent teachers about efficient citizenship competencies and how to provide citizenship education before employment. Social studies course has a particular importance for citizenship education in Turkey. It is because the aim of primary education social studies is raising effective and democratic citizens. Power, Governing and within the scope of learning domain, democracy and other governing regimes, human rights and responsibilities are taught at social studies education in primary school curriculum. For this reason, social studies teachers have an important role in effective citizenship education. It is essential that the citizenship education competences of social studies teacher candidates should be enhanced in the undergraduate period. In the present study, social studies teacher education program, lessons and its contents were examined with regards to citizenship education. This research was designed as a case study in the qualitative approach. The contents of courses which are in the social studies teacher education programs were examined and analyzed. Research results shows that the teacher candidates generally don’t have lessons for directly oriented to the citizenship education and they gain the other major area courses, general knowledge lessons and limited citizenship knowledge. Introduction of political science, citizenship knowledge, human rights and democracy, present world problems and community service experiences lessons contribute to improving the citizenship of teacher candidates. It is understood that with regards to citizenship education, special teaching methods I-II lesson focuses on social studies education and it is not satisfactory to gain citizenship education competences. Courses like effective citizenship education, moral education at social studies, disputable current issues education and digital citizenship education are taught only in a few universities in Turkey. As a result, the citizenship competence and citizenship education competences are improved at a limited level. In order to improve the competences of teacher candidates, the courses including citizenship democracy and human rights education should take in social studies teacher education program. Quantitative and qualitative researches which examine the citizenship competences and citizenship education competences can be done. Keywords: Citizenship education, teacher education, social sciences, teacher candidates 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 29 The Effect of Communication Abilities of School Administrators to Teacher’s Job Satisfaction Arzu Eker arzu_dilek_@hotmail.com Türkay Nuri Tok This study is being made in the light of thinking that organizational communication which ensures the wellbeing of administrative processes has an effect on teachers’ profession satisfaction. Administers are as successful according to the abilities to use their communicational skills. It is directly proportional that an administrator’s communication skills and fulfilling school’s goal by determining goals clearly, and then telling these goals to organization members to make people around them work according to those goals. For this reason, communication skills, one of the personal skills of school administrators, is very important to determine school’s communication process. Communication is one of the primes on a school’s success or failure. It is because in a school with a principle with good communication skills, teachers are expected to be highly satisfied with their professions. Job satisfaction is an employee’s contentment and positive attitudes toward one’s business life, or harmony between conditions provided by one’s work place and oneself. This research is made for importance of communication and administer’s communication abilities effect on teacher’s job satisfaction. For using scales that included personal and organizational variables, the database group of the research comprises primary teachers worked in the Pamukkale town of Denizli province in between 2014–2015. School manager’s communication abilities were examined the relation of teachers’ gender, education, branch and seniority. In the first part of the database that was used in this study personal information form. In the second part communication abilities scale’s by Celep (2000) are used; this scale has for subtitles 4 in factor analysis. Job satisfaction questionnaire is used in job inform scale which was developed by Hackman and Oldham (1980) identify the effect of administers communication abilities on teacher’s job satisfaction. Now the research is in the process of collecting data. The analysis of the study is still in progress. Therefore, the finding, results and discussion sections haven’t been completed yet. This research administrator’s communication abilities effect on teacher’s job satisfaction as the aim is to understand and to find out whether these factors of organizational communication have a relationship with job satisfaction or not. Some of teacher's personal information (gender, educational level, branch and seniority) will be used to test if there is a significant difference based on the perception of the teacher’s job satisfaction. The data will be analyzed after being collected. SPSS (The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) will be used as the statistical software for the quantitative analysis and the level of significance is set at .05 for the analyses to interpret the results. To analyze the data, two statistical analysis methods will be utilized: (a) the descriptive statistical method is simply to illustrate what is going on with current data and (b) the inferential statistical method is used to make inferences from data to more general conditions. A multiple regression analysis enables the researcher to examine how effectively one or more independent variables allows one to predict the value of dependent variables. More specifically, the researcher used multiple regression analyses to determine how well each dimension of organizational communication was able to predict each type of personnel job satisfaction and to determine 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 30 which organizational communication dimension(s) would be significant predictor(s) of the organizational outcomes when controlling for demographic variables. First, the frequency analysis of the personal features is examined. Statistical analyses of the research will be done to investigate the relationship between relationship management factors and the employee satisfaction and the personal factors such as gender, branch, seniority, education level. After defining the factors and testing the reliability of the data, correlation and regression analyses will be implement to find out the relationship of the manager's communication abilities to teacher's job satisfaction. Finally independent t-test, ANOVA analyses will also be implement to find out whether there are gender, education, branch and seniority differences on teacher’s perceptions of the manager's communication abilities. Keywords: communication, organizational communication, satisfaction, job satisfaction, school administer, primary teacher. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 31 Secondary School Students and Teachers’ Metaphorical Perceptions about Learning and Teaching Concepts Asiye Toker-Gökçe asitoker@gmail.com Özlem Ural İbrahim Aydemir Zehra Öztoprak-Kavak Learning is a change in students’ behavior throughout the process of communication. Being able to teach something to the students is related to the communication between two sides; teachers and students. Purpose of this study is to explore perceptions of secondary school students’ and teachers’ about learning and teaching concepts. In this context, metaphorical perceptions of students’ about being a student and learning and metaphorical perceptions of teachers’ about being a teacher and teaching were examined. Metaphor means that different things are compared from different reasons. If a metaphor is well enough, not only it helps the ideas to bring about but also makes them more understandable and clearer (Çelikten, 2006). Metaphor as it’s more than a rhetoric ornamenting the ideas, it’s a style of seeing and thinking the world (Morgan, 1998). Lakoff & Johnson (1980) defines metaphors in three dimensions. One of them is that metaphor is not only a matter of words but also a matter of the relation between thought and action. Second dimension is about the conceptual system of our thought and action’s being fundamentally in nature. In defining our everyday realities, our conceptual system’s role is important in terms of structuring these realities between our perceptions and other people. In this research, purposive sampling was used. Yıldırım & Şimşek (2008:107) admitted that purposive sampling could make the researcher study the situations, being thought to have productive information, deeply. In this context purposive sampling method is useful for most of the situations in terms of exploring and explaining the facts and phenomena. The research group constituted 55 students who were studying at 8 th grade, and 8 teachers teaching in those classes in Kocaeli, a big industrial city in Turkey. This research was implemented in the qualitative model. The data were obtained by a semi structured information form developed by the researchers. While analyzing 7 students’ forms were not appropriate in explaining the metaphor, they were omitted. Thus the research group constituted 48 students and 8 branch teachers. Two forms were developed to get information from teachers and students. In these forms the questions "(1) Being a student is like / or it resembles ……………….. Because …. (2) Learning something in this classroom is like ….. Because … “were asked to the students to complete; and the questions "(1) Being a teacher is like /or it resembles ….. Because …, (2) “Teaching something in this classroom is like…” were asked to the teachers to complete. The data were analyzed through descriptive statistics. The data were grouped according to the explanations given to the metaphors. 9 categories were about students’ being student in that classroom and 5 categories were about learning in that classroom; 3 categories were about teachers’ being teacher in that classroom and 4 categories about teaching in that classroom. This study finished with discussion. Keywords: Teacher, Student, Metaphor, teaching metaphors, learning metaphors, secondary school, Turkey 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 32 Using Web2.0 Technologies for Dissemination on Entrepreneurship Aspa Lekka aspalekka@hotmail.gr Konstantina Karameri Athanasios Sypsas Rozita Tsoni Jenny Pange Young adults in Europe are mainly affected by the increase of unemployment. Additionally, the economic crisis of 2008 revealed the lack of information on entrepreneurship. Thus, a large number of actions affecting the youth entrepreneurship are implemented in different levels of education from primary school to lifelong learning. Since, according to recent studies, entrepreneurship is primary an innovative operation, entrepreneurship education should involve learning-by-doing activities and experimental methodologies. Research studies revealed that young people used in their everyday life Web 2.0 services, like social networks, blogs and wikis. The Web 2.0 technologies use, facilitate interaction, communication and collaboration. Furthermore, using these technologies (social networks, wikis, blogs, webinars), teachers and learners can interact and collaborate one by one or even several at a time. Also, the aforementioned technologies motivate users to participate actively. Entrepreneurship education empowers students to set up their own businesses in order to overcome the unemployment. By using Web 2.0 technologies, people who succeed in different types of business may transfer experiences and good practices to young entrepreneurs. Especially, LinkedIn is the main one. As of June 2013, the social network LinkedIn reports more than 259 million users in more than 200 countries and territories. This social network can be used for professional networking. Another application of Web2.0 is Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOCs concerning entrepreneurship facilitate the free transfer of knowledge over the Internet, overtaking the boundaries of traditional teacher based learning. Game Based Learning (GBL) could be adopted in the conventional MOOC environments in order to overcome the lecture-based approaches. Thus, students through GBL develop their practical abilities and knowledge, such the entrepreneurship abilities. For the purpose of this study different tools were used. Firstly, a group named “Entrepreneurship Topics, Laboratory NT & DL UoI” was created in social network LinkedIn to help students in entrepreneurship social networking. Secondly, a wiki for undergraduate students at the Laboratory of New Technologies and Distance Learning in University of Ioannina was created and supported. In this wiki undergraduate students posted questions, were involved in discussions, and got advices on entrepreneurship issues. Moreover, a series of Webinars is planned for next semester in order to present the future trends in entrepreneurship education. Keywords: Web 2.0 technologies, Entrepreneurship education, Game Based Learning, MOOC 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 33 Teachers' Use of Reflective Journal Writing Within a Physical Education Teaching Project Aspasia Dania adania@phed.uoa.gr Bakali Alexandra Marathou Matina Mikeli Penelope Teaching is a non-linear process of decision making, curriculum planning and knowledge implementation. The extent to which teaching will have a positive impact on student progress and learning depends on the teacher’s ability to reflect on and about his practice. Reflection is a form of experiential learning which supports the development of new knowledge about practice and promotes change and effectiveness (Schön, 1983). As a means of encouraging and documenting teacher reflection, journal writing has gained great attention, with research providing variable results according to the each case pursued objectives. Based on the above, the aim of the present study is to explore the use of journal writing both as a vehicle for teacher reflection and as a research tool documenting teachers’ progress within the context of a Physical Education (PE) case study project. Three female PE primary school teachers with more than eight years of experience participated in the research and were trained to use the “Teaching Games for Understanding” (TGfU) model. TGfU is a student centered curriculum model emphasizing the cooperative learning and tactical game performance. During a period of six weeks, each teacher was responsible for designing and implementing in her class 24 consecutive PE units, divided in three separate categories: Target, Net and Invasion Games (eight units per category). Following every unit’s implementation, each teacher had to complete her own journal within 24 hours, according to previously given guidelines which corresponded to TGfU theoretical principles. Journal entries were analyzed according to three levels of reflectivity (technical rationality, practical action, critical reflection), to determine the extent of reflection achieved by the three PE teachers. Thematically relevant post interview data were analyzed to examine teachers' perceptions about the use of journals as means of knowledge acquisition and development. Interview and journal data were transcribed and analyzed. Results show that throughout the research, journal entries have moved from a technical to a more reflective focus. This developmental trend was different for each of the three PE teachers, since one of them incorporated more moral and ethical considerations within her writings. PE teachers valued journal writing as an effective professional and emotional feedback “partner” that encouraged their reflective thinking and pedagogical content knowledge attainment. Despite being a case study project, this research gives further evidence regarding the use of reflective writing as an effective medium of PE teachers’ professional stance development. Keywords: Physical education teachers, reflection, journal writing, teaching games for understanding 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 34 Designing Professional Learning Opportunities for In-Service Physical Education Teachers Aspasia Dania adania@phed.uoa.gr Irene Kossiva Constantinos Chatoupis Katerina Zounhia Physical Education (PE) curricula are nowadays designed with a focus on holistic learning, critical thinking and interpersonal skills. Whether or not PE teachers will manage to promote the aforementioned learning objectives depends both on their educational beliefs and on the opportunities they have for professional development (Ha et al., 2008). However, research shows that professional development programs either focus on the demonstration of decontextualized PE teaching routines or provide sterile theoretical knowledge hardly applicable in practice (Armour & Yelling, 2007). Based on the above, the aim of this paper is the presentation of a three stage professional development program designed for the demands of an action research project focusing on the improvement of PE teaching within a primary school in Piraeus-Greece. The program’s core characteristic was the adoption of the “Teaching Games for Understanding” (TGfU) model for the design of developmentally appropriate PE units. As a curriculum model, TGfU promotes the development of tactical knowledge and learning transfer within games that enhance group work and decision making. Three female PE teachers with different professional backgrounds took part in the program, each being responsible for a different primary class. Initially, the teachers were introduced to the philosophy of the TGfU model and they were given guidelines regarding its implementation. Afterwards, each PE teacher had to design eight consecutive PE units for each of the three TGfU categories (Target, Net and Invasion Games), according to their students’ profile. For every unit, each teacher received feedback regarding its unity with the TGfU framework, together with possible alternative suggestions per lesson activity. After each unit was revised, it was applied in practice and teachers’ journals were kept. Three times during this stage representative game lessons were video-recorded and evaluated in common according to a specially devised observation instrument. At the end of the program, reflection-based group discussions and individual interviews were carried out focusing on the teachers’ perceptions regarding the implementation of the model. An initial overview of the program’s structure proves that the PE teachers value “hands-on” professional learning opportunities that focus on content sharing and pedagogy reflection. The intimate worth of such opportunities lies both in their collaborative nature and their constructivist oriented philosophy, which views knowledge construction as the result of the teacher’s creative interaction with the context of action. In the long run, such claims remain to be confirmed through the qualitative analysis of the action research data. Keywords: Professional development, Physical Education teachers, Teaching Games for Understanding 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 35 Download 5.07 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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