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- Investigation of Branch Teachers’ Perceptions and Expectations about Pre- Service Education and In-Service Training
- Institutes of Secondary Education Teachers Communication Skills
- Pre-Service Teachers’ Views about Social Research
- The Examination of Self-Directed Learning Readiness Levels and Teaching Style Preferences of Vocational High School Teachers
- Supporting Early Childhood Teachers in Science Education: Processes and outcomes
- Teacher Support for A Dialogical Education: Processes and Outcomes
- “It Works but how” The importance of Educational Robotics as a Precursor of Computational Thinking in Early Childhood Education
3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 165 Investigation of Branch Teachers’ Perceptions and Expectations about Pre- Service Education and In-Service Training Şaduman Kapusuzoğlu saduman.kapusuzoglu@hacettepe.edu.tr Habibe Öztürk Sümeyye Derin Teacher education has always been perceived as a critical area in educational systems because of the assumption that teachers have a great impact on the quality of education in schools (Goldhaber, 2007; Nye, Konstantopoulos and Hedges, 2004; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005; Rockoff, 2004; Öztürk and Yıldırım, 2014). In the case of teacher education and development context in Turkey, it can be analyzed in two dimensions; pre-service education and in-service training. Education Faculties of the universities serve for pre-service education and in- service training is carried out in educational institutions. Pre-service education was investigated in detail by Eşme (1999), Çakır (2000), Okçabol (2004), Seferoğlu (2004), Doğan (2005), Çelikten, Şanal ve Yeni (2005), Yiğit ve Alev (2005), Ekiz ve Yiğit (2006), Küçükahmet (2007), Karaca (2008), Işık, Çiltaş ve Baş (2010), Çoban (2011), Kartal (2011). In-service training was also studied by Ersoy (1996), Uşun and Cömert (2003), Öztürk and Sancak (2007), Selimoğlu and Yılmaz (2009). The main purpose of this study is to combine the two dimensions mentioned above and investigate branch teachers’ perceptions and expectations about pre-service training and in-service training. This study aimed to investigate branch teachers’ perceptions and expectations about pre-service education and in-service training with the ideas of branch teachers and to offer suggestions. For this purpose, the following questions were asked to the branch teachers: 1) What are the views of the branch teachers about pre-service education? 2) What are the expectations and suggestions of the branch teachers about pre-service education? 3) What are the views of the branch teachers about in-service training? 4) What are the expectations and suggestions of the branch teachers about in-service training? This study is a descriptive survey in which semi-structured interview form was used to investigate what branch teachers’ perceptions and expectations were about pre-service education and in-service training. Interview questions were prepared by researchers after searching the literature about pre-service education and in- service training in detail. The study was conducted in the Polatlı district of Ankara Province. Data were collected from 100 branch teachers who were selected by using purposive sampling method. The data obtained through interviews will be analyzed by the five-stage model which belongs to Strauss ve Corbin (1990; Akt. Dalgıç, Doyran ve Vatanartıran, 2012) Keywords: Teacher education, pre-service education, in-service training 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 166 Institutes of Secondary Education Teachers Communication Skills Savaş Cemal Emirler Erkan Tabancalı savasemirler@gmail.com tabancali@gmail.com The objective of this project is to determine communication skill levels of teachers working at state Anatolian high schools in the Bakırköy province of the city of Istanbul and whether these communication skills differ in terms of several variables or not. Answers to the questions below were sought in accordance with this very general objective. What is the communication level of teachers working at the state Anatolian high schools? Do communication skill levels of the teachers working at state Anatolian high school differ in terms of; gender, age, educational background, service in teaching? This project is restricted to the teachers working at the state Anatolian high schools and the scale of communication skills applied by those teachers. In this research, descriptive research method was used in order to propound communicative skills of teachers working at the state Anatolian high schools in the Bakirkoy province. The research was conducted using scanning patterns. The teachers working at the state Anatolian high schools in the Bakirkoy province of the city of Istanbul generate the universe of this research. The sample of this research was determined as the teachers working at five of the state Anatolian high schools and 109 teachers were asked to fill out the survey questionnaire. The data of the project was gathered through the “personal information form” that was generated by the researcher and “Communication Skills Inventory” improved by Ersanlı and Balcı (1998). “Communication Skills Inventory” was first developed by Balcı (1996). There were 70 items in the first version of this inventory, the validity and reliability studies of which was completed. The inventory was later applied to a sample consisting of 500 university students, as a result of the factor analysis, the number of items was reduced to 45. The inventory, the latest form of which was given by Ersanlı and Balcı, consists of 45 Likert type questions. The inventory measures communication skills in terms of cognitive, emotional and behavioral facts. There are 15 items measuring each dimension. In the research, analysis of the data gathered through data collection tools was done via the SPSS 15 packaged program. The significance level for all statistical analysis was, 05. In order to test the problem of the research and the sub- problems set in parallel with it, T-test, which is used to compare the mean of two independent groups and single sided variance analysis (ANNOVA) were used. In accordance with the objective of our research, depending on the data collected, we can point out the results as follows: Communication levels of teachers determined in the good level. No meaningful significance was determined in the mean of total points of teachers in terms of gender, age, educational background and service year or any of the sub dimensions of communication skills. Keywords: communication skills, teacher 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 167 Pre-Service Teachers’ Views about Social Research Selçuk Şimşek selcuk48@gmail.com Vesile Alkan Ali Rıza Erdem It is accepted that teachers should help students to gain research consciousness in that students will be individuals who will be investigating, discussing and producing new ideas. To do this, firstly teachers should acquire research consciousness. Teachers are introduced with basic research knowledge and skills during their schooling at Education Faculties. Therefore, pre-service teachers should have been given well-qualified training to gain main research skills during their education. One of the roles of teacher training schools is to enable pre-service teachers to learn how to investigate. Büyüköztürk (1999) suggested that there should be courses related to social research. As is known, students at faculties have been taking social research courses. It is important to see these students’ views on social research whether these courses are helpful for them to gain research skills. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate pre-service teachers’ views about social research by using their metaphors. This study investigated pre- service teachers’ opinions about scientific research, scientific thinking, researcher and social research course. Qualitative research methodology was used in this study. Purposive sampling method was used to select the sample. The data was collected with a form including open-ended questions. The data have been analyzed in terms of content analysis rules. The data analysis process is still going on. After data analysis, results and discussion will be presented. Keywords: Researching, Pre-service teachers, social research. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 168 The Examination of Self-Directed Learning Readiness Levels and Teaching Style Preferences of Vocational High School Teachers Şenay Ş.Koparan skoparan2000@yahoo.com Ersin Şahin The aim of this study is to determine self-directed learning readiness levels and teaching style preferences of vocational high school teachers. 207 teachers, including 70 females and 137 males working in a vocational high school in the Osmangazi district of Bursa Province in 2012-13 academic year, participated in the study. Self-directed Learning Readiness Scale, which was developed by Fisher et al. (2001) and adapted to the conditions of our country by Şahin and Erden (2009) with a validity and reliability study, was used in order to determine the self- directed learning readiness levels of teachers. Teaching-Styles Inventory, which was also developed by Grasha and Riechman (1996) and adapted to the conditions of our country through a reliability study by Bilgin et al. (2002), was used with a view to determine the teaching style preferences of teachers. As a result of the normal distribution of data, independent t-test was used for the comparison of two groups. For the triple group comparisons, one-way analysis of variance was used and Pearson Correlation test was used at a significant relationship level. As the result of study, it was observed that self-directed readiness levels of a large number of the vocational high school teachers were high in terms of teaching styles; the most preferred teaching styles were representative and expert teaching styles. A statistically significant difference was not noticed between the self-directed learning readiness scale scores and teaching style scores of teachers in reference to gender variable. According to the educational status of teachers, there was a significant difference at the statistical level in an authoritarian and personal model teaching style preferences in favor of post-graduates. According to the professional seniority of teachers, a statistically significant difference was observed in favor of teachers who had professional seniority at the age of 51 and over in terms of expert teaching style preferences. A significant difference at the statistical level was also determined between expert and personal model teaching style scores in favor of teachers who had professional seniority at the age of 51 and over according to the ages of teachers. In addition, it was found that there was a significant relationship between the self-directed learning readiness of teachers and authoritarian, personal model, facilitator and representative teaching styles positively in statistical way while a significant relationship was also statistically determined between the graduation status of teachers and the authoritarian and personal model teaching style preferences of them positively. Keywords: Self-directed learning readiness, teaching style preference 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 169 Supporting Early Childhood Teachers in Science Education: Processes and outcomes Sofia Avgitidou saugitidoy@uowm.gr Penelope Papadopoulou Petros Kariotoglou This paper aims to present the processes and outcomes of an one-year university–teacher collaboration to support an inquiry and science skills-based educational process for young children through a teaching learning sequence (TLS) approach. The study is made under the action "ARISTEIA II": "Science Teacher Education” which was implemented within the framework of the European Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" and co-funded by the European Union and national resources. Specifically, this research aims to highlight early childhood (EC) teachers’ initial beliefs and practices regarding science education of young children as well as their shifts and altered beliefs and practices after systematic support through theory, research and reflection tools and systematic meetings as a group of teachers and university experts within a community of practice. Five experienced EC teachers were selected as case studies to provide an in-depth account of the process and outcomes of their support within the program. Data draw from initial and reflective individual interviews, observations of their practice in three time intervals (before, during and at the end of professional support), teachers’ written reflective logs and minutes from the group meetings in the course of the year. Data analysis involved both quantitative and qualitative content analysis and grounded theory (constant comparative analysis of each teacher’s course of thought and action within the year and between different courses of thought and action within the year). The study had both a developmental and research aspect that interacted and supported each other though the three different phases of the program (initial, first phase, second phase). Thus, the data collection and analysis from each phase contributed to the design of the aims and processes for the next phase highlighting the importance of a research-based guidance of teacher education. Results show that there were gradual shifts in the understanding and practice of EC teachers regarding science as an exploratory and skills-based process. However, these shifts varied according to the initial profile of each teacher. Results will be discussed in relation to specific proposals for enhancing professional learning in science education. Keywords: teacher education, science education, early childhood education, case studies 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 170 Teacher Support for A Dialogical Education: Processes and Outcomes Sonia Likomitrou likomitrou@gmail.com Sofia Avgitidou The aim of this research is to study the processes and results of a collaborative action research project, which supported early childhood (EC) teachers to improve or change their dialogic practices during the learning process. In the frame of the collaborative action research of this study - which is described as a collective, self - reflective research (Carr & Kemmis, 1986 ∙ Kemmis & McTaggart, 1988) - the role of the teacher as researcher and reflective practitioner was supported by the facilitator (first author). Specifically, this research utilizes data from a collaborative action research, with eight EC teachers, which lasted one year and included individual interviews with EC teachers, group meetings, taped recordings of their dialogic practices, self-observations though an observation sheet and individual interviews and drawings of the children. Data analysis adopted both a) grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967, Strauss & Corbin, 1994),) based on a constant comparative analysis of data through the different cycles of action research and b) a quantitative content analysis comparing the kind of questions, feedback, pedagogical practices during dialogue based on the recorded activities of each teacher in three time intervals. Data analysis showed that the existing EC teachers’ dialogic practices connected dialogue more to the acquisition of knowledge and emphasized the rules of discussion rather than children’s participation in the construction of knowledge. The difficulties encountered at the beginning of the action research related both to their pre-existing knowledge and habitual action as well as to psychological factors (stress, fear of failure to correspond to the new challenge to work with a new and different way from what they used to). The factors, however, that led to resistance to change, decreased through systematic support processes such as enhancing reflection, the use of research tools to document practice and theoretical frameworks during group meetings and providing individual and collective support based on the analysis of recorded dialogues. EC teachers’ dialogic practices were improved in terms of decreasing closed questions with one right answer, encouraging exploratory dialogue and giving a focused feedback to children with additional questions or comments. EC teachers also repositioned themselves in terms of children’s abilities to be involved in exploratory talk and participate in decision making. Results are discussed in relation to professional learning aiming at improvement of educational work through EC teachers’ support to revisit their practices in the dialogic process in the classroom. Keywords: action research, teacher education, dialogue, early childhood education 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 171 “It Works but how?” The importance of Educational Robotics as a Precursor of Computational Thinking in Early Childhood Education Spyros Kourias kourias@uth.gr Anna Chronaki Elias Choustis Recently, the critical role of education and its impact on defining employment opportunities has been pointed out on several occasions at the European level. The teaching of mathematics, programming and science are areas that can significantly contribute to social development but it is necessary to adapt them to the demand for specific skills, beginning from the very early stages of education. Pedagogical scenarios that involve Educational Robotics have been deliberately proposed as a sound way of teaching kids maths as well as computational and analytical thinking. Building and programming a robot is a complex task, which requires not necessarily technical skills but also the ability to think at multiple levels of abstraction. The term “computational thinking” was originally coined by Jeannette Wing (2006) in order to propose a set of systematic thinking patterns and tasks in various fields of action. It can be defined as the capacity to undertake a problem-solving process using distinctive techniques, typical of computer science, among which: a) representing information through abstractions such as models and simulations; b) logically structuring and analyzing data; c) automating solutions through algorithmic thinking; d) formulating problems in a way that facilitates the use of computerized tools for their solution. These abilities are of great value not only to informatics professionals, since they actually underlie strategies for dealing with everyday life problems. Even though the term might be elusive to a wider public outside the field of computer science, it also coincides with the key elements of the epistemology of Constructivism that was developed by Jean Piaget and with its “reinvention” in Papert’s philosophy of Constructionism. From the beginnings of his research in the dues of the 60s, Papert’s orientation was towards the educational implementation of innovative tools and environments such as Logo Language and Turtle. Besides criticism, Logo gradually established itself and in the same time inspired new tools and environments such as Roamer, BeeBot, ProBot Lego WeDo/EV3, Algoblock and later on, languages such as Scratch, Blockly, Quetzal, Tern, all of which seem to enhance Computational thinking thus, the learning process in itself. In this paper, based on the rich legacy of our recent and current work with contemporary technologies in the early years, conducted within the Learning Technologies and Mathematics Education Lab (part of STeaM Lab/ECE Department/University of Thessaly), we focus on how Educational Robotics can act as a precursor of Computational Thinking and we intend to document indicative episodes. 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