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Participatory Teacher Development through Action Research
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- Teachers’ Professional Standards for Developing Education
- Teachers Perceptions Related to Their Levels of Benefit From Teacher Certificate Courses
- As a Profession Proposal: Educational Engineering
- Development and Evaluation of a 3D Virtual Environment For Teaching The Solar Systems Facts and Concepts
- Educating Reflective Practitioners in the University of Athens: Prospects and Limitations
- EFL Teacher Verbal Aggressiveness and Argumentativeness and Student Socio-Affective Strategy Use and Affective Learning: Exploring Possible Associations
- Intern’s Practicum: Creating a Collaborative Environment Alexandra Sravrianoudaki alexia_stavr89@yahoo.co.uk
Participatory Teacher Development through Action Research
Mary Koutselini edmaryk@ucy.ac.cy The underlying idea of this intervention is that Action research at schools, with the participation of school principals as pedagogical leaders, is a cornerstone for teachers’ in-service professional development. The theory-practice divide in teachers’ performance (i.e., Koutselini & Persianis, 2000) can be overcome by changing the school ethos and culture from societies of students and teachers to communities of learning, a shift which cannot be achieved unless school principals value this effort and support teachers’ professional development in the learning communities of schools. The above ideas have been implemented in the in-service training program RELEASE, which was funded by the European Committee (Project ID: EACEA-521386: Towards achieving Self-Regulated Learning as a core in teachers’ In-Service training in Cyprus). Critics of the traditional principalship (i.e., Sergiovanni, 1991) have pointed out that curriculum and instructional leadership cannot derive solely from principals, but rather emerge from both principals and teachers (i.e., Blase & Kirby, 2000) who act in communities of learning (i.e., Blase & Blase, 1999). The difficult thing about changing the concept of the leader- principal, that must upgrade teachers’ instructional ability, is the process through which this can be done. The modern approaches advocate direct teaching, modeling, measuring of results and promoting good examples as appropriate means for in-service training. Meta–modern approaches (i.e., Koutselini, 1997) transcend the depersonalization of learners and learning processes, espouse non-linear, direct instruction and give voice and space to learners to discover their needs and potential. The action research reflective paradigm of teacher development (Carr, 2004; Elliott, 1991; Koutselini, 2008, 2011) is concurrent with the meta-modern approaches especially because it gives meaning to human experiences during learning without fragmenting the experiences into useful or imposed tasks. Thus, it is considered appropriate for changing the school ethos and developing teachers’ leadership and self-regulated skills. In the RELEASE context, principals’ pedagogical leadership was cultivated as attitude, knowledge, and action during the action research cycles. In the beginning they facilitated teachers’ meetings; after two to three weeks, they started showing interest in the progress of the project and they invited the researchers and trainers to participate in common reflection with the teachers and the principal. They also asked for ‘good’ readings and other action research procedures and results, and enhanced their self-confidence in discussing and addressing pedagogical issues. The procedures and results of Action Research will be discussed. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 3 Teachers’ Professional Standards for Developing Education Pasi Reinikainen pasi@peec.gov.sa The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has participated in IEA’s TIMSS and PIRLS studies since 2007. The results of the students’ learning outcomes in KSA have shown very low efficiency for the education system. With the average investment in education, Saudi Arabian students’ learning outcomes have been among the lowest achievement amongst participating countries. Major reason for inefficiency has been identified to be dealing with the inadequacy of teachers’ professional quality. Public Education Evaluation Commission (PEEC) was established to provide information of accountability to the public and improve educational processes and outcomes. A central task of PEEC is to support educational policy-making and national development at the regional and local levels and ultimately, race the performance of teachers. As a part of its duties, PEEC is developing the education system by defining contents and standards for teachers’ and school leaders’ professions. The plan is to firstly license all newly graduated teachers accordingly to the standards that have been created according to the best national and international practices, are fully aligned with National Qualifications Framework, and are also holistic, practical most of all - achievable. Gradually teacher standards and licensing will be extended to cover experienced teachers as well. All the licensed teachers will be registered in the national database. In my speech, I will introduce you the Quality Management System of Teachers’ and School Leaders’ Professional Licensing and Registration: What has been planned: How these plans will be implemented in practice: What kind of evaluation will be carried out during and after implementation: and finally How this information will be used for improvement. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 4 Teachers' Perceptions Related to Their Levels of Benefit From Teacher Certificate Courses Abdullah Açar aabdullah.acar@gmail.com Sedat Yuksel It is thought that ideal society is utopia; but if there was a way to achieve that, it would be through education and teachers would guide in this way depending on their qualifications. At this point, teacher education steps forward as the most important determinant of teacher qualifications. During their pre-service education, teachers mostly take 3 types of courses that are general knowledge courses, area courses and teacher certificate courses (TCC). Among them TCC are to gain prospective teachers some knowledge and skills related to teaching profession. Indeed, TCC include different courses focusing on different dimensions of teaching profession, namely planning and implementing teaching - learning process, classroom management, assessment and coping with discipline problems, and aim to make teacher candidate’s sufficient in these dimensions to some degree. However, the question is if this preparation is meaningful; in other words, what teachers think about their benefits from these courses. The aim of this research is to reveal teachers’ perceptions concerning their levels of benefits from TCC in their profession. This research was designed as a case study as one of the qualitative research designs. Primary mathematics teachers were selected for the research. Study group was constituted via maximum variation sampling method. Primary mathematics teacher education programs in Turkey are divided into 3 groups according to their student acceptance grades and a 4 th group has been added inclusive programs whose medium of instruction is English. Two teachers from each group were added to study group. Data was collected via in-depth interview, made by the researchers. They used a semi structured interview form prepared by the researchers after making pre-interviews and getting peer-reviews. Inductive content analysis was chosen for data analysis. Data analysis is still in progress. Keywords: Teacher Education, Teacher Certificate Courses, Teaching Profession Courses, Teacher Education, Teacher' views 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 5 As a Profession Proposal: Educational Engineering Abdullah Elmas progelmas@gmail.com Ismail Elhakan Tomris Sayin İbrahim Yildiz At first, Romantic designers made a mention of “schools without walls” term. Today, it is talked about in several scientific areas especially due to the developments in Information and Communication Technologies. In the beginning, “Schools without walls” term was coined by people who think that schools affect students’ freedom and characters negatively. But now it is a necessity thanks to technological changes and globalization. The term contains ideas like “there is no need a physical building”, “education can be everywhere”, “communicational devices for education”, “online teaching and learning solutions” etc. As a result of developing technologies and globalization, new professions and more qualified people are needed today. The purpose of this study is to examine the educational benefits of educational engineering. While doing that it also defines the profession, its function and necessity. So, education that is one of the most important elements in development, takes a place in a fast and qualified process. For this purpose, the following questions will be answered: 1.What is the significance of digital training and smart class applications in our country and all around the world, 2.What should be the scope and limits of educational engineering profession? 3. In which areas will educational engineering profession fill the gaps? 4. What is the significance of educational engineering profession for the education in future? In our country, there are 300.00 teachers who have been waiting for appointments. Considering that, our main goal in our education system is leveling up more than contemporary civilizations. If we want that, Turkey will have an important role in the future of education, educational engineering will be one of the most important milestones in solving problems and meeting goals. This study is a mixed research which is based on document analysis and surveys. For this purpose, 20 faculty members and employers will comment on Educational Engineering and document examination using Delphi technique. The specialists whom we will choose will be come together from faculty members of related departments of universities and employers from the relevant industry. Surveys which have been created will be e-mailed to participants. Each participant will list his/her opinions about asked questions and send them back to surveyor as anonymous. In first Delphi applicant, these participants’ thoughts and opinions will be articled and if it is necessary, they will be collected as lower caps. In this way, the second Delphi survey which is formed as structuralized survey sheet will be prepared and sent to the participants. This second survey’s purpose is presenting all proficiency substances to participants. Besides, participants will clarify why they agree or do not agree in each substance briefly. Participants will point out importance degree of each substance or how much they agree with the substance on a Likert-type scale. They will write the reasons about why they agree/do not agree with each substance. They will write the reasons about whether they find the substances as important or not. In second survey, each substance’s first quarter, second quarter, median and width value will be calculated. Besides, comments which are related with agreement or importance degrees of substances will be collected in an extra sheet. Arguments and comments are also included in the form which is sent additionally with survey. In the third Delphi survey, we expect that participants will review given answers in second survey. 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 6 Participants will review analyzing their answers, comments, statements and related normal roes. Participants will compare answers in second survey with normal roes related with the group, and revise their decisions by analyzing comments about each substance. Statistics which are created in second Delphi applicant are used in third Delphi survey. We investigate if the width between quarters decreases or not. It is possible to talk about an agreement if there is a decrease in that width. Keywords: Educational Engineering, Delphi technique, vocational analysis 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 7 Development and Evaluation of a 3D Virtual Environment For Teaching The Solar System's Facts and Concepts Aikaterini Mastrokoukou k.mastrokoukou@gmail.com Emmanuel Fokides The study deals with the development and evaluation of a 3D virtual environment for teaching facts about the solar system. Many teachers have a theoretical, but not scientific, background and as a result they lack basic scientific knowledge about the solar system. This leads to misconceptions and inadequate teaching of the subject. On the other hand, the use of virtual reality applications and -in general- of 3D virtual environments in education is well established by the constructivist and socio-cultural learning theories. Taking these facts into consideration, an application was developed with a twofold purpose. The first was to study the virtual environment from a technical and utilitarian aspect. The second was to examine the degree to which the learning goals were achieved. Research data were collected evaluating the above parameters. The 3D virtual environment was developed using Open Simulator, a software platform that is based on the Second Life's technology. More specifically, a virtual world was created depicting the solar system in two levels. In the first level, there was an illustration of the solar system on a scale, while the second level provided more detailed information. Two groups of randomly selected students from the Department of Primary School Education of the University of the Aegean were formed. The application was administered to the first group. The second group had an access to online learning material, the same as in the first group. Data were collected with the use of questionnaires that studied the achievement of learning goals in both of these groups. In the first group, one more questionnaire was given for the technical and utilitarian evaluation of the application. The findings of the study were considered satisfactory. Both groups indicated progress regarding their knowledge about the solar system, but the first group of users had better results than the second that had an access only to online information. Also, most of the users of the virtual world stated that the pedagogical goals of the application were achieved and agreed that the 3D environment made the lesson more interesting and visualized situations and facts which were otherwise impossible to represent. Finally, they stated that they would use 3D virtual environments in their teaching. Keywords: virtual reality, 3D virtual environments, solar system, constructivism 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 8 Educating Reflective Practitioners in the University of Athens: Prospects and Limitations Alexandra Androusou alandr@ecd.uoa.gr Chara Kortesi-Dafermou Maria Sfyroera Vasilis Tsafos Over the past 30 years the teaching profession has embraced the notion of the teacher as 'reflective practitioner'. This has led to an increased emphasis on teacher action research and teachers’ reflecting-in-action with resultant increased respect for 'teaching tacit knowledge', “personal theory”. In this framework, in pre-service teacher education programs, students are encouraged to develop skills of inquiry and reflection (to reflect on their own theory, on their professional identity, on teaching experiences and to consider what they can do to improve all these). At the University of Athens in Faculty of Preschool education, we try help students- teachers to engender reflective practice and critical analysis of educational practice. That is to create reflective practitioners, who attempt to examine the context of the classroom, to think about a classroom problem and see it from different points of view, to attempt solutions and to seriously question the goals or values embedded in the chosen solution and to take responsibility for their own professional development. This paper presents developing strategies to assist student teachers to manage their role better as reflective practitioners. We also try to reflect upon how our reflection raised questions crucial to the educating of pre-service teachers including: How does our program try to promote to develop skills of inquiry and reflection? Does our teacher education program do enough to prepare the pre-service teacher for a reflective process of educational practice? What is the role of critical reflection in pre-service practical experience? Keywords: reflection, teacher education, student teachers as researchers 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 9 EFL Teacher Verbal Aggressiveness and Argumentativeness and Student Socio-Affective Strategy Use and Affective Learning: Exploring Possible Associations Alexandra Bekiari sandrab@pe.uth.gr Polyxeni Manoli The aim of the present study was to investigate the relations among perceived English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ verbal aggressiveness and argumentativeness and students’ socio-affective strategy use and affective learning. 148 Greek-speaking EFL undergraduate students participated in the study. The data were collected through four questionnaires: the verbal aggressiveness scale, argumentativeness scale, affective learning scale, and strategy language learning inventory. The results supported the internal consistency of the instruments. According to the results of the study, perceived EFL teachers’ verbal aggressiveness was negatively related to their argumentativeness (r=-.89) and students’ affective (r=-.89) and social strategy use (r=-.87) and affective learning in terms of the content of the lesson (r=-.69), their course behavior (r=-.82) and teacher behavior (r=-.86). In the light of the aforementioned findings, it can be concluded that teachers’ verbal aggressiveness can have a negative impact on students’ feelings, which can, in turn, affect their learning process. Additionally, the findings suggested that teachers should promote argumentativeness and social- affective strategy use aiming at their students’ satisfaction and learning allowing for the contribution of teacher behavior to student language learning. Thus, the results of the study highlight the demand for improvement in teacher education and training (both pre-service and in-service educators) in order to respond to a challenging and constantly changing field. Keywords: EFL learning and teaching; Teacher verbal aggressiveness; Teacher argumentativeness; Student socio-affective strategy use; Student affective learning 3 rd ISNITE 2015 International Symposium’ ‘New Issues on Teacher Education’ ‘September 11-13, 2015, University of Thessaly, Volos-Greece 10 Intern’s Practicum: Creating a Collaborative Environment Alexandra Sravrianoudaki alexia_stavr89@yahoo.co.uk Nowadays, the teacher’s profession has become more complicated and difficult. New technologies, consequences of globalization and diverse student’s population increase differentiate the job’s requirements. Thus, it’s high time for a general differentiation in teacher’s education, which enables them to respond to these new demands. During this literature review, the most innovative teacher’s education perceptions like the triad model and other co-teaching methods are represented which materialize the collaboration between the experienced cooperative teachers and the pioneer pre-service teachers (Goodnough et al., 2009). In this study, I have also profiled the most significant factors which are able to contribute to teacher’s education improvement, specifically during the faculty’s practicum. One component, critical to the success of the internal experience which will be mentioned, is the cooperating teacher. In order to teach students to learn, cooperating teachers should try to offer courses in supervision, expand the role of the mentor and extend the practicum (Graham, 2006). Specifically, nowadays cooperating teachers should not be just instructors and learners, but interact with the students. Hence, they evaluate their pedagogical approaches and strategies against newer and alternative methods suggested by the interns. Additionally students should have the opportunity to hear about teacher’s experiences in order to deepen their understanding of the complexity of teaching and of ethical decisions teachers make when they choose particular curriculum goals and assessment strategies (Grahan, 2006). This survey also focuses on the circumstances which are demanded to make the practicum a process of learning which teach not only the interns but the cooperating teachers as a multidimensional and recursive phenomenon. Moreover, it underlines the main factors which defeat this process and foster the lineal transaction between teachers and students. Nowadays a lot of cooperating teachers use to act like Maestros and dominants. They seek to dominate the classroom and the interns and they focus on the surface of education and observable aspects of teaching. It goes without saying that in this climate of accountability and high stakes testing, it is very difficult to create new structures and transform norms of interaction between schools and Universities. Apart from the cooperating teachers, the study examines the role of educational administrators whose beliefs and behavior tend to be a central problem for the interns preparation (Montecinos et al., 2015). Keywords: Pre-service Teachers, cooperating teacher, new demands, complexity of teaching, interaction between schools and Universities, triad model, co-teaching methods. Download 5.07 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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