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This qualitative study examined the connections between elementary teachers’ conceptions of how scientists use writing and how the teachers used writing during science lessons. Data collected included lesson observations, interviews, handouts to students, and curriculum resources. The findings revealed that teachers in this study thought scientists write for several purposes: the presentation of data, observations, experiences, procedures, and facts. The teachers used writing tasks that mirrored this with their students. The teachers also had a limited definition of creativity in writing, and when they had students write creatively in science it was to add in fictional elements. Implications of this study include providing teachers with better models for how and why scientists write, including these models in more inquiry-based science lessons, and directly relating concepts of nature of science to elementary science writing. 相似文献
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The roles and development needs of teachers to promote creativity: A systematic review of literature
A systematic review of 210 educational research, policy and professional literature between 2005–2011 identified only 17 publications that met the inclusion criteria and contained findings relating to teachers' roles in promoting creativity, and 18 on how teachers can be supported for this. The evidence suggests that teacher skills, attitudes, willingness to act as role model, awareness of learners' need, flexible lesson structure, particular types of classroom interaction are important for teaching for creativity. Review highlighted importance of school culture in supporting or impeding creativity, need to elicit teachers' conceptions of creativity, teachers developing their own creativity;, working co-constructively with a mentor, and the importance of action research and reflection. 相似文献
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Lin Sophie Teng 《师资教育杂志》2016,42(1):106-109
A plethora of research has found that teachers’ beliefs directly influence their classroom practices and teaching outcomes. While numerous studies in second/foreign language writing have examined the effectiveness of different innovative approaches on students’ learning to write, there is a paucity of research on writing teachers’ beliefs about these approaches and how their beliefs change in the process of their professional development. Such a lacuna becomes prominent in English as a Foreign Language contexts, especially in China, where there are numerous calls for changing the nature of classroom practices from product-focused to process- and student-centred instruction. In order to fill this gap, this brief article reports on a case study regarding changes in two Chinese English teachers’ beliefs after attending a professional development project for teaching writing. A key research question guides this study: What changes, if any, did the two teachers experience in their teaching beliefs during the project? Two writing teachers were voluntarily recruited for a case study. Findings show that the professional development project for teaching writing broadened the teachers’ understanding of different writing theories, provided a clear model of how to integrate these new approaches into regular writing courses, changed their instructional focus and shifted their perception of teachers’ roles in teaching practice. 相似文献
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Miyoung Hong Nam-Hwa Kang 《International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education》2010,8(5):821-843
This study examined science teachers’ conceptions of creativity in science education, pedagogical ideas, and contextual factors
perceived as constraints on teaching for creativity and any differences in the conceptions of teachers from South Korea and
the United States. Participants in the study consisted of 44 South Korean and 21 US secondary science teachers. Data was collected
from open-ended and Likert-type questionnaires. Results indicated that each individual teacher’s conception was considerably
limited, but the teachers’ conceptions of creativity as a whole group were consistent with the literature. In terms of teaching
methods for creativity, the teachers commonly emphasized problem-based or project-based inquiry which was consistent with
the literature. The South Korean teachers tended to consider ethics as a more important criterion for judging creativity than
the US teachers and emphasized providing thinking opportunity for fostering creativity, while the US teachers emphasized environmental
or emotional support. Possible sources of these differences were discussed. The commonly mentioned constraints included pressure
of content coverage for high-stakes tests, difficulties in assessing creativity, and class size. Suggestions for professional
development of teachers and further research questions were made based on the findings. 相似文献
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The concept of the ‘creative’ in creative writing has a vexed history. This article explores the myths surrounding creativity and how they have influenced the way teachers have approached playwriting pedagogy. It reports on research into the teaching and learning experiences of students and teachers in secondary schools, focusing on the participants’ understanding of creativity and the impact this had on the pedagogical process. The research found that a counterproductive idealist view of creativity persists in classrooms: the teachers and students were operating on a conception of creativity and creative practice that reflected a belief in a mystical and unknowable creative process. This article explores the experiences of creativity through systems theory and argues that this approach can inform teaching and learning for creative processes and products. The article concludes that the teaching and learning practices were unnecessarily tentative and that knowledge of creativity theory would improve the students’ development of both playwriting proficiency as well as creativity-relevant skills. It suggests that demystifying the creative process should result in greater student proficiency and improved teaching and learning experiences for teachers and students. 相似文献
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This study examines U.S. and Chinese teachers' constructing, knowing, and evaluating representations to teach the concept of ratio. All Chinese lesson plans are very similar with details in teaching contents and procedure. The U.S lesson plans are extremely varied although they all adopted the ‘outline and worksheet’ format. Both the Chinese and the U.S. teachers relied on concrete representations in introducing the concept of ratio, but they have very different thinking in selecting and presenting the concrete representations, as well as in the functions of the representations. The U.S. teachers are much more likely than Chinese teachers to predict drawing and guess-and-check strategies. Chinese teachers are much more likely than U.S. teachers to predict algebraic approaches. For the responses using conventional strategies, both the U.S. and Chinese teachers gave them high and almost identical scores. If a response involved a drawing or an estimate of an answer, the Chinese teachers usually gave a relatively lower score than U.S. teachers. This study contributes to our understanding about U.S. and Chinese teachers' beliefs about mathematics teaching and learning.The research discussed in this paper was supported by grants from the Spencer Foundation. Any opinions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Spencer Foundation. 相似文献
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ABSTRACTThis narrative inquiry of a lesson intended to develop perspective-taking links our understanding of teachers as curriculum makers with a sociomaterial attunement to the ways that materials, forms, and time are also actors in producing curriculum. We offer a close reading of three classroom enactments of the same lesson and discuss ways that these instances of curriculum-making expanded or diminished opportunities for elementary pupils to communicate shifts in perspective through personal narrative writing. We find temporal, spatial, and material resources, including schedules, technologies, and forms of assessment, to play key roles in shaping relations in curriculum making. 相似文献
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Fred J. J. M. Janssen Dineke E. H. Tigelaar Nico Verloop 《Journal of Science Teacher Education》2009,20(1):1-20
Teaching for understanding requires teachers to organize thought-demanding activities which continually challenge students
to apply and extend their prior knowledge. Research shows that student teachers often are unable to develop lessons in teaching
for understanding. We explored how a domain-specific heuristic can assist student biology teachers in developing problem-posing
lessons according to teaching for understanding. Worksheets of lesson plans were analyzed according to criteria for problem-posing
lessons. Furthermore, student teachers’ perceptions of the design heuristic’s usefulness were categorized in a cyclical process.
In general, the heuristic appeared helpful to most student teachers for designing problem-posing lessons satisfactory according
to the criteria. Furthermore, teachers indicated that using the heuristic deepened their subject matter knowledge and their
awareness of pupils’ prior knowledge. 相似文献
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A random sample of 1102 grade 4–6 Chinese language arts teachers in Beijing, Macao, and Taipei City were surveyed about their instructional writing practices. Seventy-eight percent (n = 857) of the teachers completed the survey. Teachers were generally positive about the usefulness of their college teacher preparation program. They slightly agreed that they liked to write, teach writing, and were effective writing teachers. Their beliefs about writing were related to the instructional practices they reportedly applied, and textbooks along with school guidelines played a prominent role in shaping their overall writing program. Teachers’ programs emphasized product-based instruction, but also placed considerable emphasis on writing process and content. They further indicated an average writing class lasted 69 min, but almost 80 % of teachers indicated they taught writing only once every 2–4 weeks, raising a concern about amount and timing of writing instruction. Consistent with social/cultural theory, Chinese writing teachers in these three urban locations evidenced differences on almost every variable studied. We expected such differences as macro-level features involving government and educational policy varied across locations. The observed differences were mostly a matter of degree (i.e., teachers applied certain practices more or less frequently) versus a more general difference in how writing was taught. 相似文献
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This paper examines the history, rationale, uses and abuses of writing journals in primary classrooms. We argue that writing journals form part of a pedagogy derived from an understanding of how children can be motivated to express themselves, independently of teachers. Moreover, they demonstrate the power of welcoming children's home cultures into the classroom. However, we also wish to argue that the use of writing journals is part of the teaching profession's ‘creative compliance’ that can still contribute to the marginalisation of effective educational practice. We document how, in some schools in England, writing journals have been reduced to token gestures towards creativity and independence and in effect collude with and support what is increasingly becoming a pedagogical hegemony. 相似文献
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《Exceptionality》2013,21(3):171-187
This study reports the results of a survey of special education teachers regarding: (a) how special education teachers organize and develop their lesson plans, (b) which lesson plan components special education teachers include in their lesson planning activities and how each component is planned, and (c) what lesson plan components special education teachers recommend that beginning teachers include in written lesson plans. As indicated by the results, the majority of the special education teachers who participated in this study did not write out lesson plans for each lesson they taught. They indicated that, even though most of the planning prior to instruction was unwritten, it was often "consciously" planned, or planning was unnecessary because the component was performed by habit or instinct. A substan- tial majority indicated that they did not use any expert's lesson planning format, such as Hunter's (1984) or a format suggested in preservice teacher training. None of the 14 components regularly included in preservice lesson plans and instructional design models were written out by a majority of the teachers; only 3 of the 14components were written out by over one third of the respondents. Conversely, this study demonstrated that, although these teachers did not write out detailed lesson plans, they strongly recommended that beginning teachers do so. All 14 components were recommended by at least one third of the respondents, with 8 recommended by a majority. Limitations, questions for future investigation, and implications for teacher preparation are discussed. 相似文献
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Winnie Wing-mui So 《Research in Science Education》1997,27(1):71-86
Advances in cognitive psychology and in research techniques have led to an increase in the acceptance of the conception of
teaching as a “thoughtful” profession. The interest and enthusiasm of researches in aspects of teacher cognition demonstrate
a shift from an emphasis on observable teacher behaviours to a focus on a teacher's unobservable thinking process. In this
study, a qualitative approach was used to uncover a teacher's thinking process during lesson planning, to depict a more holistic
view of the structural complexity of teacher cognition during lesson planning. Specialised science teachers and general teachers
who had different levels of subject expertise were studied. The teachers were interviewed on how they planned an elementary
science lesson. Interview protocols were analysed using a taxonomy which assessed the cognitive complexity of teacher thinking.
Differences were found between specialised science teachers and general teachers in the levels of structural complexity in
their thinking process. 相似文献
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王辉 《青岛职业技术学院学报》2007,20(3):44-46
本文记叙了青岛第四十一中学教学管理及校本研训过程中的实际做法,即依托大学教育资源成立教师发展学校,依托专家,进行以"一课多人上"的课堂实录为主载体的评课式研讨;以"同课异构"式的集体备课为主载体的备课式研讨;开展以读好书写随笔为主要形式的教师自我研训;以及开展以生成性问题为中心问题的"行动教学研究"等校本研训活动。并对开展校本研训取得的效果进行反思。 相似文献
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Kelley S. Regan Anya S. Evmenova Leigh Ann Kurz Melissa D. Hughes Donna Sacco Soo Y. Ahn Nichole MacVittie Kevin Good Andrea Boykin Jessica Schwartzer David S. Chirinos 《Learning disabilities research & practice》2016,31(2):113-122
Scripted lesson plans and/or professional development alone may not be sufficient to encourage teachers to reflect on the quality of their teaching and improve their teaching. One learning tool that teachers may use to improve their teaching is Lesson Study (LS). LS is a collaborative process involving educators, based on concepts of iteration and revision, to improve instruction. The initial use of an adapted version of LS referred to as a microteaching lesson study (MLS) is described in this article. Our purpose is to illustrate the process of MLS used by a group of researchers when developing lesson plans for teaching students with learning disabilities. We describe MLS, and then (1) share an application of MLS used by a research team in developing a writing intervention, and (2) discuss how the MLS format was mirrored with K‐12 teachers during professional development training. 相似文献
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The focus on standardized testing in the areas of reading and mathematics in early elementary education often minimalizes science and the arts in the curriculum. The science topics of health and nutrition were integrated into the reading curriculum through read aloud books. Inclusion of creativity skills through figural transformation drawings allowed students to display nutrition comprehension, modeling how these subject areas can fit into a narrowed curriculum. This repeated measures study examined the weekly effect of teacher lesson introduction on 19 second grade students’ (11 female, 8 male) creativity and content knowledge of nutrition under two conditions that alternated every 2 weeks over a 16-week period: a brief, positive, standard lesson introduction (control) compared to a more enhanced introduction promoting originality, risk-taking and persistence (experimental). Students listened to read-aloud books on nutrition and completed figural transformation drawings related to the stories. Findings showed that student work evidenced more creativity during the experimental condition with a very large effect size for breaking perceived boundaries; a large effect size for depicting movement in drawings; medium effect sizes for fluency, originality, storytelling articulateness, humor, wisdom, emotion, and total creative traits; and a small effect size for elaboration. Students also evidenced greater overall knowledge of health/nutrition content during the experimental condition with a small effect size. Small changes in the way a lesson was introduced had a significant impact on student knowledge and creative performance, indicating that early childhood teachers should implement similar lesson introductions to increase student creativity. 相似文献
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Ros Fisher 《Cambridge Journal of Education》2006,36(2):193-206
In the UK, teachers have moved from a process approach to the teaching of writing to a more didactic and objectives led programme. This has given rise to concerns about the suppression of creativity and enjoyment. Writing is a convention bound activity where spelling, punctuation and expectations about different text types imply a right and wrong way of writing. On the other hand, the best writers are able to use and subvert conventions in creative and individual ways. Teachers of young writers are faced with the difficulty of teaching the correct conventions at the same time as encouraging individual responses. This paper considers evidence from a small‐scale study that may shed some light on how teachers cope with these potentially opposing demands. Evidence points to teachers giving very clear guidance to pupils about what is expected of them and carefully scaffolding pupils' learning. However, scaffolding implies a stage where control is handed over to the learners and in this study there was little evidence of these teachers handing over the control. It is argued that for children to learn the conventions at the same time as developing confidence to use these conventions in individual and creative ways, this handover of control is essential. 相似文献
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通过自建语料库,以我国高考英语试卷中的某一道写作题为例,对比分析中国中学生和美国中学生的英语写作文本,研究两个群体在主语使用上的差异。研究发现:我国中学生在主语的选择上与美国中学生差异明显,过多使用人称主语,较少使用物称主语;在人称主语的使用上,我国中学生过多使用第二人称,过少使用第三人称,在物称主语的使用上,过多使用名词和代词做主语,较少使用动名词和it做主语。导致这些差异的原因主要是母语的干扰、学生对英汉之间的差异缺乏了解以及对功能词的掌握不足等。为了提高学生的英语写作能力,中学英语教师应有意识地培养学生的英汉差异意识,同时在指导学生加大英语输入强度、改进词汇和语法教学、分话题训练学生掌握多样的表达方式等方面着手,改进英语写作教学方法,提高写作教学的质量。 相似文献
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《Africa Education Review》2013,10(1):68-83
Abstract The paper reports on a study that clarifies the challenges that a teacher in Swaziland faced in using continuous assessment (CA) as a self-initiated professional development tool. Drawing mainly on post-Fordist ideals we analyse the assessment tasks she gave to learners to establish the degree of agency, reflectivity and creativity she invested in the choice, adaptation and re-design of assessment tasks that were suggested to the teachers by education authorities. Items within these tasks and how they were employed to serve the lesson objectives are drawn on to illustrate how she took advantage of the professional autonomy the CA programme afforded her to judge the appropriateness of what was officially suggested. The curriculum expertise that informed her choice of items to reinforce or remedy learning is understood in terms of how she conceptualised CA as a tool to track learners’ cognitive competence and as a resource for a self-directed professional development strategy. In conclusion, an attempt is made to provide cues for the conditions under which the self-empowering elements of CA can function to improve learning and teaching. 相似文献
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Fran Arbaugh John Lannin Dustin L. Jones Meredith Park-Rogers 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2006,9(6):517-550
In the research reported in this article, we sought to understand the instructional practices of 26 secondary teachers from one district who use a problems-based mathematics textbook series (Core-Plus). Further, we wanted to examine beliefs that may be associated with their instructional practices. After analyzing data from classroom observations, our findings indicated that the teachers’ instructional practices fell along a wide continuum of lesson implementation. Analysis of interview data suggested that teachers’ beliefs with regard to students’ ability to do mathematics were associated with their level of lesson implementation. Teachers also differed, by level of instructional practices, in their beliefs about appropriateness of the textbook series for all students. Results strongly support the need for professional development for teachers implementing a problems-based, reform mathematics curriculum. Further, findings indicate that the professional development be designed to meet the diverse nature of teacher needs. 相似文献